The University of the Western Cape has obtained a court order preventing a group of protesting workers and about 50 students supporting their cause from disrupting campus operations, its executive management said on Wednesday. “The court order authorises and directs the police to intervene and assist the university. [It] has[…]
The SA Zionist Federation (SAZF) has expressed its outrage at moves to arrest Shimon Peres when he arrives in South Africa this week. The former Israeli prime minister will be in the country this weekend for a fundraising dinner hosted by the Zionist lobby. Palestinian solidarity groups in South Africa[…]
Parkwood residents who erected illegal structures on private land have acted out of “frustration” due to housing bureaucracy. So says, Grassy Park Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairperson, Rev Phillip Bam, following violent clashes in Parkwood late yesterday afternoon as residents confronted law enforcement officers who were instructed to demolish illegally[…]
The Right to Know campaign (R2K) is petitioning against the proposed changes to the Film and Publication Amendment Bill, tabled in parliament on Tuesday. R2K’s national spokesperson, Murray Hunter, said the bill “raises real questions about what our government can regulate.” R2K have launched the #HandsOffOurInternet campaign, in response to[…]
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2016 budget speech was devoid of surprises, and also – rather sadly – lacking in much of the detail that South Africans had hoped for. Following President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address earlier this month, South Africans have been eagerly awaiting details as to[…]
A Swedish teenager has described how she found herself living in Mosul under the rule of the Islamic State group after an odyssey of train and road trips from her home town with her boyfriend. Marlin Stivani Nivarlain, 15, was rescued from the northern Iraqi city earlier this month by[…]
Cologne police have reportedly launched an investigation into the cops who leaked internal reports of mass harassment and sex assaults on New Year’s Eve to the media. The press only learned about the outrageous attacks four days after the incidents. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, police recently launched an investigation to[…]
At least three people have died in severe weather in the southern states of the United States, where tornadoes, damaging hail and flash floods left a swath of destruction. Tornadoes churned across many states, from Louisiana to Georgia, but the most destructive were in Louisiana and Mississippi. More than 30[…]
Syria’s president has assured Russia of his readiness to respect a ceasefire deal brokered by Moscow and Washington, the Kremlin said. “A phone call took place between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad,” the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday. “In particular,[…]
South Africa faced criticism from Amnesty International over last year’s xenophobic attacks, the way government dealt with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, different scandals in state institutions, and excessive use of force by police. “Torture and other ill-treatment and excessive use of force by police continued, although some measure of accountability[…]
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