Mayhem broke out in Parkwood on Tuesday as residents clashed with law enforcement officials attempting to dismantle illegal structures in the area. Residents burnt tyres and threw stones in protest, as the City of Cape Town’s Anti-Land Invasion Unit (ALIU) swooped into the area to demolish the 63 structures, unoccupied[…]
The planning and management of this year’s hajj will be discussed when the South African Hajj and Umrah Council (Sahuc) hosts its annual roadshow in Cape Town. Sahuc’s roadshow will be directed toward creating awareness within communities about the various processes and structures of accreditation. A public notice will be[…]
Recent social media posts in which individuals openly express their feelings toward another race has spurred government on in resolving suppressed interracial conflict. The matter appears to be spiralling out of control as more people consume themselves in conversation on the topic. As a means to seek mechanisms to resolve[…]
Zephany Nurse’s mother broke down as she detailed the disbelief she felt when her newborn daughter was snatched from the crib at her hospital bedside almost 19 years ago. Celeste Nurse was the first witness to take the stand in the Western Cape High Court against a 50-year-old Lavender Hill[…]
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan should ban e-tolls, refrain from hiking VAT and avoid privatisation of Eskom and other state-owned entities, trade federation Cosatu said on Tuesday in a comprehensive statement tabling its budget speech expectations. South Africa cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the European Union, whose austerity approach[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir must serve an effective 35 years imprisonment‚ the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled on Tuesday. In August‚ Judge Colin Lamont convicted Krejcir and his co-accused – businessman Desai Lupondo‚ taxi boss Siboniso Miya and former Hawks Warrant Officers Samuel “Saddam” Maruping‚ Jeff Nthoroane and[…]
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has found that the South African Post Office’s procurement of its headquarters in Centurion‚ Pretoria‚ was not fair, transparent‚ or cost effective. The Protector’s report also revealed that R2.7 billion was spent on procuring labour brokers‚ some of whom were improperly employed without contracts. Madonsela bluntly[…]
He made the announcement following talks with UN chief Ban Ki-moon in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura. About 400 people have been killed and 250,000 have fled to neighbouring states since Mr Nkurunziza announced in April that he would seek a third term. He survived a coup attempt in May, and won[…]
Chinese Foreign Ministry has argued that its strengthening defenses on South China Sea islands is similar to the US deployments in Hawaii, telling Washington to stay away from the territorial dispute. “There is no difference between China’s deployment of necessary national defense facilities on its own territory and the defense[…]
Syria’s government has said it will accept a halt to “combat operations”, after the US and Russia agreed on a plan for the cessation of hostilities to begin this weekend. Several parties to the conflict, however, were sceptical that any peace deal would actually take effect. In a statement on[…]
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