A 58-year-old woman from Despatch near Port Elizabeth will be paid more than R800 000 in damages from the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality after she was seriously injured in March 2013 when she fell into a manhole. An order was made in the Port Elizabeth High court on Friday after[…]
Humanitarian aid has reached the besieged area of Yarmouk in Syria. At least 100 trucks filled with supplies rolled out of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday afternoon. The United Nations confirmed that a task force seeking humanitarian access throughout the conflict-torn country is scheduled to meet. Speaking to VOC[…]
The Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) has expressed its satisfaction that the South African government has been forced to postpone the implementation of tax laws of the Pension Fund. Cosatu Western Cape’s Mike Louw says it is a victory and as a result it will be cancelling plans[…]
As the voices of discontent grows against the visit of Shimon Peres, a group of South African Jews opposed to the Israeli apartheid regime plan to stage a protest outside an event the former prime minister is expected to address. The 92 year old Israeli statesman will be in Johannesburg[…]
A group of University of Cape Town (UCT) students and supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall movement laid charges against vice chancellor Max Price on Thursday. Western Cape police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut confirmed that charges of assault, malicious damage to property and intimidation were laid at Rondebosch police station.[…]
The Israeli police briefly detained Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth and reporter Sufian Taha on Tuesday afternoon. The two journalists, who have government-issued press cards, were detained while interviewing residents of the Old City at the Damascus gate, in East Jerusalem. They were reporting on the recent wave[…]
A member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party has accused the military of atrocities in Turkey’s southeast, claiming they have ‘burned alive’ more than 150 people trapped in basements. “In the Cizre district of Sırnak, around 150 people have been burned alive in different buildings by[…]
Three months after he was appointed minister of mineral resources, Mosebenzi Zwane helped the Gupta family acquire Glencore’s [JSE:GLN] Optimum colliery. Now it has emerged that his political adviser has a business connection with the Guptas, close friends of President Jacob Zuma. After Zuma promoted Zwane from provincial politics to[…]
Following allegations by an anti-crime body that racism is hampering policing, a police union says white cops should be deployed to Manenberg police station. On Thursday, the Daily Voice reported that Manenberg Community Policing Forum (CPF) chairman Kader Jacobs believes the predominantly coloured community has rejected black cops in the[…]
The government has put the brakes on retirement tax reforms for two years, but Cosatu is going ahead with mass action because it fears the ANC made the concession only as an election ploy. Cosatu was unhappy with the reforms taking away workers’ right to choose whether to withdraw their[…]
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