The restitution process in District Six has proven among the most complex claims to settle. So said Minster of Rural development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti, addressing former residents on Thursday at an event to mark the 50th anniversary of the declaration of District Six as a white group area.[…]
The Saartjie Baartman Centre for Abused Woman and Children have expressed their dire concern at the number of increased risk of HIV infection in relation to intimate partner violence. There will be increased awareness of this issue in STI and Condom Week, which runs from the 10th until the 16th[…]
There have been numerous reports about people not having access to the internet at the Hanover Park Library, this being due to the theft of telephone cables. The theft of cables has proven to be problematic for residents who need the resources in order to search for employment, research assignments[…]
Despite scathing criticism by opposition parties that this year’s State of the Nation Addess (SONA) failed to impress, one political analyst believes President Jacob Zuma has been frank about the economic challenges facing the country. According to political analyst Abdul Waheed Patel, based on consultations between big business, the Minister[…]
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was not immune from arrest when he was in South Africa last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein heard on Friday. The State wants the SCA to overturn a ruling by the High Court in Pretoria that the government’s failure to arrest him[…]
A platinum miner in Limpopo was killed after the brakes failed on a utility vehicle she was in at the Atlatsa Resources Bokoni mine near Burgersfort. This is the second death at the mine in 30 days. Ramadimetja Degrecia Phaladi died at the Brakfontein shaft earlier in the week. The[…]
The EFF’s statements about the Gupta brothers and their employees were not merely part of its campaigning for the upcoming elections, but actual threats of violence, the High Court in Pretoria has found. Judge Johan Louw on Friday handed down reasons for the interdict he granted on Tuesday to stop[…]
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death at a Cape Flats school, allegedly by a fellow pupil. Carlo Basson, a Grade 11 pupil at Scottsdene High School in Kraaifontein, was stabbed through the heart and passed away at the tap where he had his last drink of water. Police have[…]
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the deployment of foreign ground troops in the Syrian conflict could result in a world war. Medvedev was quoted as saying in an interview published late on Thursday by the German newspaper Handelsblatt that “a ground operation draws everyone taking part in[…]
Police in Athens have used tear gas to disperse a rally of farmers protesting pension austerity measures as they pelted the Agriculture Ministry with stones. A larger protest demonstration is due to start later Friday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s formerly left-wing government plans to raise pension contributions and taxes to[…]
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