The Elsie River Community Policing Forum (CPF) has slammed media reports on gang violence in the area as “distorted”, after a temporary diversion of patients to the Tygerberg Hospital and Delft Day Hospital. On Monday, the Western Cape Emergency Medical Service (EMS) temporarily suspended the transportation of patients to the[…]
Hundreds of residents from Lavender Hill paid their respect at the janazah of 19 year old, Shafeeqa Kiel on Monday. The community stood together as they mourned the death of the latest victim of gang shooting in the area. Kiel and a close friend got caught in a gang crossfire on[…]
Mos Def’s application for his family to stay in the country while he faces charges of contravening the Immigration Act will be decided on in two weeks. ‘Let Mos Def leave this mess behind’ ‘Let Mos Def leave this mess behind’ Home affairs defends arresting Mos Def over ‘world passport’ […]
The Israeli Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Thursday at 3:30 p.m for the case of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoner Muhammad al-Qiq, the Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs said Monday. Al-Qiq, a 33-year-old journalist from the occupied West Bank and father of two, has been on hunger strike for[…]
Israeli forces on Monday night ended a military blockade of the occupied West Bank hub of Ramallah, put in place following a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian Authority police officer on Israeli soldiers in the area. Director of the PA’s military liaison office, Jihad al-Jayyusi, told Ma’an that[…]
Brasilia has warned pregnant women not to take the risk of traveling to the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Both Brazil and the IOC have welcomed a move by the WHO to declare a health emergency over the Zika virus. As the International Olympic Committee (IOC) welcomed measures taken to[…]
The Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will not be cancelled and the mosquito-borne virus will not affect the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said. Speaking in Los Angeles on Monday, IOC President Thomas Bach expressed confidence that there will be good conditions for athletes and spectators at the Rio[…]
South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan met with top business leaders last Friday to discuss steps to boost investor support and avert a credit rating downgrade sparked by SA domestic challenges. About 60 chief executive officers representing industries ranging from banking to mining met with Gordhan for two-and-a-half hours at Nedbank’s offices in[…]
One of South Africa’s most senior prosecutors, advocate Willie Hofmeyr, has declared war on his latest boss, Shaun Abrahams, accusing him of misleading the court, sidelining him and aligning himself with a “systematic pattern of improperly protecting” his controversial colleague Nomgcobo Jiba. Hofmeyr, who until last year headed the successful[…]
President Jacob Zuma jetted straight into Cape Town after attending the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to rein in the party’s embattled leadership in the province, announcing that a trio of “interim caretakers” will be deployed to run the party’s affairs. The ANC in the province has been plagued[…]
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