Palestinian journalist Muhammad al-Qiq, who has been on hunger strike in Israeli jail for 61 days, is on brink of death, the journalist’s lawyer told Ma’an. After a visit with al-Qiq on Monday, Ashraf Abu Sneina, a lawyer from the Palestinian Authority’s commission of detainees and ex-detainee affairs, said al-Qiq[…]
Patricia de Lille is the DA’s mayoral candidate for the City of Cape Town for another term. Party leader Mmusi Maimane announced her candidacy on Monday. She was one of five party members nominated to stand for the position. The others were Guy Andrews, Daniel Jacobs, Peter Meakin and Ursula[…]
The DA in the Western Cape needs to scrutinise the pasts of all its white members, the ANC in the province believes. “The DA is consciously and intentionally choosing to evade scrutiny of its white members because they fear what they may find out,” provincial ANC spokesperson Yonela Diko said[…]
The man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend’s 7-month-old baby made a brief appearance in the Athlone Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Zukile Nakupi was arrested on Thursday. He allegedly flung Inganathi Mnandi against the ceiling, walls and prepaid electricity meter of her mother’s Philippi home last Monday. The couple allegedly started[…]
The State has filed an affidavit to oppose Oscar Pistorius’s bid to appeal his conviction of murder with the Consitutional Court, eNCA reports.According to eNCA, the State said that it was in the interests of justice that Pistorius be sentenced on the crime he has committed, and that Pistorius does[…]
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani flew into Italy on Monday looking to reap the economic and political dividends from the lifting of international sanctions imposed over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme. Rouhani will also visit the Vatican and France on his first overseas trip since the nuclear deal came into force[…]
The City of Cape Town is expected to furnish more than 24 clinics in key areas across the city with its FreeCall Line (FCL) system, which will allow members of the public to raise pertinent issues and concerns around service delivery with the City. The FCLs will provide a direct[…]
The committee and imamat of Masjid al-Quds have taken the decision to hold a ‘prayer for rain’ this coming Sunday, in the hopes of bringing relief in the midst of the country’s worst droughts in decades. While relief efforts have been conducted in problem areas by a number of groupings[…]
A charred body was found in a train after blaze at Fish Hoek railway station on Thursday. Metrorail Western Cape confirmed that two carriages of the train caught alight around 10am Thursday morning. No injuries were initially reported and all commuters were safely evacuated from the train. However, a body[…]
The ANC’s Western Cape leaders led a march organised by the youth league against racism in Cape Town on Friday. The Youth League said that it wants to highlight its rejection of what it calls racist utterances and attacks on black people. Mohammed Khalid Sayed, provincial chairperson of the ANCYL[…]
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