The ANC Women’s League has pledged to support the woman who lodged a complaint of sexual harassment against the party’s Western Cape chairperson Marius Fransman. “The ANCWL has always been firm that it stands with the victim,” spokesperson Toko Xasa said in a statement on Friday night. The league would[…]
Mexico recaptured the world’s top drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Friday, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in a boost for the beleaguered government. The head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel was captured in[…]
Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded two Austrians and a Swede at a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada, the interior ministry has said. Security forces opened fire at the two assailants on Friday, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to a ministry statement. It[…]
Israeli forces on Saturday shot and killed two Palestinian men at the al-Hamra military checkpoint in the northern Jordan Valley, witnesses said. Witnesses told Ma’an that the two men were stopped at the checkpoint — also known as Beqaot — and asked by military forces to exit their vehicle, at[…]
A local attorney has pinned the recent wave of racism scandals on a lack of understanding as to how freedom of speech is governed as per the South African Constitution. Local media has been awash with reports of incidents where citizens, including these within positions of prominence, have made questionable[…]
With the backdrop of the weak Chinese and recovering U.S. markets, South Africans may have to get use to the idea of their own currency’s strength declining further during the course of 2016. The rand fell to a new low earlier this week when it dropped more than 1% to[…]
Has the firearms control act succeeded in bringing down lives lost to gun violence? As the race issue took centre-stage this week, a group of youth experienced racism first hand, and were even confronted with a fire-arm whilst holidaying in Knysna over the past week. The group was allegedly confronted[…]
A sexual harassment complaint has been laid against ANC Western Cape chairperson Marius Fransman in Rustenburg where the party is holding its 104th birthday, a spokesperson confirmed on Friday. “We are aware of the sexual harassment charge being laid against Marius,” party spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said. “We have been in[…]
A Cape Town man recounts his experience at the hands of police officers who detained him for filming an arrest, reports GroundUp. Cape Town – Late on Sunday, January 3, I happened upon an arrest taking place in a street close to my home in Observatory. The arrestee was pinned[…]
Government employee Velaphi Khumalo has been suspended with full pay from the Gauteng Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation Department. In a Facebook post, Khumalo called for black South Africans to do to white people what “Hitler did to the Jews” and cleanse the country of white people. The Sports Promotion[…]
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