A Christian college in Chicago has begun the process of sacking a professor who wore a hijab to class in solidarity with Muslims and posted on Facebook that there are many similarities between Islam and Christianity. Larycia Hawkins, 43, an associate professor of political science at Wheaton College, said she[…]
2015 will be remembered as the year that Palestinian popular resistance spread across historic Palestine and saw tens of thousands of Palestinians take to the streets to resist and confront Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. Ten years since the launch of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), 2015 also[…]
Western Cape MEC for education, Debbie Schafer has heaped praised on the province’s class of 2015 after it secured the highest overall pass rate in the country. Not only was the Western Cape’s 84.7% the highest amongst all nine provinces, but it was also the only pass rate increase from[…]
13 603 suspects were arrested in crime hotspots across the city over the recent festive season, part of the South African Police Services (SAPS) efforts to intensify crime prevention operations over the busy holiday period. The arrests formed part of a series of operations aimed at tackling crime and gang-related[…]
eNCA senior anchor Andrew Barnes on Thursday issued a public apology for mocking Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s pronunciation of the word “epitome”. “I am grateful for this opportunity to apologise for the comment I made on News Day on Wednesday afternoon. I made fun of the education minister’s pronunciation[…]
Controversial radio personality and former Idols SA judge Gareth Cliff on Thursday said he was disappointed that people were calling for a boycott against him following some backlash he’s received on Twitter for adding his views on the Penny Sparrow racist post debate. “I am very disappointed how this agenda[…]
The ANC Youth League said on Thursday that it would call for a national boycott of Standard Bank if the company did not fire economist Chris Hart. “Within its corporate corridors racism and apartheid is still alive,” ANCYL Gauteng chairperson Matome Chiloane said during a march to the bank’s headquarters[…]
Paris police shot dead on Thursday a man wielding a knife after he tried to enter a police station shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Great) and wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt. The incident took place exactly one year after deadly militant attacks on the Charlie[…]
Dozens of air strikes hit the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest aerial attacks there in nine months of war, days after a Saudi-led coalition trying to restore a Saudi-backed government ended a fragile ceasefire. The strikes pounded the presidential palace and a mountain[…]
Warnings of widespread starvation are growing as pro-government forces besiege an opposition-held town in Syria and winter bites, darkening the already bleak outlook for peace talks the United Nations hopes to convene this month. The blockade of Madaya, near the border with Lebanon, has become a focal issue for Syrian[…]
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