More than 100 Turkish soldiers have been deployed to an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, currently under control of the Islamic State (IS) group, to replace a unit providing training to Iraqi troops, Turkish media reported on Friday. Around 150 soldiers, backed by 20 to 25 tanks,[…]
Egyptian authorities on Friday re-sealed the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, upholding a near-permanent closure of the border this year, Egyptian security sources said. Egyptian security sources told Ma’an that the crossing was closed after Egyptian authorities permitted Palestinian movement through the border for two days. Around[…]
More than 1 100 building kits will be given to people who lost their homes in a devastating fire in Masiphumelele, the City of Cape Town said on Saturday. “The building kit consists of, among others, a door, hinges and lockset, a window, nails and poles, and corrugated steel sheets,”[…]
An 18-year-old student was seriously injured when he fell out the window on the third floor of a student residence in Cape Town early on Saturday morning, paramedics said. The student fell two storeys and landed on a balcony on the first floor of the same building, ER24 spokesperson Pieter[…]
Members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) in Parliament want an independent person to be appointed to oversee possible disciplinary actions against them. The workers, who were on strike for more than three weeks and called it off on Wednesday, hope to be back at work[…]
South Africans dare not fail former president Nelson Mandela’s legacy, his grandson has said. Nkosi Mandla Mandela, reflecting on the life of the former African National Congress leader and the first democratic president in South Africa, said it was rare for a soul to touch the entire human race in[…]
The community of Mitchells Plain today witnessed the launch of the Justice of the Peace and the Commissioners of Oaths (JOCOP) forum. This initiative was started in partnership with the SAPS in Mitchells Plain in order to allow members of the forum to assist the community of Mitchell’s plain without[…]
As the 2015 academic year draws to a close, matriculants anxiously await their results, expected to be released on the 6 of January 2016. Looking back at the year, students expressed mixed sentiments. ”My matric papers are the last thing on my mind,” exclaims Junaid Martin, a student of Alexander[…]
Germany’s parliament has approved Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plan to join the military mission in Syria aimed at defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Germany will send six Tornado reconnaissance jets and a refuelling aircraft to back up the international anti-ISIL coalition, but its military will not[…]
Burundi is on the brink of civil war and will need regional mediation to establish a peace process between the government and opposition to prevent further bloodshed, a US envoy said. Thomas Perriello, the US special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, said on Thursday that Burundi is “facing a[…]
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