Preliminary hearings against the State have begun within the Western Cape High Court, as the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) and fellow interested parties seek to hold government to account over its failure to pass legislation that would recognise Muslim marriages within a court of law. The move seeks to compel[…]
Although the ANC has failed in a bid to have Western Cape Premier, Helen Zille removed from office, the party’s case against Zille will likely still be taken up within a court of law, according to political analyst, Abdul Waheed Patel. The ANC in the Western Cape on Tuesday failed[…]
Women and children are often subjected to more subtle cases of abuse beyond physical, with emotional and sexual trauma proving far more prevalent than most would care to assume. According to Suraiya Nawab, director and founding member of Islamic Careline, such manifestations of abuse often go under the radar because[…]
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union’s strike in Parliament has been called off. On Wednesday, almost four weeks after workers first downed tools, workers accepted an offer from Parliament, after negotiations with Nehawu’s national leadership and presiding officers. Nehawu branch chairperson Sthembiso Tembe on Wednesday said they had[…]
ANC Western Cape secretary Faiez Jacobs has been placed on precautionary suspension after being accused of beating up a colleague for failing to write a report on the organisation. The suspension follows a post on Facebook by Anda Qhama Bici, with a picture of researcher Wesley Seale bleeding. In a[…]
A South African man who has been held hostage in Mali for four years, has expressed hope that he would see his family soon, in a video released to the organisation Gift of the Givers. Stephen McGown, looking thin and sporting a long beard, thanked the South African government and[…]
The British parliament has begun to debate a motion authorising the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in Syria. The discussion comes amid divisions over the planned intervention within Prime Minister David Cameron’s own Conservative Party and the opposition Labour Party.[…]
Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a Turkish[…]
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters have consolidated their grip on territory in southern Yemen after capturing the towns of Zinjibar and Ja’ar from pro-government forces. The AQAP fighters launched an offensive on the towns at dawn on Wednesday, local officials said. Al-Khader Haidan, a leader within the popular[…]
Cape Town’s mayoral committee said on Tuesday it had approved the stepping up of water restrictions to level two. In a statement the city said the item will now go before council for deliberation on December 10. “As we are situated in a water-scarce region, the city imposes level 1[…]
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