Ten policemen arrested last year on charges of fraud, extortion and corruption have pleaded not guilty. The officers appeared in the Bellville Regional Court on Tuesday. Proceedings were postponed to Wednesday as court interpreters for Northern Sotho, Afrikaans and isiXhosa were not immediately available. Four were off sick, prosecutor Tertia[…]
The Syrian National Coalition (SNC) has accepted an invitation to join talks with other opposition groups in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Al Jazeera has learnt. The SNC will decide on Monday evening which of its 20 members it will send to a conference in Riyadh later this month, Naghm al-Ghadri, the[…]
Residents of the southern Egyptian city of Luxor have staged a rally in protest at the death of a man in police custody, the latest in a string of killings by security forces, the state-owned Ahram newspaper reported. The protest on Tuesday came almost a week after the death of[…]
Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen on Tuesday in exchange for the release of jailed radicals including the ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese 16 months ago during an attack on the Lebanese border town of Arsal mounted[…]
A debate on whether or not Western Cape Premier Helen Zille should be impeached is expected to be held at the provincial legislature on Tuesday. The ANC in the province chairperson Marius Fransman gave notice on Monday of the intention to impeach Zille. He said the ruling party believed there[…]
The City of Cape Town is doing everything in its power to ensure that the debris left behind by a blaze which claimed the lives of two people and destroyed 800 shacks at an informal settlement near Fish Hoek at the weekend is cleared, Human Settlements Member of the Mayoral[…]
An official says that the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) is finalising a decision on whether to send Oscar Pistorius back to prison by overturning a lower court’s manslaughter conviction and finding the Paralympian guilty of murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Paul Myburgh, registrar of the Supreme Court of Appeal, told[…]
Student movement Open Stellenbosch has described the university council’s decision on the proposed language policy as a blatant rejection towards any transformation at the institution. Khule Duma, a member of Open Stellenbosch, said the reason why students had called for a change in the institution’s language policy was because black[…]
World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming. In a series of opening addresses to the U.N. talks, heads of[…]
Roch Marc Christian Kabore has been elected Burkina Faso’s new leader, the second civilian to become president since the West African country won independence in 1960, according to preliminary results released by the country’s electoral commission. The Independent National Electoral Commission said on Tuesday morning that results showed that Kabore,[…]
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