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Blame Nzimande, not Wits: DA

Poor Wits students should lay blame for high university fees at Blade Nzimande’s door, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Saturday. In a statement, DA leader Mmusi Maimane welcomed the Wits University decision to suspend its hiked fees, but said it would not “fix the ANC government’s failure to provide[…]

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Egypt votes in parliamentary elections

Egyptians are voting for a parliament expected to firmly back President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has crushed all opposition since ousting his predecessor, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. The much-delayed vote for the 596-member parliament – the previous assembly was dissolved in June 2012 – is to be staged in two[…]

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Fifa candidate linked to Bahrain crackdown

Human rights organisations have reacted with alarm to the Bahraini royal Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa becoming the new favourite to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president, citing his family’s role in the brutal suppression of the country’s pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011. Sheikh Salman, the Asian Football Confederation president, is[…]

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Indian girls aged five and two raped in Delhi

Police say two children – a two-year-old and a five-year-old – have been raped in separate attacks in the Indian capital Delhi, in the latest incidents of sexual violence against girls and women in the country. Delhi Police deputy superintendent Pushpendra Kumar said on Saturday that the two-year-old girl was[…]

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Wits suspends fee hike

Wits University has suspended its decision to hike fees by 10.5% after an all-nighter to end a student protest. ”The University will suspend the decision on all fee increments made for 2016. There will be no fee increments until negotiations reach an agreement,” a university statement said. Spokesperson Shirona Patel[…]

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Three suspected robbers shot dead in CT

Three men were shot dead when they allegedly tried to rob a wholesaler in Epping, Cape Town, on Friday afternoon, Western Cape police said. Police were called when six men allegedly tried to rob the store at 13:30, Captain FC van Wyk said. During the ensuing shoot-out, three of the[…]

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