Greek leftist Alexis Tsipras stormed back into office with an unexpectedly decisive election victory on Sunday, claiming a clear mandate to steer Greece’s battered economy to recovery. The vote ensured Europe’s most outspoken leftist leader would remain Greece’s dominant political figure, despite having been abandoned by party radicals last month[…]
A new temporary truce has begun between pro-government and opposition forces in four Syrian towns, a group that monitors the Syrian conflict has reported. Sunday’s ceasefire began in the rebel-held towns of Zabadani and Madaya outside the capital, Damascus, and the regime-held Shia villages of Fouaa and Kafraya in the[…]
The Mother City is bracing itself for the ‘mother’ of boycott demonstrations on Monday afternoon. Following two court victories in the space of one week, activists and organisers are confident ahead of the mass demonstration outside Grand West Casino, to protest US musician Pharrell William’s partnership with Woolworths. The retailer[…]
With armed robberies hounding Cape Town shopping centres, Business Against Crime(BAC) in the Western Cape is running operation ‘Shopping Centre Security’ to tackle the spate of armed robberies. Business Against Crime is collaborating with South African police, shopping mall centre management and private security to address the outbreak of armed[…]
A planned protest action outside the concert of U.S. singer-songwriter, Pharrell Williams is gaining traction amongst organisations sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) and the Al Quds Foundation of South Africa has now given its full backing to the BDS protest, which is scheduled to take[…]
The gees for the Rugby World Cup 2015 (RWC) is riding high on the streets of Cape Town as the nation gets ready to witness the Springboks go head to head with Fiji at Brighton Community Stadium, England this Saturday. For the first time in Springbok rugby history, South Africa[…]
An on-going mediation process is attempting to curb a spate of taxi violence killings, spurred by tensions between the Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association (CATA) and the Congress for Democratic Taxi Associations (CODETA). The process, hosted by the South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO), saw all relevant role players in the[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has processed 128 545 school student applications for the 2016 academic year, with 118 429 of those applicants having successfully been placed in an institution thus far. The announcement comes amid a second call from the department for parents to honour school enrollment deadlines,[…]
A heavy police and security contingent were keeping watch as hundreds of protesters descended on one of Stellenbosch University’s administration buildings on Friday. The South African Students’ Congress (Sasco) led a group of students through the streets in a march, protesting against the apparent lack of transformation at the institution[…]
We’ve lived with SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng for quite some time now, so we should be able to live with him for a bit longer. This was part of Advocate Norman Arendse’s response to a suggestion by Justice Mahomed Navsa in Motsoeneng’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) hearing[…]
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