Israeli police said Monday that thousands of officers would be deployed in occupied East Jerusalem ahead of the Yom Kippur and Eid al-Adha holidays after three days of clashes rocked the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound last week. Authorities also said 21 Palestinians were detained overnight in East Jerusalem linked to last[…]
“Go to Hell, Pharrell!!” is how Twitter user @beelah_eb_1 summed up the attitude of pro-Palestinian supporters ahead of a plan BDS protest outside Grand West this evening. U.S. musician, Pharrell Williams is expected to face a stormy reception to a one-off tour hosted by local retailer, Woolworths with BDS boldly[…]
Deputy national director of Public Prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba might be up for an inquiry into her fitness to hold office if a DA court application is successful. The opposition party filed an affidavit at the Western Cape High Court after ultimatums to President Jacob Zuma to initiate an inquiry were[…]
The Western Cape branch of Cosatu on Saturday added fuel to the flames of defeat to the Springboks calling for coach Heyneke Meyer to be fired. A statement issued accuses the Springboks of being “a white team”. “The ‘old’ injured white men were just useless and gave Japan the space[…]
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) on Saturday said they were “severely disturbed” by conditions at Pollsmoor Prison. The union called on the Department of Correctional Services to intervene and “speedily comply and ensure basic standards as articulated by the Bill of Rights”. In a statement, Popcru said[…]
The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 in 2017, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said. The US will accept 85,000 refugees from around the world next year, up[…]
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[…]
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