The High Court in Johannesburg will hear an application by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Sonke Gender Justice on Monday for them to intervene as amici curiae (friends of the court) in a possible class action suit against South African gold mines. The potential class action involves thousands of[…]
A Western Cape ward councillor’s house as well as two cars and a number of shacks were burnt down in a protest over housing at the weekend. A group of around 200 Paarl East residents had allegedly taken part in an illegal march in the area late on Friday evening[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has blown up a 2,000-year-old temple in the UNESCO-listed Syrian city of Palmyra, a rights group and the country’s antiquities chief have said. Maamoun Abdulkarim, Syria’s antiquities chief, said the group placed a large quantity of explosives in the temple[…]
President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he is planning to visit Iran soon, although a date has yet to be decided. The Palestinian president, who was speaking to a delegation of Polish journalists in Ramallah following his resignation from the PLO Executive Committee on Saturday, said that Iran was “a sister[…]
A Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of administrative detention under which prisoners may be held without trial indefinitely. Mohammed Allan, 31, ended his 66-day hunger strike on Thursday after Israel’s top court suspended his administrative detention. He entered a coma twice before[…]
A man overpowered by passengers on a crowded train is “dumbfounded” by allegations of terrorism and denies any shot was fired, a lawyer who had been representing has said. In comments broadcast on Sunday, Sophie David, a lawyer assigned to represent Ayob el-Khazzani at the beginning of his detention in Arras, but[…]
Mostly young men use a firearm to commit a crime in certain parts of the Western Cape, and only one in five are likely to be convicted. These were some of the findings of a study – conducted by the provincial community safety department – released on Sunday. Community Safety[…]
A man was killed and six others seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in lost control on the N1 near Bellville in Cape Town on Saturday afternoon. The vehicle crashed into the barrier near the Jip de Jager offramp, said Cape Town traffic spokesperson Maxine Jordaan. Officials closed[…]
Former al-Qaeda captive Yolande Korkie had an emotional reunion in Bloemfontein at the weekend with the Gift of the Givers’ negotiator Anas al-Hamati, who helped secure her release in Yemen. “Yolande has met her negotiator for the first time,” said Gift of the Givers event co-ordinator Emily Thomas. “When they[…]
At least 65 civilians have been killed by air strikes in Yemen’s Taiz, including 17 people from one family, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reported. The deaths occurred when Saudi-led Arab coalition air strikes hit civilian homes, MSF said in a statement released on Friday. During the past three days, Houthi[…]
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