Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir says lies and hatred against him won at the High Court in Johannesburg on Monday where he was found guilty of attempted murder. “The lies and the hate won over the truth and the love,” he said before walking down the courtroom stairs back to the[…]
Two armed robbers escaped with an empty cash box and a security guard’s gun when they hit Kenilworth Centre on Monday morning. Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk said two guards arrived at the shopping centre at 11:00 to collect cash from one of the stores. “It is alleged that[…]
At least six police officers and three protesters have been killed in western Nepal in clashes during demonstrations over a proposed new constitution, an official has said. Government Administrator Raj Kumar Shrestha told the AP news agency that protesters in Kailali district had attacked police enforcing a curfew. The official[…]
Turkey and the United States will soon launch “comprehensive” air operations to flush Islamic State fighters from a zone in northern Syria bordering Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Reuters on Monday. Detailed talks between Washington and Ankara on the plans were completed on Sunday, and regional allies including Saudi[…]
Around 225,000 Gazan schoolchildren were forced to return home on Monday after local staff at the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza went on strike on the first day of the new school year. The strike comes amid a financial crisis in the agency that earlier threatened to delay[…]
Almost twenty local hujaaj have been held back in South Africa after not receiving their haj visas. President of the South African Haj and Umrah Council (Sahuc), Shaheen Essop confirmed on Sunday that out of the lot, four hujaaj are still waiting for their visas and others have been delayed[…]
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is expected to release her report on an investigation into allegations of maladministration at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) on Monday afternoon. The report was initially meant to be released on July 23, however according to her office, “implicated parties” approached her on July[…]
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[…]
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