An influx of new claimants in the District Six restitution process has necessitated the need for a redress of the area’s redevelopment. With the claims process having reopened in July 2014, more than 5000 new applicants have since registered for restitution in the area. This prompted the District Six Working[…]
The Davids family finally received their land in Lotus River as part of the City of Cape Town’s restitution process. It’s been fifty years since the Davids family was dispossessed of their land which was taken from the late Doud and Garaniesa Davids, under the apartheid regime. On Tuesday, the[…]
The Western Cape provincial government is planning to set up a Halaal agri-processing food park which could see the province becoming a major supplier to North African and Middle Eastern countries, where around 20% of the world’s Muslim population reside. The fast growing global Halaal market is worth $2.3 trillion.[…]
Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir has claimed there was a conspiracy against him that went as high as national police commissioner General Riah Phiyega. This emerged in his bail hearing for the murder of Sam Issa in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. “I believe it’s an instruction from Riah Phiyega,[…]
The best two seconds of her life. That is how Michelle Inngs described the moment when the man accused of masterminding her daughter Jayde Panayiotou’s murder, failed again in his attempt to be released on bail. Christopher Panayiotou’s family as well as his defence, were notably absent from proceedings on[…]
US President Barack Obama has warned that Africa will not advance if its leaders refuse to step down when their terms end. He also called for an end to the “cancer of corruption”, saying it took money away from development . Mr Obama made the comments in the first ever[…]
NATO gave Turkey its full political support in fighting militants in Syria and Iraq at an emergency meeting on Tuesday but several nations urged Ankara not to undermine the Kurdish peace process by using excessive military force. Following a 90-minute meeting in Brussels, Turkey won the backing it sought for[…]
A PLO Executive Committee member on Tuesday said that secret meetings between Palestinian and Israeli officials serve Israeli interests and violate previous PLO decisions on resuming peace talks. Tayseer Khalid, from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, said that several meetings have occurred recently in Arab and European[…]
As a little boy Fayiz al-Kandari would give half of his allowance to the poor. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the teenager handed out food and supplies to those in need. A decade later as a young man he went to volunteer in an Afghan village. Kandari helped build two[…]
Hamas spokesperson, Usamah Hamdan, spoke to Suraya Dadoo about the ‘blood libel’ and the inspiration Hamas draws from South Africa. This article was originally published on News24 Voices It’s impossible to mention Usamah Hamdan’s name without ‘blood libel’ popping up. The Hamas spokesperson has been accused of saying that killing[…]
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