The Tunisian parliament has adopted a new “anti-terror” law aimed at beefing up authorities’ powers following recent deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group. Following three days of debate, the law was adopted late on Friday night, with 172 members of parliament voting[…]
Israeli forces on Saturday morning opened fire on Palestinian agricultural lands near the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Locals told Ma’an that Israeli forces stationed in watchtowers near the Gaza-Israel border opened fire on Palestinian farmers who had arrived to tend their crops. No injuries[…]
The United Nations removed the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp from a list of besieged areas in Syria despite not having direct access to the camp for five months, a humanitarian news group said Friday. “The UN continues to have no direct access, but has been able, with partners, to deliver[…]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille launched what has been calledd the Stabilisation Unit in Manenberg on Friday as part of the Provincial Government and City of Cape Town’s plan to improve crime ridden Manenberg. After the launch, De Lille told VOC News that the 190 strong unit, which forms part[…]
Outraged Lentegeur residents are taking back their community in a fight against on-going gang violence that has shed the blood of tons of railway commuters along Lentegeur railway station. “There has been a spat of shootings in the area. We believe that it is related to gang violence that often[…]
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in South Africa (BDS SA) has refuted allegations it walked out a meeting with the City of Cape Town, after the two parties met on Thursday over the organisations plans to stage a protest outside a Pharrell Williams concert in September. BDS are optimistically[…]
Amidst the City of Cape Town’s announcement of an investment initiative aimed at improving conditions in the gang-infested area of Manenberg, the Manenberg Community Policing Forum has expressed concern at a lack of consultation on the plans with the community. This comes despite those behind the project having surveyed the[…]
South Africa has been named amongst the eight worst corruption hotspots on the African continent, in a survey conducted by law firm ENSafrica. The findings placed the country 7th in terms of corruption and bribery across the continent, although it also highlighted an increase in anti-bribery compliance awareness amongst those[…]
Tensions are high in Rocklands, Mitchells Plain, after an alleged high ranking gangster was shot and killed on Thursday afternoon. Locals say they fear retaliation shootings after the 47-year-old was killed in a hail of bullets near a shopping centre in Caravelle Street at 17:00. The man allegedly belonged to[…]
The matter against a woman accused of snatching a baby from Groote Schuur Hospital 18 years ago is headed to the Western Cape High Court. The 50-year-old Lavender Hill suspect appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday on charges of kidnapping and fraud. The matter was postponed to[…]
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