Dozens of thousands of Palestinians performed Friday prayers in the al-Aqsa mosque despite Israeli restrictions on entering Jerusalem City. Thousands of Palestinians headed to al-Aqsa from Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to pray. Women less than 30 years of age and men under 50 were prevented from[…]
A request by the media to visit President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla residence, with parliamentary committee members, has been denied. Media24 made a special request to the parliamentary ad hoc committee on Nkandla for permission to accompany it when it visits the president’s house on July 22. The committee’s inspection of[…]
President Jacob Zuma’s response to a meeting requested by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng regarding attacks on the judiciary is “farcical”, the DA said on Thursday. It was “bizarre considering his term in office has been marred by the flagrant contempt he and his executive have demonstrated for our judiciary”, Democratic[…]
A woman appeared in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Friday after a man was beaten to death with a hammer and burnt in his Rocklands home. The 27-year-old woman was apparently the victim’s girlfriend. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana said the 43-year-old man’s body was found in his[…]
A woman in her 30s has died after the vehicle in which she was travelling crashed into a shop front in Claremont in the early hours of Friday morning. “We think it was a furniture shop. Most of those shops there all are windows [have window fronts]. The car collided[…]
Some 150,000 migrants and refugees have so far this year made the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe, and more than 1,900 of them have died, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. The IOM’s announcement on Friday came just a month after the 100,000-mark was passed, and the[…]
Iran accused major powers on Friday of backtracking on previous pledges and throwing up new “red lines” at nuclear talks, after the deadline to reach an agreement in time to receive expedited scrutiny from the U.S. Congress expired with no deal. Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said a deal[…]
Days of mourning have been announced and flags flow on half-mast across the Arab world following the death of the former Saudi foreign minister, who oversaw four decades of diplomacy for the kingdom. The Royal Court announced on Thursday the death of Prince Saud al-Faisal, one of the highest profile[…]
Israeli forces deployed at a main checkpoint in northern Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank prevented hundreds of Palestinians from crossing into Jerusalem Friday morning, due to recently enforced entry restrictions based on age. Israeli forces prevented women between the ages of 16 and 30 from crossing to Jerusalem without[…]
While VOC and Awqaf SA have succeeded in giving 21 masajid a cash injection to improve their facilities, the challenge now is for the community to keep sustaining the project as a form of sadaqah Jariyah. These were the sentiments of Awqaf SA CEO Zeinoul Cajee, in concluding the VOC/AWQAF[…]
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