Fourteen students at the University of Cape Town have thus far been suspended for occupying Avenue house, an administrative building that forms part of the student housing system at UCT. These students form part of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement (RMFM). This movement was founded in the early stages of[…]
A South African coalition of Palestinian solidarity activists on Wednesday began shooting a video campaign in order to create public awareness around the situation in Al-Yarmouk. In April 2015, the Al-Yarmouk refugee camp was besieged by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) militia. The Yarmouk camp[…]
A new civil society movement says its made a breakthrough in the gang-ridden community of Valhalla Park, following the area’s first incident free weekend in several years. The Wes Kaapse Kleurlings Ontwikkelings Organisasie (WKKOO) has said that an intervention facilitated on its behalf has led to a truce between rival[…]
A dead body was discovered on a Mitchell’s Plain sports field on Wednesday morning. Western Cape police spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana confirmed that the body of a man was discovered at the Portlands Sports Complex in Hazeldene Road. The man appeared to have been strangled with a length of wire.[…]
Court has been adjourned until noon on Tuesday so that Christopher Panayiotou could discuss the issue of his legal representation in the Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court. This was after State advocate Marius Stander told the court that defence advocate Terry Price would not be representing Panayiotou on Tuesday and would[…]
The State has maintained its argument that Marthinus van der Walt was fully aware of his actions when he killed Dr Louis Heyns. Closing arguments related to the murder, kidnapping and hijacking of Stellenbosch academic and paediatrician, Dr Louis Heyns, were heard in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.[…]
Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has delayed by a week local and parliamentary elections set for May 26, after nearly a month of political unrest and a failed military coup in the east African state, his adviser has said. Nkurunziza made the decision after a recommendation by the election commission and[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning from Israel to the West Bank. The announcement came several hours after a three-month pilot project which was approved by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon[…]
Fighters from the Islamic State group entered the northern city limits of ancient Palmyra Wednesday, seizing a state security building after intense fighting, a monitor said. “The jihadists are once again in the north of Tadmur, after taking over the state security building,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian[…]
The Artscape Theatre is to play host on Wednesday to a public lecture on xenophobia, hosted by the Skilled Foreign Nationals in South Africa (SFONSA). The event will be attended by several top government officials, as well as other notable speakers. On the agenda will be topics around pan-Africanism, globalization[…]
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