E-tolling and its effects since implementation should be reviewed in Parliament, DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane said on Monday. The Democratic Alliance would ask the transport portfolio committee to do the review over the coming days, Maimane told reporters in Johannesburg. “We contend because e-tolls were introduced by enabling legislation[…]
Human rights activist and co-founder of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, Omar Barghouti believes global human rights conferences are important in cementing the resistance against oppression. Barghouti was speaking on VOC’s Drivetime following his address at the War Resisters’ International Conference on Friday. According to Barghouti, human rights[…]
The provincial land claims commissioner in the Western Cape, Michael Worsnip, has hailed the reopening of the land claims process, saying the decision was based on the massive numbers who were excluded as a result of the previous cut off date. President Jacob Zuma last week signed into law the[…]
Egypt’s president has said he wished journalists jailed in his country had been deported rather than tried, less than two weeks after three Al Jazeera staff were sentenced to seven years in prison for “aiding a terrorist group”. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was reported by the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper as telling[…]
Israel arrested six Jewish suspects Sunday in the grisly slaying of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned alive last week – a crime that set off a wave of violent protests in Arab sections of the country. Leaders of the Jewish state appealed for calm amid signs the[…]
One of Anni Dewani’s killers has applied for medical parole, according to Sunday’s Rapport newspaper. Xolile Mngeni, 26, was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2011. Correctional services said the request was being processed. He was admitted to Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town last month. The Western Cape High[…]
Israeli airstrikes have killed at least nine Palestinian fighters from the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah, making it their highest single death toll since a 2012 cross-border war. Two of the men from the Al Hussinin brigade, a military group belonging to Fatah, were targeted by drone strikes east[…]
The NPA has not seen the video of murder-accused Oscar Pistorius re-enacting the scene of the killing of Reeva Steenkamp. “We have no comment… and have nothing to do with the video,” said spokesman Nathi Mncube on Monday. The prosecution team for the case, led by Gerrie Nel, had not[…]
A gang of men robbed worshippers at a central Johannesburg mosque this week, Gauteng police said on Sunday. “The case was only opened yesterday [Saturday] but the incident happened on Thursday,” Lt-Col Lungelo Dlamini said. “Six unknown people attacked those people while they were praying and robbed them of cellphones,[…]
VOC will be featured in an insert of a South African documentary on cultural and religious identity on Sunday. Executive producer Shaffee Shaik said the documentary ‘320 years of Islam in South Africa’ with reflect on the country’s Cape Muslim history going back to Tricentenary celebrations in 1994. “VOC played[…]
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