Today, 11 February, marks fifty years since District Six had been declared a whites-only area under the Group Areas Act. The area is a unique space in the Country that The Department of Rural Development and Land reform is currently redeveloping for victims affected by the land dispossession. To tell[…]
“Every time I walk or drive pass District Six I can see my house still standing there…that is where I was born. It is so heart sore to come to town and go back…you know that feeling of not being able to go home.” This is how 59 year old[…]
All eyes and ears will be on President Jacob Zuma who is set to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) later on Thursday. Most political pundits believe this will be Zuma’s toughest SONA yet, amid increased political pressure to step down as president following a number of bad[…]
Lest we forget… 11 February 1990. Heady days they were. What with De Klerk’s sudden capitulation and the unbanning of the anti-apartheid movement. They were moments to cherish; it was history being made, and were we part of that history – as journalists were we recording it, we were documenting[…]
The family of Shaykh Abdu Salaam Jad Bassiouni says they feel hopeless as he continues to languish in a Cairo prison. Shaykh Bassiouni who travelled to Egypt to attend his daughter’s wedding in December 2014, was detained on entry and subsequently imprisoned. Shaykh Bassiouni, who is a dual citizen of[…]
With hundreds of first-year UCT students participating in RAG O-Week’s Sax Appeal, the university’s management has advised students to be cautious. The university says its prioritizing the safety of its students by increasing security and consciousness on campus, says the head of communications Elijah Mohalola. UCT management has placed a[…]
The agriculture industry in the Western Cape has lost more than R700 million due to damages caused by fires and drought in the province. According to Anton Rabe, executive director at Hortgro, there is a great water shortage within many regions of South Africa, particularly in the greater Witzenberg area,[…]
While there might be more qualified doctors entering the medical field, the progression into the work place seems far less than administrative staff employed at hospitals. “One of the things that we need to realise is that the government has done quite well in drawing healthcare professionals into public service,[…]
Car-remote jamming, a crime on the rise, has sparked concern within South Africa. VOC News spoke to Juliet McGuire, online editor of the women’s magazine, Women on Wheels. McGuire who has written extensively about the issue of car-remote jamming, recently became a victim herself. McGuire became a victim of car-remote[…]
Oxfam has calculated that close to 14-million South Africans go to bed hungry every night in South Africa. While these vast numbers of South Africans crave food they cannot access, the country somehow, manages to dump food valued at R60-billion. A South African-based scientific and technology research, development and implementation[…]
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