With more communities affected by the current drought in South Africa, the Voice of the Cape has announced that it will be partnering with Shukrul Mubeen Masjid on a new water project to address the water scarcity. Five provinces have so far been declared disaster areas since the worst[…]
The City of Cape Town is expected to furnish more than 24 clinics in key areas across the city with its FreeCall Line (FCL) system, which will allow members of the public to raise pertinent issues and concerns around service delivery with the City. The FCLs will provide a direct[…]
The committee and imamat of Masjid al-Quds have taken the decision to hold a ‘prayer for rain’ this coming Sunday, in the hopes of bringing relief in the midst of the country’s worst droughts in decades. While relief efforts have been conducted in problem areas by a number of groupings[…]
A charred body was found in a train after blaze at Fish Hoek railway station on Thursday. Metrorail Western Cape confirmed that two carriages of the train caught alight around 10am Thursday morning. No injuries were initially reported and all commuters were safely evacuated from the train. However, a body[…]
The ANC’s Western Cape leaders led a march organised by the youth league against racism in Cape Town on Friday. The Youth League said that it wants to highlight its rejection of what it calls racist utterances and attacks on black people. Mohammed Khalid Sayed, provincial chairperson of the ANCYL[…]
The ANC Youth League in the Western Cape says it will be mobilising the youth in a march to the Federal Offices of the Democratic Alliance on Friday, as part of their #EndRacism campaign. ANCYL Secretary General, Njabulo Nzuzu told media at a briefing on Wednesday that the group plans[…]
An immigration expert has weighed in on the case of U.S. rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), who was arrested in Cape Town last week for allegedly travelling on fraudulent documents, describing the case as a perfect example of the inefficiencies in South Africa’s new immigration laws. Bey, who has[…]
South African society is functioning as an extremely race-orientated entity bordering along the lines of prejudice and racism. This is the viewpoint of Gerhard Papenfus, chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA), who recently wrote an opinion piece entitled ‘Racism: Do Not Whitewash The Reality’. Since[…]
Delft police are continuing the investigation of a 30 year old man who had been butchered in Rossendal on Friday. The decomposing body of Ali Williams was found in his backyard toilet on Sunday afternoon. His stepson Christopher Marcus came across the corpse after attempting to use the toilet. Marcus[…]
Students at the Oxford Union voted on Tuesday night to remove the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes with 245 ayes and 212 noes as part of a wider movement of “decolonisation” of the curriculum at the university. The vote followed vibrant discussion between all of the speakers and between the[…]
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