As the world prepares to countdown into 2016 tonight, there is a strong focus on resolutions and fresh goals for the new year. While Capetonians enclave themselves in New Year’s celebrations you may be keen on beginning a new chapter which could mean trying to pay off your credit cards[…]
From the chaos in Parliament, signal jamming, load-shedding, water shedding, to Nkandla, Marikana and mass student protests, South Africans really saw it all this year. 2015 will go down as one of the most exciting, scary and outright crazy years in news. This week, we handed the baton over to[…]
A High Court application is threatening to derail the construction of a mosque in Knysna, with a group of objectors from a local homeowners association keen to have the development’s approval overturned. In 2008 the Knysna Muslim Council applied to its local municipality for a property anywhere in the vicinity[…]
State laboratories are proving far too inefficient in returning blood sample results of those arrested whilst driving under the influence of alcohol, a scenario that is severely deterred efforts to clampdown on drunk drivers. These inefficiencies, according to the director of the Justice Project SA, mean that very few drunk-driving[…]
The best way in which South Africa can emerge from its current economic woes is if the South African Reserve Bank remains independent, particularly from state institutions. This is according to Dr Adrian Saville, chief strategist at Citadel, who says that the successes or failures of the Reserve Bank will[…]
Badroeniesa May is such a huge fan of Cape Town’s famous Cape Malay Choir nagtroepe (night troupes) that she has already spent a night on Darling Street to book a prime viewing spot for the event which starts on Wednesday night. “It was fine, there were some people going home[…]
An attorney who was approached to represent a local Muslim family, whose four children have been detained for close to a month in Saudi Arabia for “security reasons”, says the siblings are being held without charge and are being denied the right to communicate with their family or lawyers. The[…]
The fear of possible shack fires has become a “way of life” for those residing in the Imizamo Yethu informal settlement in Hout Bay. The area was hit by a devastating fire over Christmas weekend which destroyed more than 500 shacks, leaving 1 dead and over 1000 homeless. The blaze[…]
A group of umrah pilgrims still waiting for visas will have their passports issued by today. This was the reassurance given by Al Mujahideen Haj and Umrah group, following a visa bungle last week. A group of nearly 90 mu’tamireen, who were expected to depart from Thursday last week, had[…]
A delegation from the South African branch of the Al-Imdaad Foundation have jetted back into the country after a humanitarian mission to the Turkish /Syrian border during earlier this month. The group visited the region as part of a campaign aimed at assisting young Syrian orphans affected by a nearly[…]
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