Relatively few people are aware of the Rohingya people who stem from Burma. This group of people face discrimination on a daily basis and have now taken to the sea in order to seek refuge from a country that does not accept them as citizens. The daily struggle for survival[…]
Eyebrows were raised when the much awaited Cannes Film Festival stopped numerous women from attending gala screenings due to their inappropriate choice of footwear. The events sees the ‘whose who’ of tinsel town, adorn stunning gowns and high inch stilettos to participate in the event. Addressing journalists at a press[…]
Capetonians from different backgrounds have been called to join hands in a symbolic show of protest against xenophobia in South Africa. Following a picket at the St George’s Cathedral in the city centre last month, the Western Cape Religious Leaders Forum (WCRLF) is taking its anti-xenophobia campaign to the townships.[…]
While Operation Fiela brought some relief to the hostile situation in Manenberg on Thursday, residents feel the crackdown will not be effective in curbing violent gang shootings in the long-term. Manenberg was flooded with police, metro police and army officials, as the crime operation was rolled out in the early[…]
The Western Cape Department of Community Safety are calling for more accessibility for witnesses to the country’s witness protection programme, after recent reports highlighting South Africa’s dismal prosecution rate. Of 3100 gang related murders and attempted murder in the last three years, only 85 cases have seen successful conviction The[…]
Maintenance defaulters may soon be at risk of credit blacklisting after MPs within the Justice Portfolio Committee adopted several new amendments to the Maintenance Act this week. Should the bill acquire approval from the National Assembly, defaulters may see their informational passed onto credit suppliers for blacklisting. The move is[…]
A second purported letter emanating from a South African who has emigrated to the Islamic State has emerged. This time it is openly signed by a Rashid Moosagie. It is believed that he was originally from Port Elizabeth and holds the rank of a Mufti or Islamic scholar who has[…]
As residents on the Cape Flats intensify their call to have the army deployed to gang-dominated areas, a specialist in policing says that that call needs to be heeded by local government, civil servants and and politicians. Crime researcher Eldred De Klerk says the initial idea of having the army[…]
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[…]
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