The majority of South Africans who are asked for a bribe will pay it according to reports from the Daily Maverick’s Business Against Corruption event on Thursday. 65% percent of South Africans who are asked for a bribe, pay it according to the Citizens’ Bribery Survey of 2017 conducted by[…]
A Bhekisisa survey has found that there is a dire shortage of ambulances around the country. The survey found that just under 2,000 state-run ambulances are on the road, which means that many patients in need of emergency treatment don’t get it. Senior Associate at DSC Attorneys, Johann Roux says there are many factors that[…]
The Cape Town Muslim community will revel in the presence of three Egyptian luminaries of Quran who are visiting the city over the next few days. The month of Ramadan is celebrated as the month of Quran’s revelation and there is special emphasis on the increased recitation of the sacred[…]
Cache of firearms found at Christchurch man’s home, and he later dies from a stab wound after police surrounded his car. Police investigate a vehicle at the scene where a man died of stab wounds in Christchurch on Wednesday [Sanka Vidanagama/AFP] New Zealand police launched a “high-priority” investigation on Wednesday to[…]
South Africa’s foreign services should be professionalised again, former ambassador Febe Potgieter-Gqubule has said. Potgieter-Gqubule, who is also the ANC’s general manager, told an audience at a public dialogue organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the School of Social Sciences of the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday that there[…]
While thousands of people turned out to enjoy demonstrations by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) at its annual Armed Forces Day, many residents said the event is traumatising, especially in surrounding areas. The six-day event started on Saturday in Mandela Park Sports Stadium Khayelitsha. There were also events[…]
While he was prime minister, Najib Razak was often accused of being woefully out of touch with ordinary citizens’ lives. But now, out of office and facing dozens of criminal charges in connection to an extraordinary multibillion-dollar scandal at Malaysia’s 1MDB state investment fund, the 65-year-old seems to be reinventing[…]
A Turkish court has sentenced a veteran journalist serving a life sentence to nearly six additional years in prison for leaking information deemed secret by the government, state-owned Anadolu news agency has said. Nazli Ilicak, 74, was sentenced to life in prison along with five other journalists last February for[…]
Train commuters are advised to make alternative arrangements after a man was electrocuted while he was on top of a Metrorail train travelling from Philippi station towards Cape Town early on Wednesday. Metrorail’s spokesperson Riana Scott said all Chris Hani trains are forced to terminate at Phillipi station. “Chris Hani[…]
More than 200 employees comprising engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc’s Google published an open letter demanding the company end development of a censored search engine for Chinese users, escalating earlier protests against the secretive project. Google has described the search app, known as Project Dragonfly, as an experiment[…]
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