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[…]
A 30-year-old man was shot and killed, and an imam was injured in an attack on a Cape Town mosque, police said on Friday. “According to reports the incident occurred on Tuesday at 19:00 at a mosque at Ntlazane Road, Khayelitsha,” police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana said. “Police arrived at[…]
The universal Peace federation will host the Africa Summit 2018, under the theme “Honouring the Legacy of President Nelson Mandela from 21 November to 24 November 2018.
Tears flowed as parents started testifying yesterday at a public inquiry into child killings in the Western Cape, claiming their pleas for help falls on deaf ears. The two-day inquiry is being held at the Novalis Ubuntu Institute in Wynberg. It comes more than a year after various non-governmental organisations[…]
In a landmark ruling, the Israeli Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay 14 million shekels ($3.8 million) to 51 Palestinians it falsely imprisoned. The ruling upheld previous verdicts made by Israel’s lower courts and formed part of an ongoing legal case against the PA in which[…]
Egyptian authorities “have stepped up their onslaught against the country’s human rights community by arresting at least 19 human rights lawyers and activists in a series of raids today,” Amnesty International said on Thursday. The leading international rights group explained that: “So far at least eight women and 11 men[…]
There’s been yet another shack fire in Cape Town, this time in Masiphumelele. The Fire and Rescue’s Theo Layne said: “Fifty informal structures were destroyed in the fire that left approximately 150 people displaced with no injuries reported. Approximately 65 firefighters were dispatched to the incident and the fire was extinguished[…]
Swedish singer, songwriter, and music producer of Lebanese origin, Maher Zain held a press briefing atop Table Mountain in Cape Town, to announce the performance of his latest debut album at the Artscape theatre. In conjunction with his record label, Awakening Records, Swedish Embassy from Pretoria and the Cape Philharmonic[…]
The Civil Aviation Authority and police have started an investigative process following a helicopter crash that claimed the life of a 65-year-old pilot during firefighting operations in the Garden Route region yesterday. According to police spokesperson, Malcolm Potjie, preliminary investigations indicate that Nico Heyns from George, lost control of the[…]
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