A Cape Town lawyer kidnapped on Friday has been rescued by police, who arrested three people after successfully pursuing several leads. The traumatised victim was found a day later, in a town 280km away from his home in Bellville, police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi said. His wife had reported[…]
By Kouthar Sambo Southeast Turkey has experienced a new earthquake, according to the United States Geological Service (USGS) and Turkey’s AFAP emergency organization. The quake, according to Turkish officials, had a magnitude of 7.6. The village of Ekinozu in the Kahramanmaras, where the 7.8 earthquake struck hours earlier, is four[…]
JOHANNESBURG – Civil society organisation Stand Up SA said that it supported the proposal to declare load shedding a national state of disaster. The call was initially made by the Democratic Alliance (DA) and was supported by many organisations across the country. The African National Congress (ANC) also deliberated on the[…]
INTERNATIONAL Saudi Arabia signed new multi-billion dollar deals with South Korea last week, in the kingdom’s latest bid to boost ties with one of its main oil consumers and the fourth largest economy in Asia. In his visit to Seoul on 16 November, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman[…]
INTERNATIONAL At least six people were killed and 81 wounded, including two critically, after an explosion hit Istiklal Avenue in the historic Beyoglu district in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, Vice President Fuat Oktay said. “We consider it to be a terrorist act as a result of a female attacker, detonating the bomb,” Oktay[…]
The National Assembly has passed the Expropriation Bill with the DA, EFF, IFP, Freedom Front Plus, and ACDP putting their objections on the record. The current legislative draft, tabled late in 2020, allows expropriation of land only for public purposes and in the public interest. Now, alongside just and equitable[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says given the unpredictable performance of Eskom’s fleet of coal-fired power stations, government will not be able to eliminate load-shedding in the short term. In his weekly newsletter, he says the immediate goal is to reduce the frequency and severity of load-shedding, by addressing power station breakdowns.[…]
INTERNATIONAL Many British Muslims have been reduced to “second-class” citizens as a consequence of citizenship-stripping powers introduced by the UK government since 2002, according to a new report by a race equality think tank. The report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), entitled “Citizenship: from right to privilege“, follows the recent extension[…]
LOCAL The Presidency has been given 72 hours in which to assess and address the concerns of unemployed social workers. Scores of them marched to the Presidency at the Union Buildings demanding jobs and R7 000 monthly stipend, while still searching for jobs. They say some of them graduated more[…]
LOCAL Corruption Watch’s newly-released report shows that corruption has continued to affect the country’s education sector. This is despite the numerous policies and legislation intended to provide access to decent education. According to Corruption Watch, for over 10 years it has received disturbing complaints of alleged corruption across basic and[…]
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