About 360 people have been left homeless after a fire swept through a section of Du Noon in Cape Town. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security in the City of Cape Town, JP Smith, says 120 structures were destroyed. He says no fatalities were recorded but two firefighters sustained[…]
Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services (DEMS) say they are yet to determine the body count following a gas tanker that exploded at Boksburg train station, east of Johannesburg. Ekurhuleni DEMS spokesperson William Ntladi says initially emergency services were called to attend to a fire, when the gas tanker exploded.[…]
Indonesian rescue workers were racing on Tuesday to reach people still trapped in rubble a day after an earthquake devastated a West Java town, killing at least 162 people and injuring hundreds, as officials warned the death toll may rise. The epicentre of the shallow 5.6-magnitude quake hit on land[…]
LOCAL The youngest daughter of anti-apartheid activist Imam Abdullah Haron, who died in police detention in 1969, has wrapped up the testimony in the reopened inquest into his death. Fatiema Haron Masoet has asked the High Court in Cape Town to overturn the original inquest finding of 1970, that no one is[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis With week two of the inquest into the death of Imam Abdullah Haron set to begin at the Cape High Court today, daughter of the late Imam, Fatima Haron Masoet says the family expects full closure when proceedings wrap up later this week. This comes as[…]
As day five of the inquest into the death of Imam Abdullah Haron gets underway at the Cape High Court, Forensic Pathologist Dr Segaran Ramalu Naidu took to the stand to dispute the original cause of death purported by the apartheid’s state security was indeed false. According to Dr Naidu,[…]
LOCAL A forensic pathologist has told an inquest into the death of struggle cleric, Imam Abdullah Haron, that she’s identified several procedural irregularities in Haron’s post-mortem report in 1970. The reopened inquest is continuing at the High Court in Cape Town. Dr Itumeleng Molefe says the chronology of events leading up to Haron’s[…]
South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has promised a thorough investigation into the Halloween crush over the weekend that killed more than 150 people in the capital and plunged the country into mourning. Officials said on Monday the death toll had risen to 154, with 149 people injured, 33 of them in[…]
The death toll from the collapse of a colonial-era suspension bridge in India’s western Gujarat state has risen to 132, according to officials, as rescue workers worked through the night, combing the Machhu River for survivors. Harsh Sanghavi, Gujarat’s home minister, told reporters that the death toll rose from 68[…]
A foreign national shop owner has appeared in the Sekhukhune Magistrate’s Court, outside Jane Furse, in Limpopo, on a murder charge. This follows the death of a 15-year-old boy at Schoonoord in the area. The deceased, Tokologo Letageng is said to have been stabbed in the head allegedly by a[…]
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