JOHANNESBURG – The equality court will on Tuesday deliver judgment in the ‘Apartheid flag’ case. The Nelson Mandela Foundation made an application to the court against the display of the old flag. It says the display constitutes hate speech, unfair discrimination and harassment based on race. WATCH: The NMF challenges displays of the apartheid[…]
Nicole Dlamini* was locked up in a holding cell and harassed by a police officer when she went to the station to report her abusive lover. Her sin was that the officer, who interrogated and detained her, was a former school buddy of her lover. Dlamini had gone to a[…]
A Melbourne court has sentenced Cardinal George Pell, a former close ally of Pope Francis, to six years behind bars with a possibility of parole. Pell was found guilty of five counts of historic child sex crimes. As he delivered the hugely anticipated verdict, Chief Judge Peter Kidd said that[…]
Seven years after he made sexually suggestive remarks to a 13-year-old in his class, a Cape Town teacher’s attempts to clear his name have suffered their fifth defeat. Monde Chris Satani, who is still teaching at Bardale Primary School in Mfuleni, has been ordered by the Labour Court in Cape[…]
Saudi activists, including women, arrested in a government crackdown this year have faced sexual harassment and torture during interrogation, Amnesty International said. Since May, the kingdom has held at least 10 women and seven men on vague national security allegations related to their human rights work. Those arrested include Loujain[…]
The family of Ahed Tamimi, the Palestinian teenager who garnered international attention after being detained and sentenced to eight months in prison for slapping an Israeli soldier, released on Monday footage of the 17-year-old girl being interrogated by Israeli officers in the days following the arrest. Because she is a[…]
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