The Department of Community Safety in the Western Cape will be embarking on a 16 days of activism campaign from Friday across various areas on the cape flats. MEC Dan Plato said their campaign is aimed at empowering communities to understand the police’s role in protesting women and children from[…]
The Kensington Factreton Residents and Ratepayers Association (KFRRA) has no objection to residents of Du Noon being relocated to Transnet land in Kensington, as long as the needs of the people already living in the area are met. This was according to KFRRA chairperson Dawood Essack on Wednesday after concerned[…]
“Hands off Al Aqsa” – this was the loud and simple call at a protest march in Cape Town on Wednesday in response to continuous attacks on Masjidul Asqa in the occupied territories of Palestine in East Jerusalem. In support of a the Hands Off Al Aqsa campaign on social[…]
Pro-Palestine supporters belted out their outrage while taking to the streets of Cape Town on Wednesday against the atrocities unfolding Masjidul Asqa in Jerusalem. In a demonstration led by the Muslim Judicial Council and the Al Quds Foundation, and supported by the Jewish Voice for a Just Peace, locals vocalised[…]
A few hundred people have made their way to Parliament for a protest march in defence of Masjidul Aqsa. This comes as violence continues to erupt at the mosque compound – the third most sacred in Islam. Israeli police clashed with Palestinian worshipers inside the Al Aqsa compound as right-wing Israeli[…]
As Muslims around the world watch the violence unfolding at Masjidul Aqsa with shock and horror, a social media campaign called #handsoffAlAqsa has gained popularity on Twitter. Locally, the Cape Town Muslim community will march through the city’s streets on Wednesday to draw attention to the ongoing clashes between Palestinians[…]
Upset over a lack of interest shown towards their concerns about soaring gang violence in their area, residents of Bonteheuwel took to the streets on Sunday to voice their displeasure. In a march to the Bishop Lavis police station, which was led by the Bonteheuwel Joint Peace Forum (JPF), the[…]
The community of Bonteheuwel have reached a boiling point in their plight to restore the peace to the gang infested area. On Sunday, the Bontheuwel Joint Peace Forum (BJPF) and residents plan on marching to the Bishop Lavis police station to get the attention of local police officials, who they[…]
The AIDS Legal Network (ALN) in a joint campaign with twelve other local civil organisations took to the streets of Mitchells Plain to march against gender violence on Wednesday. The march began in Tafelsig and moved through Beacon Valley, two areas Mitchells Plain plagued by violence against women. According to[…]
Tens of thousands of people held protests across Mexico, joining tearful families of 43 missing students demanding their return amid fears a police-backed gang executed them. Parents of the victims traveled from Guerrero, where the students disappeared, to head a march of thousands of people in Mexico City on Wednesday,[…]
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