Palestinians in a number of refugee camps across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday reportedly closed main roads near the camps to protest a possible decision by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees to delay the school year. Ahmad Abu Kheiran, the head of a popular committee in the southern[…]
OPINION by Nabila Ismail – The Democratic Alliance (DA) controlled Cape Town City Council must be reminded that Freedom of Expression in our country is protected by our constitution. Furthermore, any attempt to re-introduce an Apartheid /oppressive style regime in our country will be vehemently opposed by all South Africans.[…]
While uncertainty remains as to whether the City of Cape Town will grant a permit for a protest at the Pharrells Williams concert in Cape Town, the Media Review Network (MRN) has come to the defence of pro-Palestine supporters. In a statement on Thursday, the media advocacy group said attempt[…]
Stellenbosch University rector and vice chancellor Professor Wim de Villiers has slammed a protest, which broke out in a lecture hall at the university on Monday morning. A student sent News24 a video of the disruption, saying the objections emanated from the university’s language policy and was led by members[…]
The Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement in South Africa (BDS SA) has refuted allegations it walked out a meeting with the City of Cape Town, after the two parties met on Thursday over the organisations plans to stage a protest outside a Pharrell Williams concert in September. BDS are optimistically[…]
Protesters have poured into New York’s Times Square to denounce the Iran nuclear deal as a threat to Israel and global security, demanding that the US Congress reject the pact. Speakers at Wednesday’s rally, including Republican politicians, called on the US Congress to throw the deal out, whipping up the[…]
The war in Yemen has reached a critical point where the most recent ceasefire that was meant to last 10 days, only lasted a couple of minutes to two hours. Yemen’s war which started when Houti Rebels seized the capital Sanaa in September 2014 has seen the death toll increase[…]
University of Cape Town SRC chairperson Ramabina Mahapa said on Wednesday they have always supported the rights of minorities and specifically the gay community. Around 20 UCT students staged a brief sit-in of the university’s SRC offices on Tuesday following controversial comments made by an SRC representative regarding LGBT rights.[…]
A service delivery protest closed a portion of the N2 outside Knynsa on Friday afternoon with burning portable toilets and tyres blocking the road. “About 10 to 15 people were carrying these toilets into the road to burn them on top of the tyres. There were about four to five[…]
“We are all Bassiouni” were the chants reverberating through Sandton in Johannesburg on Friday afternoon, as community members and civil society activists called for the release of Egyptian South African alim Shaykh Abdus Salaam Bassiouni. Sandton in Johannesburg came alive with the #FreeBassiouni protest held outside the African Union Summit,[…]
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