Today, South Africans took to voting stations around the country asserting their democratic right to vote in the Local Municipal Elections. Residents ventured to nearby schools, churches, and civic centers where the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) stations were housed, with many voters saying that they voted for change. Addressing media,[…]
One of South Africa’s key problems is that a third of the population of 57 million, are excluded from the economy, said Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa delivered an address at the ABSIP Summit about transformation in the investment industry, on Monday. When it comes to addressing some of the[…]
This week, the Institute of Palestine and South Africa (IPSA) in collaboration with the In Transformation Initiative (ITI) have conducted the second session of the Forum for Dialogue for Palestine; ‘The Future of Palestine’s National Project’. While the initiative began in 2015, the first of the four sessions was hosted[…]
A remarkable dinosaur fossil discovery made by a South African palaeontologist in 2005 has finally revealed its secrets. The fossil, the most complete ever found of a species known as Heterodontosaurus tucki, was recently scanned at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the[…]
Hacktivists claiming to be linked to Anonymous have breached the website of South African government owned arms supplier Armscor. The hacktivists, working under the banner of ‘Operation Africa’, told website HackRead.com that they breached Armscor’s settlement and invoicing system. Armscor is the officially appointed acquisition organisation for the South African[…]
South African Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies wants Zimbabwe to reverse a decision to ban imports of goods from the continent’s most-industrialised economy. “The minister is engaging through SADC structures and in his capacity with his counterparts,” Sidwell Medupe, a spokesman for the department, said by phone on Monday,[…]
This piece was written by Paul Saint-Rose, a student from Reunion Island working at VOC as part of a cultural exchange programme. It forms part of a series called Through Foreign Eyes, in which foreigners share their thoughts on Cape Town’s unique culture. There is in the Indian Ocean a[…]
OPINION by Ibrahim Vawda While Narendra Modi’s visit to our shores may be generally welcomed, the Media Review Network does have serious reservations about the visit. We remind our Government that the Indian Prime Minister has a checkered history which raises many unanswered questions. Narendra Modi, is a member of[…]
Seven contractors, including three Australians and a South African, have been released four days after they were kidnapped by gunmen in southern Nigeria, officials said. Police had given conflicting accounts of how many had been seized and what their nationalities were but they all worked for cement company Lafarge and[…]
Yet another white woman has stirred a social media racial storm after she was captured on video hurling racial slurs at the police and calling black people k*****s. The woman motorist can be heard saying: “The calibre of blacks in this town (Joburg) varies from the calibre of blacks in[…]
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