Local star gazers are in for a treat this week as the annual Perseid meteor shower is set to light up the sky. Away from the major cities the stars will come out to play, especially late on Wednesday and Thursday night. The annual Perseid meteor shower has arrived, and while[…]
Communities will be mobilized to speak out against the blight of corruption in South Africa with a number of events planned over the next week. On Tuesday evening a public meeting attempting to tackle the issue of corruption in South Africa was held at the historic Community House in Salt River.[…]
South Africa is not a failed state as some people are claiming, and it can be changed for the better if the DA is voted into power, party leader Mmusi Maimane said on Sunday. “South Africa is at a critical juncture in its history. Our economy is in crisis and[…]
The South Africans detained in China were arrested for suspected espionage, the Freedom Front Plus said on Thursday. “While the government is drawing a veil over the matter and deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa is denying that he is personally dealing with the matter on the highest level in China, the[…]
The Media Review Network (MRN) has welcomed government’s quick response in acting on the arrest of 10 South African nationals in China, but in the same breathe has questioned its failure to respond in the same manner with regards to the Sheikh Abdus Salaam Jad Bassiouni case.The 10 individuals are[…]
Ten South Africans are being held in custody in China, after they were arrested on at the Erdos airport while travelling to Inner Mongolia on Friday. Gift of the Givers said the South African’s were travelling with a group of Britons and an Indian national to explore ancient China. It[…]
While there has been significant improvements in the country since it achieved democracy, it still has problems that must not be hidden away, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Thursday. “In every area you want to look [in the country since 1994] there has been progress, but there are[…]
The ebola virus, economic decline in some countries, and South Africa’s new immigration regulations are to blame for the drop in tourist arrivals to South Africa, Grant Thornton Advisory Services said on Monday. About 150 000 fewer tourists visited South Africa in the first quarter of the year compared to[…]
Everyday war, poverty and political unrest force people to leave their homelands in search of asylum and refuge in other countries. The United Nations estimates that by the end of 2014, almost 60 million people were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict generalised violence or human rights[…]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Thursday cancelled a trip to South Africa to attend the African Union Summit after a group of lawyers filed an official legal request for his arrest. The Egyptian president was supposed to arrive Friday in Johannesburg to lead his country’s delegation in the African[…]
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