LOCAL Western Cape law enforcement officials who lost their lives in the line of duty this past year will be honoured with a wreath-laying ceremony in Cape Town on Monday. The provincial Mobility Minister, Daylin Mitchell, says relatives of some of the fallen heroes will join him in paying tribute[…]
A ceremony was organised in the Gaza Strip on Monday to commemorate South Africa’s anti-apartheid icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu, Anadolu News Agency reports.. Organized by the Council of International Relations, a Gaza-based NGO, the ceremony was attended by a host of Palestinian and South African figures, including South[…]
Tear-jerking tributes have continued to flood in from all corners of the globe, following the demise of the esteemed Moulana Muhammad Taha Karaan. In the early hours of Friday morning, The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) announced that the 51-year-old, mufti of the council, had succumbed to Covid-19 at Gatesville Medical[…]
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has paid tribute to City Press executive editor Dumisane Lubisi who died of heart failure on Friday night. According to the newspaper’s managing editor Rhodé Marshall, Lubisi, 44, had previously worked at African Eye news agency, This Day newspaper, and the Sunday Times[…]
South Africa has lost a “giant’ with the death of South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) deputy chairperson Devikarani Priscilla Sewpal Jana on Saturday, the SAHRC said in paying tribute to the anti-apartheid struggle lawyer. “South Africa has lost a giant who sacrificed herself selflessly for us all to enjoy[…]
SA Rugby president Mark Alexander paid tribute to former rugby legend and national representative Yusuf Moerat who died in Paarl on Sunday. Moerat, who received national colours in rugby and provincial colours in cricket and tennis, turned 91 on November 2, 2019, on the day the Springboks won the Rugby[…]
Tributes have poured in following the death of Advocate Hishaam Mohamed, the former provincial head of the Justice Department, who had since 2019 been an ANC MP. Advocate Hishaam Mohamed passed away last night due to a heart attack. Having held various titles in the social justice sector since high[…]
France paid tribute on Friday to the 130 mostly young people killed in Paris two weeks ago by gunmen and suicide bombers in the most deadly attacks the nation has seen since World War Two. Blue-white-and-red French flags hung from the windows of public buildings and private homes as hundreds[…]
“The greatest memory I have of my father is that he was always humming. When I was a child, I observed it and always wondered what he was saying. Only years later did I understand that he was praising the Prophet (saw). He was in a constant state of thikr[…]
Tributes continued to pour in on Monday for Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane, killed in a car accident at the weekend. Chabane, his driver and a bodyguard crashed into a truck making a U-turn on the N1 near Polokwane around 1am on Sunday. A breathalyser test taken shortly[…]
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