WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of U.S. State Department cables in 2010. WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already posted roughly 60,000 files. Most of[…]
VOC has kick-started its annual Ramadan Kids Project, aimed at rewarding children for their efforts this Ramadan. The station has teamed up with Crescent Lifestyle to make this initiative happen. “We want to motivate children to fast this month and reward them for their efforts especially they are fasting for[…]
A resident in Portlands, Mitchell’s Plain fears his life after his property was nearly fire bombed on Friday morning. A garage door was set alight – an incident which the property owner believes to be the work of immigrants in the area that have threatened his property before. Ridwaan Chalken[…]
Ramadaan has always been a peak season in terms of South Africans visiting the holy lands for umrah, but 2015 has seen something of a decrease in numbers undertaking the journey. The holy cities have historically been flooded with pilgrims during the fasting period, where many choose to spend the[…]
Muslims around the world are observing Ramadaan, and some are fasting under appalling circumstances. The Media Review Network’s Suraya Dadoo looks at some of the most disturbing places: CHINA: Until recently the population of Xinjiang, the largest of China’s administrative regions, was mostly Uighur. Most Uighurs are Muslim, and Islam[…]
President Jacob Zuma and four Cabinet ministers hatched a plot to ensure Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s safe travel out of South Africa, it was reported on Friday. Al-Bashir slipped out of the country moments before judges in the High Court in Pretoria ordered he be arrested. The Sudanese leader was[…]
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is also the African Union (AU) chair, says Africa must establish its own International Criminal Court (ICC) which would be mandated to prosecute Western leaders who have committed crimes on the continent. According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, Mugabe said it was high time Africa[…]
British Airways in South Africa is working with UK authorities to investigate how two suspected stowaways got on to a flight from Johannesburg to London. “We are working with the London metro [Metropolitan Police] and authorities in Johannesburg to establish the facts surrounding this very rare situation,” said Stephen Forbes,[…]
Former tennis star and convicted rapist Bob Hewitt remained stony-faced as the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Friday that he could appeal his effective six year sentence, but not his conviction. “The application for leave to appeal the conviction is refused,” Judge Bert Bam said. “Leave to appeal the[…]
The Yemen peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva have collapsed, with the foreign minister of the government-in-exile blaming the Houthi representatives of refusing to meet with them. Foreign Minister Riad Yassin told Al Jazeera on Friday that his delegation plans to leave the negotiations and return to Saudi[…]
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