Parents and residents of Idas Valley protested at Lückhoff High School in Idas Valley, Stellenbosch, on Tuesday after a second bullying video came to light, Netwerk24 reported. The video was shared on social media just days after a video surfaced which showed a girl being assaulted at the school. Instead of intervening, her school mates had taken a video of the attack. In the second video, the attacker was also […]
A man suspected of murdering a Khayelitsha woman in her home and then dumping her body in a public toilet is expected to appear in court on Thursday, Western Cape police said. Her body was found in the toilet in RR Block in the informal settlement at 08:00 on Monday, Captain Frederick van Wyk said on Wednesday. She was believed to have been murdered in her home in Site C, […]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will face questions on the minimum wage and the relationship between the legislature and the executive in the National Assembly on Wednesday. The deputy president will be answering oral questions for the last time this year. He will also face questions on government's plans to curb the growth of HIV/Aids in adolescent girls and young women. Both African Christian Democratic Party leader Kenneth Meshoe and United […]
Scores have died and dozens were feared trapped in rubble after a strong earthquake struck off the coast of Aceh province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, officials and local media said. The province's army chief, Major General Tatang Sulaiman, told the DPA news agency that 92 people have died in the shallow 6.5-magnitude undersea quake that struck early on Wednesday. The national disaster mitigation agency on the other hand, […]
A 13-foot-high golden effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly erected in the centre of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel's "culture war" on artistic expression on Tuesday, sparking online controversy and political debate. The gilded statue was raised overnight in front of the Tel Aviv city hall in Yitzhak Rabin Square, named after the former PM who was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish militant in 1995. Dubbed […]
The Syrian army seized control of the whole of Aleppo's Old City overnight on Tuesday, after rebels pulled out of the last areas under their control, sites close to the government reported. The reports were corroborated on Wednesday morning by the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which said that rebels had pulled out of the last remaining districts of Bab al-Hadid and Aqyul. The advance on the ground has […]
US President-elect Donald Trump laid out a US military policy on Tuesday that would avoid interventions in foreign conflicts and instead focus heavily on defeating the Islamic State (IS) group. In the latest stop on a "thank you" tour of states critical to his 8 November election win, Trump introduced his choice for defence secretary, General James Mattis, to a large crowd in North Carolina, near the Fort Bragg military […]
Nearly 60 people are missing five days after a ship sank off Yemen's remote Socotra island, its fisheries minister said on Wednesday, with state media reporting that only two people had been rescued. The boat went missing five days ago while heading from Yemen's southeastern port city of Mukalla towards Socotra with some 60 people on board, among them women and children, fisheries minister Fahd Kavieen said. Socotra lies in […]
By Ra-ees Moerat After the leadership of Cosatu gathered last week, the trade union made public its findings on service delivery in the Western Cape. Regional secretary of Cosatu, Tony Ehrenreich says that the score allocations for service delivery in the Western Cape are based on the audit conducted by their own members. “We look at all the areas of service delivery of government and based on the consensus of […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
