With public frustration over the slow pace of service at various branches, the Department of Home Affairs has launched a daily Home Affairs Bulletin. The bulletin is intended to broadcast updates on the volumes being experienced at the various Home Affairs offices in the Cape Metro area twice a day on local and community radio stations. VOC listeners can hear the morning bulletin at 8.50 am in the Breakfast Beat […]
"She was my flower. You plucked her." These were the words Shawn Lewis uttered to his 10-year-old daughter’s killer on Monday before he collapsed in the witness stand. Lewis, wearing a faded shirt bearing Shamonique Claasen’s picture, cried and struggled to breathe. His thin arms slipped from the wooden stand and he had to be ushered out of courtroom two of the Western Cape High Court. He was testifying in […]
The ANC's National Disciplinary Committee has found ANC Western Cape provincial chairperson Marius Fransman guilty on two counts of misconduct and has suspended his ANC membership for five years. The two counts of misconduct related to "abusing his office for the purpose of attempting to obtain a sexual favour from Louisa Wynand, and for making public statements which brought the ANC into disrepute", the ANC said in a statement on […]
Marriage, a journey through life that many women aspire to embark upon, in the minds of the romantic is viewed as a testing but wonderful experience. However, for many South African women, who wed non-south Africans, nuptials are accompanied by great difficulties. For one South African wife and mother, known only as Zohyroh, marriage was anything but a bed of roses. After marrying her Egyptian husband, Muhammad* in 2008, six […]
The recent death of a Cape Town man in police custody has raised alarm within the Cape Town community about ‘stop-and-search’ police operations. Last week, Nadeem Khan died in police custody after police accused him of being in possession of a stolen cell-phone. Khan was arrested outside a local mall in Rondebosch East where he was meeting a friend who intended to purchase a cell-phone. During the incident, Khan called […]
The family of a 37 year old man who died in police custody have hired a private forensic investigator to determine what caused their son’s death. Nadeem Khan was arrested last week on suspicion of trying to sell a stolen cell phone in the Rondebosch shopping hub. The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) confirmed that the suspect was put at the back of the police vehicle, while he was handcuffed […]
In a forceful rebuke of the American political establishment, Donald J. Trump on Tuesday was elected the 45th president of the United States. His improbable win followed one of the most wildly unpredictable and bitter campaigns in the nation's history. Trump, the billionaire real estate developer and reality TV star, defeated former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton in a stunning upset, running the table in battleground states across the […]
The family of a Cape Town man who died in police custody say they want answers from police as to why he was arrested. Speculation surrounding the death of 37-year-old Nadeem Khan has made headlines after he was arrested for allegedly trying to sell a stolen cell phone. Khan was arrested in Rondebosch when police received a tip off that someone was trying to sell a stolen cell phone in […]
Dear Mr President, This is my second open letter to you. I am a naturalized South African of Palestinian origin. I earned a PhD from the University of Johannesburg and lectured at the-then Vista University in Soweto and University of Johannesburg. The lessons that I learned from your struggle against apartheid are a torch in my life and an inspiration to all the Palestinian people in their fight for freedom, […]
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.
