Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has warned organisers of a national shutdown not to come to the Mother City. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) are planning to bring the country to a standstill on 20 March over load shedding, and will also be calling for the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The EFF says there will be no school or work, and has called on public transport operators to not […]
Acting Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing in the Phala Phala farm scandal, however she’s made adverse findings against the police for their handling of the matter. Gcaleka, in the preliminary report, on the much-anticipated investigation says she’s found no basis to conclude that Ramaphosa contravened the Executive Ethics code. The alleged breach of the latter code is the only basis for Gcaleka […]
Xi Jinping was handed a third term as Chinese president on Friday, capping a rise that has seen him become the country's most powerful leader in generations. His appointment by China's rubber-stamp parliament comes after Xi locked in another five years as head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October. Since then, the 69-year-old has weathered widespread protests over his zero-COVID policy and the deaths of countless people after […]
The Western Cape health department said operations at all health facilities in the province are back to normal. This as the National Education, Health, and Allied Workers (Nehawu) strike in the province continues. Negotiations between the employer and the union are still underway. The workers have been staging demonstrations since Monday in demand of a 10% wage increase while the employer is offering 4.7%. Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo […]
The Western Cape Education Department has welcomed the arrest of 17 people accused of stealing R12 million from the scholar transport grant. The department said that in 2017 it initiated an investigation into financial mismanagement at Atlantis Secondary School. Provincial education spokesperson Bronagh Hammond said that eight of the suspects were department employees, and five of them were staff members at the school. The suspects were due to appear before […]
Istanbul, Turkey – When the bed Hacer Guven, 81, was sleeping in plunged all the way from the fourth floor to the ground floor of her apartment building in Antakya, in Turkey’s southernmost province of Hatay, the impact of the February 6 earthquake was felt as far away as Istanbul, where some of her close relatives lived. “We have this family chat, and everybody is on the group chat trying to […]
One of the first government departments that will cease to exist is the department of public enterprises as the state’s reconfiguration process gets underway. This is what President Cyril Ramaphosa told parliamentarians during his first question and answer session in the National Assembly on Thursday where the downsizing of government departments took center stage. “The ministry of public enterprises will cease to exist because the entities overseen by the minister […]
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to advance a bill aimed at repealing the 2002 authorisation that greenlit the US invasion of Iraq. The committee on Wednesday approved the measure, led by Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Todd Young, with a 13-8 vote. It would repeal both the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), as well as the longer-standing 1991 AUMF. 'We need to put the Iraq War […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the National Education, Health, and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu)’s essential service workers who are on strike, that the no-work-no-pay principle will apply. He was addressing the National Assembly in the Good Hope Chamber in Parliament during his oral reply session for the first quarter. Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Chief Whip Narend Singh wanted to know how police would intervene to curb the violent nature of the strike. […]
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.
