Moegammad Fasiegh Petersen, Author at Voice of the Cape

Short-term measures needed to address the high unemployment: Labour expert

Labour Law Specialist Andrew Levy says the unemployment rate is largely expected to be elevated in the fourth quarter of 2022. This comes as Statistics South Africa prepares to release that period’s job numbers in its Quarterly Labour Force Survey. The official unemployment rate decreased by 1% from 33.9% in the second quarter, to 32.9% in the third quarter of 2022. According to the expanded definition, a person need not […]

28 February 2023

International

After helping earthquake victims, this Palestinian was killed by an Israeli rampage

Four days ago, Sameh al-Aqtash returned from Turkey, where he had been supporting earthquake victims as a volunteer. On Sunday evening, the 37-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli settlers rampaging through his village, Zatara, in the occupied West Bank. Zatara is located south of Nablus, near an infamous Israeli military checkpoint where, according to residents, soldiers abuse Palestinians on a daily basis. Only 100 people live in Zatara and they are all members of the same family. […]

28 February 2023

Local

Pravin Gordhan reveals he was the minister De Ruyter told about corruption at Eskom

Public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan has confirmed that he was the minister former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter talked to about another senior official allegedly benefiting from the corruption at Eskom but he dismissed these as “allusions”. During the interview with presenter Annika Larsen broadcast on eNCA last week, De Ruyter made several allegations of wrongdoing and criminality in the ANC. “I expressed my concern to a senior government minister about attempts, […]

28 February 2023

International

World Bank estimates 6 February earthquakes caused $34.2bn in damage in Turkiye

The two major earthquakes which hit Turkiye on 6 February caused about $34.2 billion in direct physical damage, but total reconstruction and recovery costs facing the country could be twice as high, the World Bank said on Monday, Reuters reports. The Bank estimates that the earthquakes would also shave at least half a percentage point off Turkiye's forecast gross domestic product growth of 3.5 per cent to 4 per cent in 2023, Humberto […]

28 February 2023

Local

Parliament’s extended Electoral Act deadline ends today

Parliament’s second and last extended Constitutional Court deadline to amend the Electoral Act, officially ends on Tuesday. The national legislature, however, finalised amending the Act five days before the February 28 deadline. This comes after the National Assembly (NA) passed the Electoral Amendment Bill on Thursday with 218 MPs voting in favour of the Bill and 81 objections. There were no abstentions. It is now up to the president to […]

28 February 2023

Local

Robben Island Kramat “Remembered as a Symbol of Struggle and Faith”

On February 26, 2023, hundreds of South Africans from all over gathered at the Nelson Mandela Gateway (V & A Waterfront) in Cape Town to board boats and travel to Robben Island, where the Cape Mazaar Society and Cape Urs Committee hosted the annual Urs of Sayed Abdurahman Motura (RA). Visitors were eager to board the boats from as early as 5:30am, the Urs celebrations began early in the morning […]

27 February 2023

International

Water levels in Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers hit new lows

The water levels in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq have decreased to unprecedented levels as Iraqi officials yesterday pledged to take measures to address the crisis. In the city of Nasiriyah, the centre of Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq, an AFP photographer said he was able to see the bed of the Euphrates River from its banks. Baghdad has repeatedly accused its neighbours Turkiye and Iran […]

27 February 2023

Local

Social grants in relation to food prices

By Lee-Yandra Paulsen “Social grants are essentially spent on food and if you look at our food basket which increased with 12%. This means even with the increase for social grant, people receiving these grants can buy less food this year compared to last year.” This is according to the Programme Coordinator at the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity Group, Mervyn Abrahams who spoke to VOC Breakfast on Monday morning […]

27 February 2023

International

Palestinian killed as Israeli settlers set West Bank town ablaze in ‘revenge’ attack

Israeli settlers set fire to large portions of the northern West Bank town of Hawara Sunday evening following two fatal shootings carried out by a Palestinian gunman hours earlier. At least one Palestinian identified as Sameh Hamdullah Mahmoud Aktech was killed during the evening attack, according to the Palestine Ministry of Health. He was shot several times in the abdomen. Homes, shops, cars and agricultural land were set ablaze in Hawara, a town just outside of Nablus, with locals […]

27 February 2023

Moegammad Fasiegh

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