Moegammad Fasiegh Petersen, Author at Voice of the Cape

Funding requests for the arts and culture are now open

The Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport (DCAS) announced the opening of applications for financing for the arts and culture for the fiscal year 2023–2024 on Monday, January 30, 2023. DCAS provides this grant each year to Western Cape organizations and people that, through their varied activities, support and advance the cultural and creative industries in the region. Funding is provided in a number of categories, including performance […]

30 January 2023

Local

ANC on a ‘path to completely destroy’ SA through load shedding

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has accused the government of not having a plan to bring an end to load shedding. Malema addressed party members at the party's 4th Annual Plenum of the 2nd National People’s Assembly - an event aimed at taking stock of the party's achievements in the last 10 years, according to party secretary Marshall Dlamini. The party's three-day event is taking place in Johannesburg. Malema said […]

29 January 2023

Local

Criminal records of sans who violated covid-19 regulations to be expunged: Parly

South Africans who violated COVID-19 lockdown regulations could soon have their criminal records expunged. Parliament started the process to formulate new legislation in this regard. Tens of thousands of people are sitting with criminal records after the state of disaster was enacted in March 2020. With the regulations now in past - the justice portfolio committee is in the process of formulating new legislation to expunge the criminal records. Police […]

29 January 2023

Local

Clean drinking water, then we pay our water bills: Irate Hammanskraal residents

The residents of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria said they were still subjected to smelly and undrinkable water, years after City of Tshwane officials promised to intervene. Last year, a forensic report by the city found that the infrastructure at the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant was not being maintained and was overstretched. Angry residents from Hammanskraal said they had now resolved not to pay their water bills until they receive clean, […]

29 January 2023

International

Haiti police block streets, break into airport to protest about officer killings

Haitian police officers on Thursday blocked streets and forced their way into the country's main airport to protest against the recent killings of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation. Protesters in civilian clothes who identified themselves as police officers first attacked Prime Minister Ariel Henry's official residence, according to a Reuters witness, and then flooded the airport as Henry was arriving from a trip to […]

28 January 2023

Local

COSATU warns recent repo rate will result in small business closures, job losses

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Friday warned of largescale job losses as small businesses face foreclosure following the increase in the repo rate. The South African Reserve Bank announced a 25-basis points basis hike on Thursday, bringing the repo rate up to 7.25%. This makes it the eighth consecutive hike. Cosatu joined the South African Federation of Trade Unions in its criticism of the central […]

28 January 2023

Local

Al Jama-ah’s Thapelo Amad is Johannesburg’s new mayor

Just a day after the Democratic Alliance’s Mpho Phalatse was removed as mayor of Johannesburg through a no-confidence vote, councillors at the Johannesburg City Council cast their votes for a new mayor. Al Jama-ah's Thapelo Amad is the transitional Johannesburg mayor. He won by 138 votes, while the Phalatse received 81 and and Action SA’s Funzi Ngobeni was supported by 46 councillors. They were nominated earlier on Friday. "I am […]

28 January 2023

International

After Jenin, is a third Palestinian uprising inevitable?

Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank have become commonplace during the last year, with at least 200 Palestinians – fighters and civilians alike – killed as a result. Yet the raid on Thursday in Jenin, when dozens of Israeli special forces attacked a house containing suspected fighters, leading to several hours of intense fighting, was more reminiscent of scenes last witnessed in the city in 2002, during the second Palestinian […]

27 January 2023

Local

Parliament ‘arsonist’ Zandile Mafe refuses to leave his cell for court date for the third time

The man accused of setting fire to parliament was due to appear in the high court in Cape Town on Friday — but refused to leave his prison cell. Zandile Christmas Mafe faces housebreaking with intent to commit terrorism and arson, terrorism, arson and theft charges. He has been in custody since January 2 last year, after a fire gutted the National Assembly building in Cape Town. “He did not […]

27 January 2023

Moegammad Fasiegh

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