Moegammad Fasiegh Petersen, Author at Voice of the Cape

Universities to accommodate delay in release of matric marks, assures Umalusi

Education quality assurance body Umalusi said matriculants waiting to submit their final results at universities would not miss admission deadlines. Umalusi assured pupils that tertiary institutions were cognisant of the delay in the release of matric results, and would adjust their admission dates accordingly. In previous years, final matric results were released in the first week of January. However, this year, they will be released on the 20th. The Department […]

7 January 2023

Local

2 men drown in separate incidents in the Cape

Two men drowned in separate incidents on the Southern Cape coastline this week. In the first, National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) crews from Mossel Bay and Wilderness were called out on Thursday to help search for a man who went missing in Oubaai, near George. It was understood the man took a walk along the shoreline on Wednesday, but never returned. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon said the man's body was […]

7 January 2023

News

Makaneta calls on Higher Education Minister to help students for 2023

“The Foundation for Education and Social Justice Africa is saying we want to appeal to the Higher Education Minister Dr. Blade Nzimande to collaborate with university vice-chancellors to help students for the 2023 academic year,” said the Foundation for Education and Social Justice Africa’s, Hendrick Makaneta. He further expressed to VOC Breakfast on Friday morning that he would like the minister of higher education to place a halt on academic […]

6 January 2023

News

The body of an adult missing man has been found at Fransmans Hoek

By Kouthar Sambo On Thursday, 5 January, National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Wilderness and NSRI Mossel Bay assisted police search for an adult man who was reported to have gone for a walk along the shoreline when he failed to return home the previous day. According to JC Roos, NSRI Mossel Bay Station Commander, the NSRI Mossel Bay duty crew was activated, following reports of a man being washed into […]

6 January 2023

International

World’s ‘most wanted people smuggler’ arrested in Sudan

An Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with UAE authorities, Interpol announced. Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African migrants seeking passage to Europe were allegedly kidnapped, raped and extorted. Habtemariam, the subject of two Interpol red notices by Ethiopia and the Netherlands, was […]

6 January 2023

International

Investigation concludes Saudi Arabia infiltrated Wikipedia with agents to control content

Saudi Arabia infiltrated Wikipedia by recruiting the organisation's highest-ranked administrators in the country as government agents, in a bid to control content on the website, activists said Thursday, citing the investigation. Wikimedia, the parent company of Wikipedia, terminated all of its administrators in Saudi Arabia in December after an internal investigation. “Wikimedia’s investigation revealed that the Saudi government had infiltrated the highest ranks in Wikipedia’s team in the region,” Democracy […]

6 January 2023

International

The Middle East and its move away from oil and gas

In 2022, the biggest energy issue in the Middle East was Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cut as the world economy entered into a period of 'heightened uncertainty and rising challenges'. In October, OPEC cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a fourth time since April and also trimmed next year's figure, citing slowing economies, the resurgence of China's COVID-19 containment measures and high inflation. […]

6 January 2023

International

Longest-serving Palestinian prisoner released from Israeli jail after 40-year sentence

Karim Younis, one of the longest-serving Palestinian prisoners, was released on Thursday after spending 40 years in an Israeli jail. The 66-year-old who holds Israeli citizenship received a hero's welcome in his hometown of Arara with dozens of family, friends and supporters greeting him with Palestinian flags and national chants. Shortly after his release, he visited his mother's grave, who died eight months ago, and his father's, who died 10 years ago. He was […]

5 January 2023

International

Will Erdogan hand the refugees back to the Syrian regime?

INTERNATIONAL Last week, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar met with his Russian and Syrian counterparts, Sergei Shoigu and Ali Mahmoud Abbas respectively, in Moscow, in what was the first official contact between Ankara and Damascus at the ministerial level in eleven years. The heads of Turkish and Syrian intelligence were also there. The Moscow meeting came after statements made by Turkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the roadmap to normalisation […]

5 January 2023

Moegammad Fasiegh

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