The ministerial task team President Jacob Zuma set up to look into the crisis in higher education was an attempt to avoid dealing with the real crisis, some student leaders said on Wednesday. "He can’t go around establishing task teams and commissions, when all we want is free education. At this rate he will set up a commission for a mere pothole," University of Limpopo student leader Isaac Hlungwana said. […]
ANC heavyweights including former president , veteran Ahmed Kathrada, tourism minister Derek Hanekom and former speaker, Max Sisulu will be present to lend their support to Pravin Gordhan when he appears in court on fraud charges in November. The National Prosecuting Authority has announced that is pursuing fraud charges against the finance minister in relation to his approval of an early retirement package for senior SARS official, Ivan Pillay. Kathrada […]
More Palestinian solidarity groups are adding their voices for the South African ambassador to Israel to be recalled. Sisa Ngombane has angered activists for his comments at a press conference on Friday, in which he defended Israeli aggression against Palestinians. Ngombane had meant to share the South African government’s official position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after the arrest and detention of local activist and academic Leigh-Ann Naidoo in international waters […]
Two South African siblings from Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape detained by authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have been released. Two others siblings are still in detention and are also expected to be released soon. Huda, Waliyullah, Yumna and Waseeyullah who are studying in Madina Saudi Arabia were arrested in November last year after they returned to the kingdom following their Ramadan break in South Africa. It’s […]
There are renewed calls by the Palestinian solidarity movement for the South Africa’s ambassador for Israel to be recalled. Sisi Ngombane is in hot water after comments made at a press conference on Friday, to welcome back SA activist Leigh Ann Naidoo from the Women’s Boat to Gaza. Naidoo returned home on Friday following her illegal capture and detention by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). Ngombane strayed from the South […]
Hurricane-ravaged Haiti is struggling to cope with a rise in cholera cases with officials warning that contaminated water and a lack of hygiene are posing a risk to thousands of people in the impoverished country. Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, ploughed through Haiti on Tuesday, killing at least 877 people and levelling huge swaths of the country's south. While the capital and biggest city, Port-au-Prince, […]
A car bomb attack on a military station has killed at least eight soldiers in the Hakkari province of southeast Turkey, according to state media. Sunday's attack in the Semdinli district also resulted in at least five injuries, Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported, citing a statement by the Turkish armed forces. Ambulances were sent to the area, Reuters news agency reported. Anadolu attributed the attack to the PKK, or the […]
The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen said on Sunday it will investigate an air raid that killed more than 140 people, after Washington announced it was reviewing support for the alliance. The Houthi rebels have blamed the Arab coalition for Saturday's attack, one of the deadliest since it launched a military campaign against the insurgents in March last year. The attack could further sour US-Saudi ties already strained over […]
A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem Sunday and again as police chased him, killing two people, authorities said, after concerns over the potential for a new upsurge in violence. The gunman was killed soon after carrying out the attack near police headquarters, close to the line dividing mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem from the mostly Jewish western sector of the city. The shooting rampage comes at a time […]
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.
