The City of Cape Town has announced that its cemeteries will be closed for burials on Christmas Day. Staff will however be on standby for Muslim and Jewish burials, in accordance with religious requirements. Cemeteries will however be open for visitations. The City also urged the public and undertakers to please take note of amended operating hours to avoid disappointment. Residents are advised to consider weekday burials over the festive […]
TikTok has overtaken Google as the most popular website in 2021. This is according to Cloudflare’s 2021 Year In Review Internet Rankings. Last year TikTok held the number eight in the same rankings and Google was on top. Facebook is in the third spot followed by Microsoft and Apple rounded off the top five. Meanwhile, Netflix tops the list for most popular video streaming services followed by Youtube and Roku. Cloudflare says […]
The Gender Equality Commission has welcomed government's announcement that schools will be legally mandated to report teenage pregnancies. It follows shockingly high pregnancy numbers at schools this year, including over 900 girls between 10 and 14 and over 660 under the age of 10. The commission's Jabu Baloyi says rape is a major contributing factor to these figures, calling on families and communities to break the silence and file police […]
Police are calling on the public to come forward with information regarding a car crash on the R300 Highway on Friday. This as police investigate the death of a toddler boy, who was reported missing at Nyanga SAPS. The parents of two-year-old Enkosi Nkolisa confirmed his identity at the mortuary today. Detectives are investigating a case of culpable homicide. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stop on 08600 […]
South Africa has recorded a 142% spike in road crashes with multiple fatalities at the mid-point of the festive season. This is according to the Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, who released the 2021 Preliminary Festive Season Road Statistics today. Minister Mbalula says they are seriously concerned about the high number of major crashes, where five or more people perish in a single incident. He says that many of the […]
The Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer says her department has made progress in placing learners for 2022, though there are currently 602 Grade 1 learners and over 3000 Grade 8s who still do not have places. Over 18 600 places have been made available in order to relieve the pressure on placement in schools. Schäfer says the department has added a further 590 teaching posts.
South Africa’s health department has recorded 15 424 new covid-19 cases reported. Today, a further 35 deaths have been reported, bringing the total to 90 488 deaths. The recovery rate is now 91.3%.
Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of Kabul towards the shuttered United States’ embassy, urging the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets. Holding banners reading, “Let us eat” and “Give us our frozen money”, the protesters chanted slogans and marched down a central avenue on Tuesday, with the ruling Taliban providing security. International funding to Afghanistan has been suspended and billions of dollars of the country’s assets abroad, mostly […]
World powers have condemned a tightly-vetted legislature vote in Hong Kong, saying rules imposed by Beijing that reduced directly elected seats and controlled who could stand, has eroded democracy in the Chinese territory. China has overseen a sweeping crackdown in the former British colony in response to huge and often violent democracy protests that took place two years ago. It imposed a national security law, which introduced political rules that […]
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.
