Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

Gulf states splurged on Trump hotel rooms during Qatar blockade ‘lobbying blitz’

INTERNATIONAL Newly released documents reveal the extent of rival Gulf states' spending at Donald Trump's Washington DC hotel as they sought to influence the US president at the height of the Saudi-led blockade of Qatar. The documents are set to raise fresh questions about Trump's dealings with Gulf states, and whether he sought to profit from those relationships, as he announced on Tuesday that he would run again for the […]

17 November 2022

International

Egypt: Alaa Abd el-Fattah ends hunger strike

INTERNATIONAL British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has ended his hunger strike, according to a note his family received from prison in Egypt on Tuesday. The detainee had been on hunger strike for more than seven months to protest against his imprisonment. The note, addressed to his mother Laila Soueif, said he had "broken" his strike, which he began on 2 April. Last week the imprisoned activist began refusing water too, coinciding with […]

16 November 2022

International

No, Iran has not sentenced 15,000 protesters to death

INTERNATIONAL Canadian President Justin Trudeau has faced criticism after claiming that almost 15,000 people had been sentenced to death in Iran over their participation in the Mahsa Amini protests. In a tweet on Tuesday - later deleted - Trudeau expressed solidarity with weekslong demonstrations over the death of Amini, a Kurdish woman who died after being detained by the Iranian morality police over "inappropriate hijab". "Canada denounces the Iranian regime’s barbaric decision to […]

16 November 2022

International

US Navy intercepts ‘massive’ shipment of explosives from Iran to Yemen

INTERNATIONAL The US Navy said Tuesday it had scuttled a boat transporting "explosive materials" from Iran to supply Houthi rebels in Yemen with enough power to fuel a dozen ballistic rockets. The boat, which the US Navy seized on 8 November in the Gulf of Oman, was sunk on Sunday, the Bahrain-based United States Fifth Fleet said. "The vessel and its four Yemeni crew members were intercepted while transiting from Iran along a route historically used […]

16 November 2022

International

Protest by Muslim-American families wounded by the ‘war on terror’

INTERNATIONAL It's been more than six years, but Suad Abdelaziz still cannot believe what happened to her cousin. In June 2016, a US court found 25-year-old Muhanad Badawi guilty of "aiding and abetting the attempt to provide material support" to the Islamic State (IS) group. According to prosecutors, her cousin had purchased a one-way ticket for his friend, Nader Elhuzayel, to travel to Syria to join IS. The Department of Justice said both men had drawn […]

16 November 2022

International

Netanyahu’s far-right allies complicate expansion of Abraham Accords

INTERNATIONAL Benjamin Netanyahu promised to expand peace deals with Arab states after being tapped to form a new Israeli government, but he will have to contend with far-right and ultra-zionist allies who could complicate those efforts. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he would work on "further peace deals, peace through strength, peace in exchange for peace, with additional Arab countries - and thus, to a large extent, end the Israeli-Arab conflict”. […]

16 November 2022

Local

COCT concerned over a lack of prosecutions

LOCAL The City of Cape Town's Safety and Security Directorate's JP Smith has called for an enquiry into the status of hundreds of drug arrest cases made by officials over the past few months. It comes after the Public Prosecutor reportedly released a suspect arrested for possession of mandrax and tik, because the case was "trivial and stood no reasonable chance of prosecution". A parolee busted with drugs in […]

16 November 2022

Local

SIU recovers R33m from TVET college as it probes corruption at NSFAS

LOCAL The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it has recovered R33.4m from Northlink College in the Western Cape as part of its National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) investigations. This is the first recovery of government money since the SIU was authorised by a proclamation signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa in August to investigate alleged corruption and maladministration at the NSFAS. Northlink College is a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college […]

16 November 2022

Local

ConCourt to hear OUTA’s application regarding AARTO Act

NATIONAL The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday hear an application by the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) for the confirmation of an order made by the High Court in Pretoria, declaring the AARTO Act and the Amendment Act unconstitutional and invalid. The High Court handed down its judgment earlier this year. AARTO is the legislation that provides for the penalising of drivers and operators of motor vehicles guilty of traffic […]

16 November 2022

Tauhierah Salie

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