NATIONAL Stage 3 load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Monday afternoon until 5am on Tuesday. The enforced power cuts will revert to stage 2 between 5am and 4pm on Tuesday before the higher stage returns for the afternoon and evening. This is due to a high level of breakdowns and depleted emergency generation reserves. An update is expected from Eskom on Tuesday. Source: TimesLIVE Photo: Supplied
LOCAL Gatesville’s Abirah Dekhta, who was located in Khayelitsha after ten days, has been reunited with her family. It follows a joint operation wherein SAPS members from various specialised units and City of Cape Town’s law enforcement officials recovered her from a shack in Town Two on Monday evening. The eight-year-old was kidnapped in Gatesville while in her scholar transport on November 4th. Reports indicate that two armed suspects blocked […]
LOCAL The MJC SA has expressed its support for Turkiye following a deadly explosion in the capital of Istanbul this weekend. Reports indicate that a suspect has been arrested, after a bomb went off in a busy street, claiming at least six lives and wounding over 80 others. In a statement, the MJC condemned the bomb attack and extended condolences for victims and prayers for the wounded. The council further […]
INTERNATIONAL US intelligence officials have reportedly claimed that the United Arab Emirates attempted to manipulate the American political system, despite being a close political ally. Three unnamed sources told the Washington Post that the National Intelligence Council compiled a document and briefed senior US policymakers on how the UAE had attempted to influence American foreign policy towards the Gulf state. The National Intelligence Council compiled the intelligence report to guide US policymakers in their decision-making regarding […]
INTERNATIONAL Bahrain heads to the polls on Saturday with a record number of people standing in the elections despite a ban on opposition candidates running in the Gulf state's parliamentary and municipal elections. More than 330 candidates, including 73 women, are competing to join the 40-seat council of representatives, the lower house of parliament that advises King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. Images posted online showed Bahrainis waiting in line at […]
INTERNATIONAL The lawyer for Egypt's jailed hunger-striker Alaa Abdel Fattah said Sunday he had been denied access to his client for a second time in days, as fears for the activist's health mount. Seven months into a hunger strike, Abdel Fattah began refusing water on 6 November as world leaders arrived in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the COP27 climate summit. Cop27: Hundreds march to free Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel […]
INTERNATIONAL At least six people were killed and 81 wounded, including two critically, after an explosion hit Istiklal Avenue in the historic Beyoglu district in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, Vice President Fuat Oktay said. "We consider it to be a terrorist act as a result of a female attacker, detonating the bomb," Oktay said. In earlier remarks on Sunday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking to reporters ahead of his departure to the G20 summit in […]
NATIONAL Umalusi has highlighted its concerns over incidents that have marred the 2022 matric exams. These include a mathematics paper which had an error in it, the prematurerelease of two question papers still to be written and protest action which delayed or caused pupils to miss their exams. In a statement, Umalusi's spokesperson Biki Lepota said they were concerned about the error in the mathematics paper 2 administered by the […]
NATIONAL The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa has responded to calls for him to step aside, stating he has not been charged for any crime. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, briefed the media on Sunday on the president’s public engagements for the week ahead. “The president has not been charged of any crime,” Magwenya said. “There are investigations that are taking place in this regard. The constitutionally-enshrined presumption of innocence until […]
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.
