Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

Saudi Arabia considers public offering to fund Mecca megaproject

INTERNATIONAL Saudi Arabia has asked US investment bank Lazard for ways to fund construction of its $500bn futuristic desert-city Neom, as well as a $27bn megaproject in the holy city of Mecca. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is considering selling debt from the projects and an initial public offering on the Saudi stock exchange. The sovereign wealth fund is chaired by Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and has more than $600bn in […]

11 November 2022

International

Drought-stricken US southwest pays the price for Gulf-owned farms exporting ‘virtual water’

INTERNATIONAL In Arizona's La Paz county, about two and a half hours from the state capital Phoenix, the community has been facing an increasingly severe issue. They're running out of water. As the entire American southwest faces the worst drought in 1,200 years, underground aquifers are being looked to as a lifeline. But water workers in the county have recently noted that some wells are running dry. At the same time, Saudi and Emirati companies owning or leasing […]

11 November 2022

Local

Stellenbosche university admits need for reform

LOCAL Stellenbosch University says it’s studying the findings and recommendations of the Independent Khampepe Commission of Investigation into allegations of racism at the institution. The university’s rector and vice-chancellor, Wim de Villiers, has received the commission’s report. Stellenbosch University asked for a probe following incidents of alleged racism at the institution in recent years. De Villiers said it’s clear, according to the report, that black personnel and students do not feel […]

10 November 2022

Local

Events leading up to Imam Haron’s death do not make sense: Forensic pathologist

LOCAL A forensic pathologist has told an inquest into the death of struggle cleric, Imam Abdullah Haron, that she’s identified several procedural irregularities in Haron’s post-mortem report in 1970. The reopened inquest is continuing at the High Court in Cape Town. Dr Itumeleng Molefe says the chronology of events leading up to Haron’s death does not make sense. Haron was arrested in May 1969 and detained in Cape Town. He was found dead […]

10 November 2022

Local

Parliament’s ConCourt deadline to amend the Electoral Act a month away

LOCAL Parliament has exactly a month left to meet the extended Constitutional Court (ConCourt) deadline to rectify the defect in the Electoral Act. The national legislature was ordered to ensure that the act allows independent candidates the constitutional right to participate in national and provincial elections. This came after the New Nation Movement and a group of other independent candidates successfully challenged the constitutionality of the act. Constitutional Court Justice, Mbuyiseli […]

10 November 2022

Local

Survey shows 74% of South Africans say country headed in wrong direction

LOCAL Almost three quarters of South Africans believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. This is according to a new nationally representative poll conducted by the Rivonia Circle. “The majority of voters cite unemployment as the biggest issue. Corruption, crime, load-shedding and the cost of living follow unemployment as the major issues South Africans want confronted,” the think-tank said on Wednesday. The survey, which canvassed a sample size […]

10 November 2022

International

Palestinian teen killed after Nablus tomb incursion by Israeli politicians

INTERNATIONAL A Palestinian youth was killed early on Wednesday during an army-protected incursion by far-right Israeli lawmakers at a religious site in Nablus in the occupied West Bank, hours before another Palestinian man was shot dead near Jenin. Mahdi Mohammad Hashash, 15, died in a Nablus hospital after shrapnel hit his body during armed clashes that erupted in the vicinity of Joseph’s Tomb, following the arrival of Israeli forces in […]

10 November 2022

International

Iran army issues warning to ‘rioters’ as security forces struggle to suppress unrest

INTERNATIONAL Iran's Army Ground Forces Commander said, on Wednesday, that "rioters" would have no place in the Islamic Republic if the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered a tougher crackdown on nationwide protests, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported, Reuters reports. "… should he decide to deal with them, rioters will no longer have a place in the country," Brigadier General, Kiumars Heydari said. Anti-government demonstrations erupted in September after the death of […]

10 November 2022

International

Turkey refused Israel’s requests to act against Hamas, says official

INTERNATIONAL Turkey refused to comply with Israeli demands requesting the deportation of Hamas leaders living in the country during bilateral talks, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday at a parliamentary proceeding. Responding to a question from MPs, Cavusoglu said Ankara does not view Hamas, the Palestinian resistance movement that rules the Gaza Strip, as a terror group and refused to expel them. “We didn’t satisfy any [Israeli] request on Hamas, because we don’t perceive Hamas […]

10 November 2022

Tauhierah Salie

Download our new app

Download
our new app