LOCAL A four-year-old girl who went missing in Paarl in the Western Cape on Sunday was found dead on Monday afternoon. Police spokesperson Capt Frederick van Wyk said the girl was reported missing at the Paarl East police station at 4pm on Sunday. “A search party was arranged and on Monday afternoon scholars at a primary school found her body in the bushes next to the school's rugby field. The […]
LOCAL Some parts of the Dassenhoek High School west of Durban have been torched. This follows last week’s police search at the school, where items including cellphones were confiscated. It is alleged that the school library and some offices were destroyed. Another school, Ndengetho High, was also torched two weeks ago after a similar police search. The Director of the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department Muzi Mahlambi says ring leaders have […]
LOCAL The City of Cape Town’s Emergency Centre says there has been a notable increase in trauma and assault cases over the past few weeks. Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says the overall spiked from just over 1700 to 1900. Smith says there have also been increases in the number of domestic violence calls. “We tend to see an increase in these categories as we near […]
LOCAL Tributes continue to pour in for a 39-year-old Cape Town woman who was killed in a shark attack at Plettenberg Bay in the Southern Cape. Kimon Bisogno went out for an early morning swim on Central Beach on Sunday when she was attacked. She was an active member of the community in Observatory and worked with organisations dealing with homeless people. Her friends and family have expressed shock over the incident […]
LOCAL Trade unions representing public servants say they might accept the government’s current pay rise offer of 3%, provided they meet their members’ conditions. The government was forced to go back to the drawing table after talks with the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council failed. Unions have threatened strike action if their demands are not met. Unions say members will now accept the 3% offer provided the R1000 bonus incentive […]
INTERNATIONAL German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday at the start of a two-day Gulf tour, in the hope of sealing new energy deals, despite criticism of the kingdom's human rights record. Scholz, accompanied by a sizeable industry delegation, was received at Jeddah airport on the Red Sea coast by the Mecca region's governor, Prince Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud. After meeting with Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown […]
INTERNATIONAL When protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011, Samer al-Kurdi, a footballer for Al-Karamah in the central city of Homs, did not know he would lose everything. Kurdi left Al-Karamah, which translates to "dignity", to join the demonstrations and demand dignity. Abd al-Basset al-Sarout, the club’s goalkeeper, joined him in trading crowds of fans in the stands for crowds of protesters in the streets of Homs. 'The Syrian Football […]
INTERNATIONAL What would have been the Egyptian capital's first bike-sharing project is hitting the wall, raising multiple questions over possible reasons for its suspension. The failure of Cairo Bike comes more than eight years after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi got on his bike in the city with hundreds of other cyclists to promote cycling as a means of reducing energy consumption and getting fit. Cairo Bike is a joint endeavour […]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian motorist in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the latest casualty in a recent spate of violence. The Israeli military said the man had tried to ram soldiers, but his family said they believed he had lost control of his car in a crash. The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned the killing, which it said was a deliberate "execution". Palestine's Abbas tells UN Israel is destroying two-state […]
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.
