LOCAL The NSRI and the Bitou Municipality are appealing to the public to be cautious along the Plettenberg Bay and Southern Cape coastline. Beaches have been closed in Plettenberg Bay by Bitou Municipalty. This sadly follows a fatal shark incident at Central Beach on Sunday morning. NSRI Plettenberg Bay and the police services were activated at 07h53 following reports of a shark incident at Central Beach. The sea rescue craft […]
LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday described the challenges facing crisis-stricken Eskom as “complex” saying measures were being taken to address them. Speaking at his first public engagement since returning from attending Queen Elizabeth's funeral in the UK on Tuesday, Ramaphosa said: “The challenge is being addressed. It’s a complex one and we will be speaking soon about various measures that we are taking to make sure that we address […]
LOCAL The Premier of Free State, Sisi Ntombela, has announced that they will on Monday start construction of new houses for Jagersfontein residents who were affected by the mine dam burst. Ntombela was speaking during the funeral service of Ralehana Aaron Mosoeu (78), who’s the only person confirmed dead from the disaster. Ralehana Aaron Mosoeu’s neighbour, told mourners at his funeral, that he woke him up, moments before the sludge […]
LOCAL The Stellenbosch University Student Representative Council has called on students at the institution to allow the Office of Student Discipline to carry out its investigation into the conduct of one of their fellow students. This comes after Stellenbosch University, this week, suspended a student from its Helshoogte residence after he allegedly urinated on his roommate’s chair while intoxicated, and says it will consider further action, such as a full […]
INTERNATIONAL Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said protesters condemning the killing of Mahsa Amini should be "confronted decisively", after state media said 35 people had been killed during more than a week of protests, double the previous figure given. Amini died in police custody after Iran's morality police arrested the 22-year-old Kurdish woman in Tehran on 13 September for wearing her hijab in an "improper" way. Her death led to demonstrations in Iran and across […]
INTERNATIONAL Three UN experts have strongly criticised UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's repeated suggestion that she may relocate the British embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Truss told her Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that she is reviewing the embassy's current location. During the Conservative party leadership contest, Truss, then foreign secretary, told the Conservative Friends […]
INTERNATIONAL Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, where in his near hour-long speech he said Israel was "destroying" the two-state solution, and lambasted the UN for failing to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands. "[Israel] has and still is through its current policies, which are premeditated and deliberate, destroying the two-state solution," Abbas said to other world leaders in attendance. "Israel does not believe in […]
INTERNATIONAL It's late afternoon, and silence has replaced the hustle and bustle in the restaurants and clothes shops on Leicester's celebrated Golden Mile along Belgrave Road. Premises that would typically be full of customers riffling through saris and buying Indian desserts are now nearly empty, with old Diwali signs and portraits of the late Queen Elizabeth II fading on shop windows. Outside, roads normally congested with traffic are almost deserted. […]
LOCAL Stellenbosch University (SU) has been rocked by another urination scandal. In May, Theuns du Toit was filmed urinating in the room of another student, Babalo Ndwayana, at the Huis Marais residence. Du Toit has since been expelled. The fresh controversy was revealed on Saturday by Prof Deresh Ramjugernath, the institution's deputy vice-chancellor for learning and teaching. In a statement, Ramjugernath said a drunk student allegedly urinated on his roommate's […]
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.
