LOCAL The Hawks says it is currently handling about 22 000 cases of more than half a million charges with a monetary value of more than R1.5 trillion. The national head of the Hawks, Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya, says these cases involve approximately 23 000 suspects of which 12 360 have already been secured at court while 11 159 are still pending. He says of the cases under investigation, close to […]
LOCAL Police say 10 alleged instigators of last year’s looting and violence who were arrested in Gauteng on Tuesday will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Another person was arrested on Wednesday in the Western Cape. That person will appear in court with the others on Friday. The looting and violence caused tens of billions of rands in damage in July last year. More than 300 people lost […]
LOCAL Alphabet Inc has launched Google Wallet in SA, as the tech giant tries to gain a foothold in the country's rapidly growing digital payments space. The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital transactions and people increasingly prefer making contactless payments via their smart devices. High smartphone penetration has also helped adoption rates. The Google Wallet app stores a consumer's credit or debit card information and allows shoppers […]
LOCAL Tributes poured in following news that former member of Parliament and ActionSA member, Vytjie Mentor, passed away at the age of 58 on Tuesday morning. She stepped down as ActionSA’s Western Cape chairperson earlier this year due to ill health. Mentor was the first person to sound the alarm on state capture when she publicly claimed that the controversial Gupta family had offered her a post as Public Enterprises […]
By Tauhierah Salie Economists are warning that a national shutdown planned by trade unions on Wednesday, will likely damage the economy further. Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African Federation of Trade Unions’ (Saftu) are among several unions partaking in rallies across the country to voice frustration over the rising cost of living, power cuts, high fuel prices and unemployment. Cosatu said it is demanding a sustainable […]
The relieved family of six-year-old Muhammad Shanawaaz Asgar has expressed deep appreciation to the public for their support and prayers, after being reunited with the boy last night. According to police, the Grade R student was kidnapped by six suspects in two vehicles outside his Kensington home along 4th Avenue on Wednesday morning. His father was found to have been gun pointed while attempting to prevent the child from being […]
INTERNATIONAL As funerals and private gatherings continued to be held to mourn the 41 victims who were killed in a blaze that engulfed a Coptic church in Egypt's Giza on Sunday, witnesses and family members are tormented between grieving and holding officials accountable. Health officials said that all the deaths were caused by suffocation from the smoke that enveloped the building after a malfunction struck an old air conditioning device. Fourteen of […]
INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces closed the offices of seven Palestinian civil society rights groups in the occupied West Bank in an overnight raid on Thursday. Al-Haq said Israeli soldiers stormed its offices in Ramallah, confiscating items, shutting down the main entrance with an iron plate, and leaving behind a military order declaring the organisation unlawful. Other groups raided included Addameer, the Bisan Center for Research & Development, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), the Union of Palestinian […]
INTERNATIONALLY Dutch-Palestinian supermodel Bella Hadid has said she is unafraid to lose modelling jobs in order to continue her support for Palestine, days after she revealed that her advocacy had caused some companies to stop working with her. In a joint interview with Egyptian-American actor Ramy Youssef for GQ magazine, the 25-year-old model opened up about her Muslim and Arab heritage and her continued support for the Palestinian cause. 'I had so many […]
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.
