Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

Gaza: Israel admits killing five children at cemetery after initially blaming Islamic Jihad

INTERNATIONAL Israeli military officials have confirmed that Israel was responsible for the deaths of five Palestinian children killed on the last day of the country's recent bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip. Several defence officials told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that an army inquiry into the attack on the Falluja cemetery on 7 August had found that Israel was to blame. At the time of the attack, the Israeli army blamed the deaths on […]

16 August 2022

Local

High chances of stage 2 load-shedding, says Eskom

LOCAL Eskom has warned it may be lights out on Monday evening. The power utility said there was a chance that stage 2 load-shedding may be implemented between 6pm and midnight. This was because of a shortage of generation capacity. “The breakdowns of a generation unit each at Kriel, Majuba and Matla and three units at Arnot power station during the past 24 hours, as well as delays in returning […]

16 August 2022

Local

Sassa to help R350 grant recipients find jobs

LOCAL Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) is working on a plan to help those receiving the R350 social relief distress grant (SRD) find work. Zulu revealed this while responding to a written parliamentary question from the EFF. The red berets asked “what measures of intervention will her department take to accommodate the more than 500,000 people that will be excluded from the SRD due to […]

16 August 2022

Local

More than 20k expected to attend the 10th Marikana commemoration

LOCAL The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) says over 20 000 people are expected to attend the 10th Marikana commemoration at the infamous Marikana koppie in the North West. That is where police shot and killed 34 mineworkers on August 16 2012. This year’s Marikana commemoration will be held under the them ’10 years of betrayal.’ Amcu says there is still no justice for the people who got wounded, arrested […]

16 August 2022

Local

IPID investigates alleged assault by Fish Hoek police officers

LOCAL The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) is investigating an incident between Fish Hoek police officers and a civilian. Police confirmed that both parties opened assault cases against each other. Videos of this weekends' altercation have gone viral on social media. According to Western Cape SAPS spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa, the officers responded to a complaint about a missing individual in the area. Potelwa says a senior police official will […]

16 August 2022

International

The Nazi death camps in occupied Poland and Israel’s battle for narrative control

INTERNATIONAL It is an emotional rite of passage for most Israeli Jewish teens. Every year, some 40,000 high school students, most in 11th or 12th grade, travel to the Nazi death camps in Poland. Arranged by schools, youth movements, and private institutions, these delegations are intended to teach the participants about the Holocaust and memorialise the victims. Set before the students' upcoming compulsory military service after high school graduation, the trips are […]

15 August 2022

Local

Armenia: Five dead, dozens hurt in explosion at Sumarlu market

INTERNATIONAL Explosions have ripped through a fireworks warehouse in the Armenian capital of Yerevan, killing at least five people and injuring dozens more. Video footage from the Surmalu market on Sunday showed grey smoke billowing over a building and people scurrying away from the area. Rescue workers sifted through twisted metal and rubble in a search for survivors, as clouds of dust and smoke hung in the air. Bystanders helped […]

15 August 2022

International

Israeli strikes on Syria kill three soldiers, says state media

INTERNATIONAL Israeli air strikes on Syria killed three soldiers and wounded three others on Friday, state media said, after the latest such incident in the war-torn country. "The aggression led to the death of three soldiers, the wounding of three others," Syria's official news agency SANA said, quoting a military source. US secretly reviews Israeli air strikes against Iranian targets in Syria, says report Read More » Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, Israel […]

15 August 2022

Local

Brackenfell community reels after head of child is discovered

LOCAL The Brackenfell community in Cape Town is reeling after the head of child was found on Saturday night. Reports indicate that the gruesome discovery was made by community members along the railway tracks close to the Everite bridge, who then alerted police. No further information is currently available and it remains unclear who the child is. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg has urged anyone with information to come forward: “Brackenfell […]

15 August 2022

Tauhierah Salie

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