Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

Society must help fight GBV, President Ramaphosa urges

LOCAL Individuals, organisations and employers are urged to join the government in a national effort to address the social faultlines that lead to gender-based violence. Whether volunteering at a shelter, supporting community policing forums or joining awareness campaigns in schools, everyone can do their bit, says President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly newsletter. “Gender-based violence and femicide is a deep-rooted societal problem. “It is not enough for perpetrators to be […]

2 August 2022

Local

South African is joint winner of world’s ‘longest and toughest horse race’

South African Willemien Jooste rode in as joint winner with American Deirdre Griffith in the 12th Mongol Derby endurance race, which ended on Saturday. The 1,000km race‚ which started in 2009‚ recreates the horse-messenger system developed by Genghis Khan‚ the founder of the Mongol Empire‚ in 1224. Using a network of horse stations‚ his messengers could gallop from his capital‚ Kharkhorin‚ to the Caspian Sea in a few days. The […]

1 August 2022

Local

Psycho-social support to be provided for Krugersdorp rape victims: Minister

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says her department is working closely with the police to gather details of the eight Krugersdorp rape victims and psycho-social support for the victims as well as their families will be arranged. The young women were part of a production crew shooting a music video. They were working on site when the attack took place on Thursday near the mine dump west of Johannesburg. The gun wielding […]

1 August 2022

Local

Higher Education encourages youth to take up artisan careers

As the country continues to face economic challenges and a high unemployment rate, young people are encouraged to contemplate becoming artisans. This follows a heritage career expo held at the University of Mpumalanga which was organised by the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation together with SETAs such as the Culture, Art, Tourism, Hospitality, and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority. Artisan careers Unemployment remains a big challenge in […]

1 August 2022

Local

Commission for Gender Equality calls for holistic view into social factors behind rape

The Commission for Gender Equality says there should be a holistic view into social factors that could have contributed to eight young women being gang raped near a mine dump in Krugersdorp on Gauteng’s West Rand. The women were part of a production crew shooting a music video. They were working on site when the attack took place last Thursday. More than 80 suspects were arrested over the weekend after the brutal […]

1 August 2022

Local

When to collect your social grant this month

Millions of South Africans will receive their old age, disability, social relief of distress (SRD) and other grants this week. The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) confirmed the dates on which recipients will receive their grants in August, reminding people “there is no need to rush to withdraw cash on the first day”. “Once the money is in the account, it will remain there until it is needed,” it said. […]

1 August 2022

International

Debris from China’s rocket booster falls to Earth

INTERNATIONAL Debris from a rocket that boosted part of China’s new space station into orbit has fallen into the sea in the Philippines, according to the Chinese government. Most of the final stage of the Long March-5B rocket burned up after entering the atmosphere, the China Manned Space Agency reported on Saturday. The agency said earlier the booster would be allowed to fall unguided. The announcement gave no details of whether the […]

31 July 2022

International

Disabled Palestinian man shot by Israeli army dies of wounds

INTERNATIONAL A Palestinian man, described as a suspect by the Israeli army and as mentally disabled by his family, died on Saturday, four days after being shot by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint. Hussein Qawariq, 59, from the village of Awarta, was shot on Tuesday by Israeli forces manning a checkpoint in Huwara, near the West Bank city of Nablus, the Palestinian health ministry said. The Israeli army told AFP that soldiers "spotted a suspect approaching them at a military post" and initially […]

31 July 2022

Local

Calls for ANC to declare unemployment a national crisis, says Mmamoloko Kubayi

LOCAL NC economic transformation subcommittee chair Mmamoloko Kubayi says there are calls to declare the unemployment in the country a national crisis. Kubayi was briefing the media on day two of the sixth ANC national policy conference taking place in Nasrec, Johannesburg. “We cannot continue like this, we’ve got to be able to respond and establish mechanisms to be able to respond to issues of youth unemployment,” she said. Explaining how it […]

31 July 2022

Tauhierah Salie

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