LOCAL Police minister Bheki Cele has decried the number of crimes committed against women. Releasing the latest crime stats for the period between July and September, Cele said the rate at which women are abused, violated and killed in South Africa remains worrying and unacceptable; many are killed by the people they know, people they love and trust. “Over 13,000 women were victims of assault with intent to cause grievous […]
LOCAL Entries have opened for the 2023 Comrades Marathon. Next year’s race, another down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban, will take place on June 11. Entries will be capped at 20 000 athletes. The Comrades Marathon Association launched the 96th ultra-marathon race in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday. Chairperson Mqondisi Ngcobo says, “We already have 48 up runs, it is going to be equal now. The 96th edition is going to be the 48th down […]
LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa received a standing ovation after delivering his address at a joint sitting of parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London on Tuesday afternoon. “It is reassuring that since becoming president in 2018, you have led the way in restoring the Mandela vision for your country. I wonder if you and the people of South Africa realise the importance to the people of the United Kingdom […]
LOCAL About 100 Western Cape matric students sat for Sepedi and Sesotho papers on Tuesday amid a taxi strike. The SA National Taxi Association (Santaco) in the province embarked on a two-day protest after the suspension of the City of Cape Town's Blue Dot Taxi initiative. Insufficient budgets ended the initiative, which rewards good behaviour and excellent service. Two buses were set on fire in the city on Monday, while a […]
LOCAL cting Public Service and Administration Minister, Thulas Ngxesi meets with public service union leaders to receive their memorandum, in Tshwane. Unions representing public service workers have handed over a memorandum of demands to the acting Public Service and Administration Minister Thulas Nxesi outside the office of the National Treasury in Pretoria. The demands include a 10% wage increase, the permanent filling of all vacant posts and the insourcing of […]
INTERNATIONAL Former Tunisian President, Monsef Marzouki, said that Qatar's success in organising the World Cup is a great incentive for Arabs, Muslims and all countries of the world and confirmation that they can perform miracles if there is political and popular will. He criticised the "hypocrisy" of Western countries and their adoption of a double discourse, especially during the Western media's coverage of this Qatar achievement. Marzouki told Qatar's Al Jazeera that […]
INTERNATIONAL Scores of people waved Palestinian flags as they gathered in the city of Santa Clara del Mar, in Argentina's Buenos Aires State. They had come together to celebrate the renaming of one of its main roads in the city to "Palestine Street" and to mark the 34th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. The local government of Santa Clara del Mar took the initiative in cooperation with the Embassy of […]
INTERNATIONAL Saudi Arabia has declared a national holiday following its stunning 2-1 victory over Lionel Messi’s Argentina in the Qatar World Cup. All employees in the public and private sectors will have the day off work, according to the official Saudi Press Agency. Students will also not have to attend lessons. Saudi Arabia shocked favourites Argentina with brilliant goals from Saleh al-Shehri and Salem al-Dawsari. The Green Falcons, ranked 51st in the global rankings, beat the […]
INTERNATIONAL Germany will withdraw its troops from the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Mali by May 2024, a government spokesman has said, becoming the latest country to announce its pullout from the rebellion-hit country. The government will propose to parliament that Germany’s commitment to the MINUSMA operation be extended “in May 2023 for the last time by a year, in order to bring this mission to a structured end after 10 […]
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.
