LOCAL A two-year-old boy has died in a bus crash near Wilderness Heights outside George in the Western Cape on Saturday night. The bus was carrying 35 people when it lost control and rolled down an embankment. Police say the bus was carrying members of a rugby team from Plettenberg Bay and their supporters. They were on their way home after a match in George. Twenty-nine people have been hospitalised […]
INTERNATIONAL When it was announced 12 years ago that Qatar would host the 2022 World Cup, residents wondered how a small Gulf emirate would be able to cope with an estimated 1.2 million visitors over the course of five weeks. In the ensuing years, the country embarked on a massive modernisation, construction, and greening project of the otherwise dusty capital, Doha. The total bill for those decade-long efforts has ballooned beyond $229bn, […]
INTERNATIONAL A 17-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli forces on Saturday during a raid on the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry announced. The ministry identified the boy as Amjad al-Fayed and said he was shot by Israeli troops in the neck and chest. It also said an 18-year-old was wounded with a live bullet to the abdomen and his condition is critical. Two […]
LOCAL An antismoking campaigner says any progress SA has made in reducing tobacco consumption will be reversed if legislation is not updated swiftly and the rise in vaping among young people continues. Sharon Nyatsanza, deputy director of the National Council Against Smoking, said non-smokers, mostly young people, are becoming addicted to nicotine by using vapes, which are not covered by tobacco laws. “Smoking rates are stagnant. This is partly attributable […]
LOCAL The DA has reported the speaker of the Western Cape legislature to the Hawks for alleged expenses fiddles. In a statement on Saturday, interim provincial leader Tertuis Simmers said whistle-blowers had raised the alarm over subsistence, travel and entertainment allowance claims by Masizole Mnqasela. Simmers said documents containing protected disclosures by whistle-blowers had been handed to the Hawks. They alleged fraud and/or corruption by Mnqasela. The statement said: “The […]
LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said he remained hopeful power utility Eskom would do everything it could to avoid stage 8 load-shedding. “I don’t really believe that we will go up to stage eight. I think the management is doing everything that they can to ensure that they keep up with maintenance and if there are breakdowns, they repair very quickly. So we are still very hopeful that we […]
LOCAL National head of the Hawks Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya said once the outstanding investigations into the fire in parliament in Cape Town earlier this year are received, the case will be transferred to the Cape Town high court for trial. Paliament's joint standing committee on financial management, the SA Police Service, the department of public works and infrastructure and the SA heritage resources agency were briefed on progress made in […]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Western Province, Cobras and SA batsman Zubayr Hamza due to an anti-doping rule violation. Hamza will have to cease all cricket-related activities for nine months, after an out-of-competition sample provided in January this year positively identified the prohibited substance Furosemide. All his individual performances between 17 January and 22 March 2022 have also been disqualified. “I wish to thank the ICC for the […]
by Tauhierah Salie The City of Cape Town says it has reprimanded the Staff member who recently sent a letter of complaint to Tennyson road masjid in Salt River, over the athaan. The City instructed the century old masjid to ‘mitigate’ the sounds emanating from it ‘with immediate effect’, which it has refused to do until further clarity is provided. The letter was sent despite recent assurances that the City’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.
