Tauhierah Salie, Author at Voice of the Cape

Jared Kushner’s new fund ‘to invest Saudi money in Israeli startups’

INTERNATIONAL Jared Kushner’s new private-equity fund is planning to invest millions of dollars of Saudi Arabia’s money in Israeli startups, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), who cited people familiar with the investment plan. Kushner's Affinity Partners has already selected the first two Israeli firms to invest in, the sources said, in what would be the first known case of money from the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund - the Saudi […]

9 May 2022

International

Record 9.3 million Syrian children in need of aid, says UN

INTERNATIONAL More Syrian children are in need than at any time since the country's devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is "dwindling", the United Nations (UN) warned on Sunday. "Syria's children have suffered for far too long and should not suffer any longer," the UN children's agency Unicef said in a statement, noting that 9.3 million were in need of aid both inside the […]

9 May 2022

International

Israel’s new settlement build is a ‘blatant challenge’ to US, says Palestinian Authority

INTERNATIONAL Israel's recently announced plan to build thousands of housing units for illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank is a "blatant challenge" to the United States and the international community, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has said. The PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, in a statement on Saturday, slammed Israel's plan to build 4,000 new settlement units in the West Bank, which will require the demolition of 12 villages in Masafer Yatta, south of […]

9 May 2022

International

Two Palestinians shot dead in separate incidents in occupied West Bank

INTERNATIONAL Two Palestinians were shot dead and another was wounded in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem on Sunday, officials said, the latest incidents in a spate of violence. The deaths, along with the stabbing of a policeman in Jerusalem, came hours after Israeli forces caught two Palestinians suspected of killing three people in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Elad on Israel's Independence Day last Thursday. Israel's army […]

9 May 2022

Local

WCED expresses concern over impact of loadshedding on upcoming Exams

LOCAL The Western Cape MEC for Education, Debbie Schäfer, has expressed concern about the possible impact of loadshedding on the May/June Grade-12 examinations. A total of 36 379 learners will write these exams in the province from today. Eskom suspended loadshedding on Saturday, but fears over the possibility of another round of the power failures always remain. Schäfer also expressed concern about the possibility of protests by different organisations and […]

9 May 2022

Local

EFF welcomes arrest of three suspects in connection with Hillary Gardee’s murder

LOCAL The EFF has welcomed the arrest of three suspects in the investigation of Hillary Gardee’s murder. The body of the 28-year-old daughter of the party’s former secretary-general Godrich Gardee was found near Mashishing Road near Mbombela, Mpumalanga, last Tuesday. She was laid to rest on Saturday. Police spokesperson Col Donald Mdhluli said the three people, including the suspect arrested on Friday, will appear in the Mbombela magistrate’s court on […]

9 May 2022

Local

‘Basic income grants will not fix SA’s economy’, says Tito Mboweni

LOCAL Former finance minister and former governor of the SA Reserve Bank Tito Mboweni says fixing the country’s economy requires rebuilding infrastructure, not basic income grants. Mboweni, who was speaking at the PSG Konsult annual conference, shared insight into what he thinks SA needs to do to fix the social-economic crisis. He said economic growth will remain stagnant if government does not focus more on investment instead of social grants. […]

9 May 2022

Local

Standard Bank restores all system problems

LOCAL Standard Bank says it has restored all system problems that affected its retail customers using its banking app, ATM, point of sale and online banking. The bank reported that the technical issue resulted in customers not being able to do their transactions on Sunday morning. Head of Digital and E-Commerce at Standard Bank, Andrew van der Hoven says, “We can confirm that our systems are now working as per […]

9 May 2022

Local

Khayelitsha Development Forum believes latest mass killing might be gang-related

LOCAL Local police are investigating another mass shooting in Site C Khayelitsha. Five yet-to-be-identified men were shot and killed and a sixth person died in hospital on Sunday evening. Police spokesperson, Novela Potelwa, says police were called out to the corner of Maphongwana and Idada Street in Site C just after 20h00, where they found the bodies of the five victims who had been shot. She says a sixth person […]

9 May 2022

Tauhierah Salie

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