The DA says it will ask the Independent Electoral Commission to look at allegations that the ANC set up a covert election campaign to disempower opposition parties ahead of last year's municipal vote. PR expert Sihle Bolani has claimed in a court affidavit that an ANC campaign team known as the War Room was to set up a seemingly independent website, use so-called 'influencers' on social media and print fake […]
'African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has warned that a Donald Trump's administration threatened global progress on climate change and women's rights. Africa should counter this by establishing the planned continental free trade area this year, she said. In her last speech at the opening of the AU executive council of ministers' meeting on Wednesday, Dlamini-Zuma said: "We seem to be moving towards a multi-polar world as the US under […]
Gambia's President Adama Barrow, who was inaugurated in neighboring Senegal as mediators engineered an exit deal for longstanding ruler Yahya Jammeh, is to return to Gambia on Thursday, a senior aide said. Barrow has asked a regional force of several thousand soldiers to stay and help him restore democratic governance after they entered Gambia last week to enforce election results that brought an end to Jammeh's 22 years in power. […]
The Dutch Minister of Security and Justice announced that the Netherlands might conduct further investigation at the site of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine after a Dutch journalist recovered some victims’ remains from the site. In January, Dutch journalist Michael Spekkers returned from a two-week stay in eastern Ukraine where he and his colleague, Stefan Beck, had been gathering first-hand accounts of the locals’ attitudes toward […]
Mexico's leader Enrique Pena Nieto has condemned US President Donald Trump's move to build a border wall, and insisted that his country has no intention of paying for it. "I regret and condemn the decision of the United States to continue construction of a wall that, for years, has divided us instead of uniting us," President Pena Nieto said in a brief televised message on Wednesday. "Mexico does not believe […]
The Hanover Park Civic Association is calling on community members to participate in a public meeting calling for the eviction of gangster’s residing in council rental units. This follows the shooting and consequent wounding of five old Ashlin Telmarks in Hanover Park’s Algoa Court on Tuesday evening. Telmarks was caught in reported gang related crossfire while playing only meters from her grandmother’s front door. According to the family, medical reports […]
Concerns over Policing in Khayelitsha were voiced by members of the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) at a picket that was staged outside the Western Cape police administration’s office. This comes after the SJC had taken the Police management to the Equality Court in an attempt to force the South African Police Service (SAPS) to implement the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into Policing in Khayelitsha. Speaking to VOC’s Breakfast […]
Former SA Revenue Service spokesperson Adrian Lackay is set to give his third day of testimony on Wednesday, at a CCMA arbitration hearing. Lackay revealed on Tuesday that senior SARS employees and the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) planned to "spike" a story the Mail & Guardian was due to publish on the alleged relationship between SARS commissioner Tom Moyane and President Jacob Zuma. He felt he was sidelined […]
Two Mpumalanga men, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins, accused of beating up farm worker Victor Rethabile Mlotshwa and forcing him into a coffin will be back in the Middleburg Magistrate's Court. The two men spent Christmas and New Year behind bars. The incident happened last year in August and a video of the attack went viral on social media. The accused initially stated that they would not apply for bail […]
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.
