Steven Otter, the City spokesperson who was murdered in his home on Friday morning during a robbery, fought to the death against the intruders, Netwerk24 reported. Otter, 43, who was a former political spokesperson and who was presently part of the team at the City of Cape Town working on the MyCiti-project, his girlfriend, Natalie and her seven-year-old daughter were at home when the incident occurred. Otter's ex-wife, Janine Lange, […]
The full text of a document detailing why more than 100 ANC stalwarts believe the organisation has failed citizens and on which their recent discussions with ANC leadership were based has been released. In the full text of the document, titled "For the Sake of Our Future", which was published on GroundUp on Friday morning, they listed their criticism and observations on the 104-year-old liberation movement. Last month, the stalwarts […]
A group of South Africans have formed #OperationSA and its first task is to urgently raise money for humanitarian efforts in Syria. Among those behind the initiative, amongst others, are social activists' Yusuf Abramjee, Yaseen Theba and Catherine Constantinides. Abramjee said "an urgent decision was taken at the weekend to make Aleppo and other parts of Syria the first project”. He said South Africans cannot sit back and see the […]
The Hadji Abdullah Solomon Family Trust says they feel vindicated by a court tribunal’s decision, which gives the green light for a commercial development in Constantia. Their land on Ladies Mile Road which had been forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act during the apartheid era, was returned to the Solomon family through the government’s restitution process. The plan proposed by the Trust is to build a shopping complex, which Constantia […]
UPDATED: An urgent application by the Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association to compel the City of Cape Town to approve a street parade this weekend has been set aside by the Cape High Court. For the first time in 19 years, the Voorsmaakie parade will not take place. The event is seen as buildup to the Tweede Nuwe Jaar festival on 2 January. The Minstrel’s Association took the City to court to […]
Thousands of civilians and rebels are still waiting to leave the last remaining rebel-held pockets of eastern Aleppo under an evacuation deal that will allow Syria's government to take full control of the city after years of fighting. The operation launched on Thursday and is expected to take several days. Zouhir Al Shimale, a journalist in eastern Aleppo, said the evacuation was moving at a snail's pace. "It's supposed to […]
US president-elect Donald Trump's choice of ambassador to Israel has said he is looking forward to strenghtening US-Israeli relations "from the US embassy in Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem. David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer, made the comment hours after he was confirmed as ambassador to Israel on Thursday. He said he hoped to "strengthen the unbreakable bond between our two countries and advance the cause of peace within the region, and […]
Gulf Arab countries condemned the Syrian government's handling of a ceasefire and evacuation in Aleppo and called on Thursday for civilians trying to flee the war-torn city to be protected. An emergency meeting of Arab League representatives convened at Qatar's request discussed the situation in Aleppo, where an evacuation of the rebel-held eastern part of the city was fired upon by forces loyal to the Syrian government. "The Syrian regime […]
A lawyer from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said in a statement Thursday that an appeal has been filed with the Israeli Supreme Court after the court confirmed the administrative detention -- internment without charge or trial -- of Palestinian hunger striker Ammar Ibrahim Hamour, who has gone without food for 24 days in protest of his detention. PPS lawyer Ahmad Safiya said that the organization was still awaiting the […]
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.
