The New Age newspaper, owned by the Gupta family, scored up to R17.1 million in an alleged money-laundering scheme involving Eric Wood, CEO of Gupta-linked financial services advisory group, Trillian. So say emails and documents before the Pretoria High Court by Regiments Capital, a competitor company of which Wood had been a director for nearly 12 years until February, when he became CEO of Trillian. Trillian is 60% owned by […]
All medical facilities in Syria's rebel-held Aleppo have been destroyed, health officials and opposition activists have told Al Jazeera, as another day of ferocious government bombardment on the besieged city left dozens of people dead. Air raids, barrel bombs and artillery fire killed at least 56 people on Saturday, volunteers with the White Helmets group told Al Jazeera. The rescuers, who operate in rebel-held parts of Syria, said they had […]
At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 injured when a train derailed in northern Uttar Pradesh, India's biggest state, police said. The train was travelling between the northeastern city of Patna and the central city of Indore on Sunday when the incident happened, throwing several carriages off the track, according to railway officials. "As we know a major accident has happened in which the entire train turned […]
At least 17 people were killed by heavy gunfire and about a dozen more were rounded up and executed after hundreds of civilians trying to leave eastern Aleppo protested against the rebel blockade of exit routes, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Some 500 civilians took part in several protests in the rebel-occupied eastern part of Aleppo on Thursday, and at least 200 of them were trying to reach the Syrian […]
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on Friday condemned a Lenasia schoolteacher who allegedly called a Muslim pupil a “terrorist”. “If the allegations against the teacher are found to be true, it raises serious concerns about ongoing incidents of racism in SA schools,” the foundation’s director, Neeshan Balton, said in a statement. “It is extremely worrying that Islamophobia may have found its way into a classroom.” A teacher at the Apex Primary […]
A proposed figure for a minimum wage will be published on Sunday following a Nedlac meeting, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says. "We are to receive a report from the panel of advisers I have appointed to advise the social partners on the issue of the minimum wage," he told journalists on Friday. Ramaphosa was speaking on the sidelines of the Federation of Unions of South Africa’s conference, where he delivered […]
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has denied that it is captured by the Guptas. The union was reacting to a story aired on eNCA on Thursday night wherein it's general-secretary David Sipunzi said the Guptas funded it's Central Executive Committee conference in June this year to the tune of R1.5 million, and that the Guptas secured the union's backing in acquiring the controversial Optimum Coal Mine in Mpumalanga. The […]
Thousands of yellow-shirt protesters rallied Saturday in downtown Kuala Lumpur seeking Prime Minister Najib Razak’s resignation over a financial scandal, undeterred by a police ban and the arrest of 15 activists. Police barricaded key roads in downtown Kuala Lumpur and put water-cannon trucks on standby, but it did not stop protesters. Some were chanting “Save Democracy” and “Bersih, Bersih”— the name of the electoral reform group that organized the rally. […]
In a unified khutbah by the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) on Friday, ulema across the Western Cape have been urged to conscientise Muslims on the country’s water crisis. Since November, Cape Town has been imposed with Level 3 water restrictions, due to the on-going drought. Residents are asked to ensure that their water consumption over the coming summer months remains consistent with their winter consumption, as this will ensure that […]
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.
