A 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Marche region in central Italy, just hours after a 5.4-magnitude tremor damaged buildings and cut power lines across the area. Buildings in the region have been damaged, but there have been no reports of fatalities. A series of powerful aftershocks between magnitude 4 and 4.9 struck the area about five hours after the first tremor. The strongest earthquake occurred 9.18 p.m. on Wednesday, 71 […]
China’s navy is gearing up for drills near the disputed islands in the South China Sea, less than a week after a US guided-missile destroyer sailed through the waters where Beijing asserted sovereignty in what US called a ‘freedom of navigation’ patrol. The announcement of an exercise to be held in parts of the South China Sea was posted on China’s Maritime Safety Administration website. Without disclosing the details of […]
After decades of struggle by the Timol family and human rights activists, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has announced that it would reopen the inquest into the death of Ahmed Timol. The original inquest found in 1972 that nobody was to blame for Timol’s death. The Magistrate concluded that Timol had not been maltreated during his detention and had committed suicide. Following a private investigation launched on behalf of the […]
While finance minister, Pravin Gordhan today took to Parliament where he presented the budget speech, outside the heavily guarded gates, hundreds of university students continued their call for free and decolonized education. The protest, led by Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) Student Representative Council (SRC), included students from all major Western Cape tertiary institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape, and Stellenbosch University. […]
Masjidul-Quds was a vision of marshmallow pink as hundreds of women donned their pink headscarves in honour of annual Pink Hijab Day. Marked every year in the last week of October, Pink Hijab Day forms part of Breast Cancer Awareness month and is a solidarity event for those impacted by the disease. The event was hosted as part of Global Pink Hijab Day, an initiative that began as an experiment […]
A blaze broke at a house in Netreg street in Bonteheuwel in the early hours of Wednesday morning, claiming the lives of six people and leaving six others homeless. Authorities were called to Netreg Street at around 2am after a fire broke out at three houses. “Just after 2am this morning, Western Cape Government Emergency Health services (METRO EMS), were informed of three houses that burnt down, as well as […]
Chief Economist of Nedbank Group Limited Dennis Dykes says the Finance Minister's Mid-term Budget will be closely watched to see how most universities will cover the 0% fees increases for families earning below R600 000. Speaking on Morning Live he says, "On a broad level he would need to cover how potentially this would be covered whether its through increased tax or cutting expenditure somewhere else." Students across the country […]
Johannesburg - The heat is on as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan prepares to deliver his mid-term budget later on Wednesday at a time when the economy is stagnating, the nation stands on the brink of a junk credit rating and universities have been rocked by student protesters demanding free education. While Gordhan forecast in February that the economy would grow 0.9% this year, soft commodity prices, a lackluster global economy […]
The "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais woke up to a third day of a government operation to empty and clear it on Wednesday following a night of ritual tent and shelter-burning and some gas-bottle explosions. A Calais prefecture official told France Info radio on Wednesday morning that one person had been slightly injured in his inner ear by one of the explosions and had been taken to hospital. "The operation […]
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.
