In an apparent bid to mimic his predecessor Julius Malema’s militancy, ANC Youth League president Collen Maine on Saturday called on military veterans to take up arms for President Jacob Zuma. The call by Maine, who is known as Oros in political circles, was made at a pro-Zuma march organised by the ANC’s eThekwini region on Saturday. About 5 000 ANC supporters, led by eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, marched through […]
OPINION by Nasim Ahmed A draft decision by UNESCO, which criticizes Israel’s activities at holy places in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, has been denounced by Israeli officials. “It ignores thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem and aids Islamist terror,” claimed Education Minister Naftali Bennett very dramatically. Never one to miss an opportunity to conflate Judaism and Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Facebook post […]
An influential Saudi Arabian investigative bodysaid on Saturday that the Saudi-led coalition attacked a funeral in Yemen after receiving incorrect information that armed Houthi leaders were in the area. The Saudi-led campaign in Yemen has come under severe criticism since last Saturday’s airstrike hit a funeral gathering for a Houthi minister in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, killing 140 people according to one UN estimate and 82 according to the Houthis. […]
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Iraq could not deal alone with driving Islamic State from the city of Mosul and that the presence of Turkish forces in a nearby military camp was an insurance against attacks on Turkey. Turkey has been locked in a row with Iraq's central government about the presence of Turkish troops at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq, and over who should take […]
US officials say a new round of missiles targeting an American warship in the Red Sea has been fired from a region of Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters. The USS Mason, a destroyer, launched countermeasures and was not hit in Saturday's strike. Three US warships in the Red Sea detected the missiles, the US military said, amid rising tensions with the Iran-allied group. "The Mason once again appears to have […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was "heartbreaking". During the trip on Saturday, he renewed a pledge to help the nation cope with a deadly scourge of cholera that was introduced by UN peacekeepers after an earthquake in 2010. Ban's brief visit came as victims of the storm continued to express frustration - sometimes violently - at delays in […]
NOTE: This article was corrected Principals in Mitchell's Plain have raised concern around the safety of educators, after the principal of Tafelsig High School was threatened by a learner at the school on Friday. According to sources, the pupil threatened Rushda O'Shea following a misunderstanding between the two. Five teachers were required to restrain the learner, who subsequently proceeded to smash the lights of the principal’s car. The learner was consequently […]
In a historical moment, this week the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) confirmed that the ‘Wailing Wall’ has no historical relevance in the Jewish faith. The United Nations’ cultural arm on Thursday passed a resolution that denied the existence of any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in a move derided in Israel as “anti-Semitic.” Describing the monument as the Buraq Wall, the […]
While the late Imam Abdullah Haron is generally remembered as a revered hero in the struggle against Apartheid, the great impact that the imam had within in his own community is not widely known. Members of the public are, therefore, invited to 11th Annual Imam Haron Memorial Lecture in which his work within society is discussed. The lecture, which will be rendered by Judge Zakeria Yacoob, is pertinent to 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.
