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Youngsters join Bishop Lavis CPF to aid crime prevention.

By Daanyaal Matthews The Bishop Lavis CPF has welcomed youngsters from the community in assisting in the fight against crime. This comes after a recent community Imbizo wherein the CPF recognized the need to include the need of the youth to better tackle crime. Talking on VOC Breakfast, Graham Lindhorst,

Israel occupation seizes 70 Palestine homes in Hebron’s Old City

Israeli occupation authorities have started plans to confiscate 70 Palestinian homes in the Old City of the southern occupied West Bank governorate of Hebron. Director of the Hebron Construction Committee Imad Hamdan said the Israeli occupation plans to hand over the Palestinian homes to Israeli settlers. Hamdan added: “The Israeli

Jordan says MP held by Israel over alleged arms, gold smuggling

Israel has detained a Jordanian member of parliament in a case related to the alleged smuggling of arms and gold into the occupied West Bank, Jordan’s foreign ministry said. Imad al-Adwan, a member of Jordan’s parliament who had crossed a main border crossing along the Jordan River earlier on Sunday by car,

‘Fragmentation of trade unions weakened the voice of workers’

Veteran trade unionist and Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu)’s first general- secretary, Jay Naidoo, says the fragmentation of trade unions has weakened the voice and power of workers. The labour federation is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1973 mass workers’ strike in Durban. The strike saw thousands

Load-shedding improves: Now at stage 4, two levels down from last week

Stage 4 load-shedding is being implemented from Sunday morning until further notice. This is an improvement from last week’s rolling blackouts at stage 6, which Eskom attributed to coal supply shortages as well as the now-frequent breakdowns at power stations. Eskom had hoped to move the country to stage 4 by

Urgent application filed over Ramaphosa’s failure to appoint SABC Board

Non-profit organisation, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), has filed urgent papers in the Constitutional Court over President Cyril Ramaphosa’s failure to appoint the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) Board. The public broadcaster has been without a Board since mid-October last year. In lengthy papers filed before the apex court, the MMA

Kidnapped Cape Town lawyer rescued after police manhunt

A Cape Town lawyer kidnapped on Friday has been rescued by police, who arrested three people after successfully pursuing several leads. The traumatised victim was found a day later, in a town 280km away from his home in Bellville, police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi said. His wife had reported

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