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BELA Bill will create conducive learning environments: Activitst

Education activist Hendrick Makaneta says the newly passed Basic Education Laws Bill will contribute to a conducive learning environment in schools. He was reacting to the National Assembly passing of the bill as well as the National Council of Provinces with some changes directed back to the Basic Education Committee. The bill sparked outrage with some political parties as well as civil society activists opposing elements of it, including issues around language […]

today19 May 2024

Local

Judgement expected in Dr Hoosen Haffejee re-opened inquest

NATIONAL Judgment is set to be handed down at the Pietermaritzburg High Court in the reopened inquest into the death of Dr Hoosen Haffejee next week Wednesday. Haffejee was found hanging in his cell at Brighton Beach Police Station on 3 August 1977. The apartheid police alleged he had hanged himself in detention from a grille door at the police station with his trousers. This year marks 46 years since […]

today9 September 2023

Local

Haron family closer to justice as closing arguments in inquest wrap in High Court

By Aneeqa du Plessis After more than 53 years, the Haron family are now one-step closer to hearing the truth in their father’s death. This comes as closing arguments in Imam Abdullah Haron’s reopened inquest were wrapped up in the Cape High Court yesterday. The anti-apartheid activist was detained for 123 days, interrogated daily and kept in solitary confinement without trail until his demise in 1969. The initial 1970 inquest […]

today26 April 2023

International

Bahrain: Leading activist fined over protesting prison conditions

INTERNATIONAL A Bahrain court has upheld two charges against one of the kingdom's most prominent human rights defenders who is already serving a life sentence and has been protesting conditions in prison, his family and rights groups have reported. Abdul-Hadi al-Khawaja, a Danish-Bahraini national who was imprisoned in 2011 after leading peaceful protests, was convicted on Monday of insulting a prison guard and breaking a plastic chair, and fined the equivalent of […]

today30 November 2022

International

Alaa Abd el-Fattah: UN demands release of Egyptian democracy activist

INTERNATIONAL The UN has demanded the Egyptian government release imprisoned activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is currently refusing both food and water while incarcerated. Abd el-Fattah was an icon of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and has spent eight of the past 10 years in jail on various charges. He was rearrested in September 2019, and again in December 2021, when he was sentenced to five years in prison by an emergency state […]

today9 November 2022

Local

Activist laments slow response in addressing the scourge of Gender-Based Violence

Activist, Sibongile Ndashe says little has been done to address the scourge of gender based violence in South Africa. Ndashe was speaking ahead of a two-day Gender Based Violence and Femicide Summit taking place in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. President Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting the summit, aimed at finding ways of tackling violence against women. Women’s groups and civil society organisations have long-called for government’s urgent intervention on the matter. Ndashe says […]

today1 November 2022

Local

Don Mattera laid to rest at Heroes Acre in Westpark Cemetery

LOCAL Renowned poet and anti-apartheid activist, Don Mattera, has been laid to rest at the Heroes Acre in Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg. The journalist, writer, and activist died on Monday at the age of 87. Mattera was buried in accordance with Islamic rites. Don Mattera used art to speak to the hearts and minds of the oppressed while standing up to the oppressors. His sister Gaylina Mattera, says that Don […]

today19 July 2022

Local

‘Running has been a great form of therapy for me’: mental health activist after battling depression and accident

Six months after being hit by a car during a morning run, sustaining head and knee injuries, Mmatshepo Seoka this week completed her first marathon. “It was amazing and it was difficult, I won’t lie,” the 25-year-old said of the 42km Wally Hayward Marathon. After Seoka set off on November 8 for her usual morning run in West Park, Pretoria West, she woke up in hospital with no memory of […]

today5 May 2022

International

Egypt releases 41 detainees, including political activists

Egypt's Public Prosecution yesterday  released 41 political activists from pretrial detention, two days after President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said the country needs to engage in "political dialogue", local human rights and political sources said. The Reform and Development Party said in a statement yesterday, that its chairperson, Mohamed Anwar Esmat El-Sadat, celebrated with the families and relatives of the released "who had been in pretrial detention on political, freedom of […]

today25 April 2022

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