By Tauhierah Salie In what has been nearly two weeks of intense searching, two bodies understood to be that of 8 year old Abieda Paulse and Yusuf Kiroboto have been found in Cape Town within hours of each other, but kilometres apart. The pair were swept away in the Vygieskraal canal on the 9th of July. At the time, a cold front had hit the Western Cape and resulted in […]
The body of the 8-year-old girl that fell into the canal at the Vygieskraal informal settlement in Athlone has not yet been retrieved, despite an extensive search over the past few days. It has been just under a week since little Abieda Steenkamp was washed away in the canal under severe rainy conditions, while she was playing at the banks of the canal with a group of her friends. The […]
The frantic search for a missing eight-year-old girl and a man continues at the canal in Belgravia Estate in Athlone on Friday. There’s a sense of anxiety as community members help in the search for the two. The girl had been playing with friends on the bank of the 'vlei' when she fell into the water. The man had reportedly tried to rescue her when he also disappeared into 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.
