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Heritage Month: Language Diversity in South Africa with an emphasis on language and culture

By Rachel Mohamed As we continue to celebrate Heritage Month under the theme “Celebrating the lives of our heroes and heroines who laid down their lives for our freedom."  VOC Journalist Rachel Mohamed provided some insight on how South Africa prides itself on 12 official languages, with a multilingual population fluent in at least two Indigenous languages, IsiZulu and IsiXhosa, regarded as the largest and most spoken language in the […]

today25 September 2024

International News

Chidimma Adetshina’s mother can travel out of South Africa

By Rachel Mohamed Last month, the Chidimma Adetshina, 26, saga went viral on social media after Minister of Arts, Culture, and Sport Gayton Mckenzie questioned her nationality and asked how a foreign national could be participating in the Miss South Africa 2024 pageant. After allegedly discovering that Chidima's mother registered her under someone else's identity, the Home Affairs Department said it was investigating a prima facie case of identity fraud […]

today9 September 2024

International

Israeli forces uproot 2,000 olive trees in the West Bank

INTERNATIONAL Israeli forces on Monday uprooted and destroyed some 2,000 olive trees in the Palestinian village of Qarawat Bani Hassan in the northern occupied West Bank, according to local media. Ibrahim Assi, the mayor of Qarawat Bani Hassan, said soldiers stormed al-Awarid, an area north of the village, declared it a closed military zone, then proceeded to bulldoze the area, of around 300 dunams (o.3 square km), in an operation that lasted for […]

today15 November 2022

News

VOC launches Young Cape Muslim Cultural Showcase

COMMUNITY On Monday, 02 August, the Voice of the Cape, in conjunction with the City of Cape Town, launched the Young Cape Muslim Cultural Showcase. The showcase is aimed at providing the Capetonian youth with a platform to flaunt their talent and display the rich culture and heritage the Cape Malay community has to offer. The slinking of other cultures into Cape communities has brought about fears of losing its […]

today3 August 2021

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