By Ragheema Mclean A tragic accident in Paarl-East claimed the lives of two matric learners on Monday. SAPS spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Pojie confirmed that the incident occurred around 13:20 in Van Der Stel Street when a passenger bus veered off the road, fatally striking two learners and injuring two others. "It is alleged that the driver of a passenger bus lost control on a downhill and hit the two […]
The former Dean of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town, Reverend Michael Weeder says the late renowned struggle poet and writer James Matthews lifted the torch of freedom in the darkest of times. Matthews passed away in Cape Town at the age of 95. The poet and writer wrote for a variety of publications and was a fearless writer and poet during the apartheid era. Weeder says Matthews never walked away from his true […]
Gun violence continues to plague the Cape Flats, claiming more young lives day by day. The latest figures from the Western Cape Health Department report that between January and June this year, over 300 children with firearm-related injuries were treated at public health facilities in the province. Speaking on VOC’s Sunday Live show earlier today, Crime activist and Child & Human Rights Defender, Zona Morton said a more decisive plan […]
By Aneeqa du Plessis “No person in their right mind would ever want to be the cause of an eight-month-old baby dying.” These are the words of Bonteheuwel Ward Councilor Angus Mackenzie who spoke on VOC’s Breakfast show on Tuesday morning after the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of little Mohammed Qiran Canterbury. Bishop Lavis police are investigating the death of the infant after he allegedly died at his creche […]
By Aneeqa du Plessis Despite the massive tragedy that rocked the Mitchells Plain community on Tuesday morning, residents have rallied together to support the families of the five children that were killed in the catastrophic collision on AZ Berman Drive. Two other children were left seriously injured after the bakkie the school-goers were in smashed into a traffic light. According to reports, the 55-year-old driver apparently lost control of the […]
Gus Thompson, the father of former SA Olympic-medallist rower James Thompson, was found dead on Chapmans Peak in Cape Town on Saturday, more than a week after he disappeared from a frail-care facility in Noordhoek. James Thompson referred TimesLIVE to Gwen Sparks, who is acting as a spokesperson for the family. “Gus was found below the picnic area at Chapman’s Peak at 9am. The last sighting of him was last […]
Ten people died and 251 were injured in a toxic gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan's Aqaba port, state television reported on Monday, as authorities called on residents to shut windows and stay indoors, Reuters reports. The leak came after a tank filled with toxic gas fell while being transported, state news agency, Petra, said, citing the spokesperson of the Public Security Directorate. A video posted on state television's Twitter page showed a storage tank falling from a winch and slamming into […]
Tear-jerking tributes have continued to flood in from all corners of the globe, following the demise of the esteemed Moulana Muhammad Taha Karaan. In the early hours of Friday morning, The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) announced that the 51-year-old, mufti of the council, had succumbed to Covid-19 at Gatesville Medical Centre in Athlone, Cape Town. Moulana Karaan was a Shafi’i scholar born in Cape Town, South Africa to a family […]
The Chinese ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, has been found dead in his home north of Tel Aviv, according to the Israeli foreign ministry and police. No cause of death was given, and Israeli police on Sunday said it had opened an investigation. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld confirmed that Du was found in the early morning by the envoy's staff in his home in Herzliya. He said police were at […]
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.
