The pre-trial hearing of the Thulsie twins is expected to be heard in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Friday. Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie were arrested during raids in Newclare and Azaadville, on the West Rand, in July 2016. The twins were allegedly linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS) and were allegedly planning to detonate explosives at a US embassy and Jewish institutions in SA, according to […]
At least 74 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in two gun-and-car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. The attacks in the southern province of Thi Qar on Thursday started with unidentified assailants opening fire inside a restaurant on the main highway that links the capital Baghdad with the southern provinces. Shortly afterwards, an explosives-laden car targeted a security checkpoint in the same area. […]
At least 24 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded after a suicide car bomb targeted a bus carrying ministry staff in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, officials said. Intelligence officials told Al Jazeera that the bus was carrying staff of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum when it came under attack on Monday. The attack happened just before 7am local time (02:30 GMT) and took place close to the […]
At least two people have died and hundreds more have fallen ill after suffering food poisoning in a camp for displaced Iraqis east of Mosul, officials said. People started vomiting and some fainted after eating the fast-breaking iftar meal on Monday, lawmaker Zahed Khatoun, a member of the Iraqi parliament's committee for displaced people told Reuters news agency on Tuesday. Iraq's health minister told The Associated Press that a girl […]
At least 36 bodies have been recovered from a casino and hotel complex in the Philippine capital, Manila, where a lone gunman opened fire overnight. Most of the dead suffocated in thick toxic smoke after the man set fire to casino tables, officials told the BBC. The gunman, whose nationality is not yet known, began shooting in the casino in Resorts World Manila in the early hours of Friday morning. […]
Islamic State (ISIS) fighters have closed the streets around Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque, residents said, apparently in preparation for a final showdown in the battle over their last major stronghold in Iraq. Dozens of fighters were seen by residents taking up positions in the past 48 hours around the medieval mosque, the site where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamist caliphate in July 2014. Islamic State's black […]
By Yaseen Kippie The Rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in South Africa was the topic of discussion at IPSA's 7th Annual Wasatiyyah symposium this past Saturday. The symposium took place at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. With the emphasis on the root causes behind people joining the group, ISIS-based ideologies in South Africa and the hysteria of the media, the call was […]
Is South Africa vulnerable to ISIS activity on its soil? That’s the question experts will unpack at IPSA’s 7th Annual Wasatiyyah Symposium, to be held in Cape Town on Saturday 20 May under the theme ‘ISIS in South Africa? Measuring its Scope and Mitigating its Influence’. This year’s event is hosted in partnership with the Afro Middle East Centre (AMEC) and seeks to examine the presence of aspects of ISIS’s […]
By Yaseen Kippie Amidst the growing political, social and economic crises of the world today, outward violent movements gain enhanced media coverage through breaking news, broadcasting the latest of an almost innumerable amount of terrorist attacks witnessed by the world over. The seemingly insurmountable task of removing these crises is often the result of world governing organizations not treating the problem at its root cause. When treating a problem 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.
