By Lee-Yandra Paulsen In response to the recent tariff hike implemented by the City of Cape Town, the lobby group Stop COCT has announced plans to hold a protest at the Cape Town Civic Centre on August 9 at 10h00. The city's tariff increase of 17.6% took effect on July 1, 2023, and has drawn significant public concern. Sandra Dixon, a representative of Stop COCT, expressed their dissatisfaction with the […]
Lobby group, AfriForum, has won a costs order against the extension of the government’s national state of disaster to curb the spread of COVID-19. In February 2022, AfriForum served court documents in which the Pretoria High Court was requested to declare the state of disaster as invalid and unlawful. Despite the organisation’s impending legal action, the government extended the state of disaster for a further month on 15 March 2022. […]
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.
