There is a reading crisis in South Africa as only 18% of children in grade 4 can read for meaning, and it is estimated this cohort is a full year behind same age children from 2019. This was revealed by the annual 2030 Reading Panel convened by former deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Tuesday. The report compiled by Nic Spaull, a researcher at Stellenbosch University, found despite President Cyril Ramaphosa’s […]
British police said they are treating a stabbing rampage in a park that killed three people as a "terrorist attack". Three people were killed and three others seriously wounded in the stabbing attack in the city's Forbury Gardens Park on Saturday. UK’s coordinator of counterterrorism policing, Dean Haydon, said on Sunday that counterterror detectives were taking over the investigation into the attack in the town of Reading. Police had earlier […]
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.
