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Security upgrades for emergency service staff

On Friday Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo outlined new plans to ensure that Emergency Medical Services (EMS) employees are safe when they are saving other people’s lives. This comes after an ambulance was attacked on Wednesday morning while transporting a critically injured child to Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital. The attack delayed seven-year-old Faigon Wildschut’s transfer to hospital. He died in hospital later that day. The boy’s mother‚ […]

11 November 2017

International News

Israel removes metal detectors from al-Aqsa compound

Israel has decided to remove metal detectors it had placed at the entrance to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem and replace them with more advanced surveillance cameras. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet voted to remove the metal detector gates after a meeting lasting several hours convening for a second time on Monday. Sheikh Najeh Bakirat, the director of al-Aqsa Mosque, said overnight on Tuesday that the move […]

25 July 2017

Tourism – Hajj and Umrah

9 helicopters for security, safety of pilgrims

The General Command for Security Aviation has started carrying out its plan for the holy month of Ramadan. Nine helicopters provided with the latest technology and medical equipment are taking part in this year’s Ramadan security and safety mission, said Air Force Maj. Gen. Muhammad Bin Eid Al-Harbi, commander of Security Aviation. He said the helicopters carry out security and humanitarian tasks and provide logistical support to all government authorities […]

29 May 2017

News

MRN writes open letter to ACSA over El Al security

Palestinian rights lobby group Media Review Network has written an open letter to the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) urging it to investigate allegations of alleged racial profiling, intimidation, harassment and the interrogation of travellers by El Al ‘security guards’ . The Media Review Network (MRN) would like to inform the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) that Israel’s national carrier, El Al, operating at O R Tambo International […]

2 May 2017

Local

Frustration as inadequate security delays minstrel event

Security requirements were not met and this is what resulted in the Athlone Stadium being kept locked for four hours on Monday, the City of Cape Town has said. Hundreds of minstrels and spectators were left waiting outside of the stadium for the event, which was meant to have started in the morning. The breakaway Cape Town Minstrel Carnival Association (CTMCA) scheduled their own minstrel competition for 11:00 on Monday […]

3 January 2017

International News

Adam Saleh removed from plane ‘for speaking Arabic’

Delta Airlines has removed a Muslim American social media star from a New York-bound plane in London together with a friend after speaking Arabic on the aircraft. In a statement after Delta Flight 1 landed in New York, Delta said the man, Adam Saleh, and the other passenger were removed because they "sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behaviour, including shouting". The airline said its information was based on […]

22 December 2016

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