Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislam.org.za 9 May 2023 | 06:00 CAT 3 min read The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has...
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Substation fire causes blackout in Ladysmith
Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislm.org.za May 8, 2023 | 22:00 CAT 1 min read On May 7, 2023, the switch house on the N11...
Africa’s Travel Indaba returns to Durban
Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislam.org.za May 8, 2023 | 18:00 CAT 2 min read Post-pandemic and after the KwaZulu-Natal...
Protective bail granted to former Pakistani PM Imran Khan
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 17 March 2023 | 19:50 CAT The Lahore High Court has granted protective bail to former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in relation to multiple legal cases filed against him earlier this week. The development came...
United Nations extends aid mission in Afghanistan
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 16 March 2023 | 23:30 CAT The United Nations Security Council has renewed the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for an additional year while also appealing for recommendations on a strategy for the international...
Protests continue in France over pension reform plan by Macron
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 16 March 2023 | 22:00 CAT Thousand of protesters have gathered at central Paris square against French President Emmanuel Macron’s pensions reform plan as riot police used batons, tear gas and water cannons to clear the...
Libyan forces recover 2.3 tonnes of missing Uranium
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 16 March 2023 | 21:20 CAT Libyan forces say they have recovered more than 2 tonnes of natural uranium that was reported missing by the United Nations nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in the...
Sri Lanka faces its worst crisis as economy shrinks by 7.8 percent in 2022
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 15 March 2023 | 22:20 CAT Sri Lanka’s crisis-hit economy has shrunk by a record 7.8 percent in 2022 according to official data. This as the country faces its worst financial crisis in seven decades. The island nations...
UK announces budget to boost workforce while workers protest over better wages
Umamah Bakharia | ub@radioislam.co.za 2 min read 15 March 2023 | 23:15 CAT The United Kingdom’s finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, has unveiled a plan aimed at speeding up an idled economy just as thousands of workers continue to protest calling for better working...
Solidarity says its members will go to work on Monday
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 2-minute read 17 March 2023 | 21:17 CAT With the country on tenterhooks as the EFF and several unions plan a national shutdown on the 20th, one trade union has already indicated that its workers will go to work on Monday. Trade...
SAPU and NUPSAW call off the Strike
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 2-minute read 17 March 2023 | 21:07 CAT The South African Policing Union, or SAPU and NUPSAW, has called off the strike action in the public service for today. The unions served the Department of Public Service and Administration...
Once proud Rahima Moosa Hospital is now a filthy and unsafe facility: Obudsman
Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za 2-minute read 17 March 2023 | 20:57 CAT South Africa’s health ombudsman has released a bombshell report into the dire conditions for pregnant women and babies in the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg. The...