By Neelam Rahim About 30 suspended NUMSA elected leaders, including shop stewards and officials, are taking the union...
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Country Loses Two Giants in Struggle Hero Duarte and literature Legend Don Materra Who Died 24 Hours Apart
By Neelam Rahim The country is reeling after the loss of ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte on Sunday and...
Africa Report: People in Africa have to die in big numbers before the media covers the issue
By Neelam Rahim In discussion with Radio Islam is Thandi Smith, Head of Programmes at Media Monitoring Africa. Thandi...
‘Depressed’ Singaporean Woman Admits to Abusing, Killing Domestic Worker
In what has been called by prosecutors one of the worst cases of domestic worker abuse in Singpore, helper, Piang Ngaih Don, from Myanmar, was stamped on, strangled, choked, battered with brooms, and even burned with an iron. Al Jazeera reports that her Singaporean...
Mboweni Tables R 2 Trillion Budget Focusing on Vaccine Rollout & Efficient Spending Giving South Africans Hope
Faizel Patel – 24/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has tabled a two trillion rand budget that he says will focus on COVID-19 vaccine rollout and efficient spending. Mboweni presented his budget in Parliament on Wednesday. The finance...
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[LISTEN] What did Sister Zeenat Nagdee do with a 100 Bucks?
Faizel Patel – 24/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 With the current economic climate in South Africa and the COVID-19 pandemic, what can you do with a hundred bucks? Not much you say. Well this is where you are wrong you see, because if you spend wisely, you can...
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[LISTEN] Response to Professor Nuraan Davids Critique of Muslim Education & Muslim Schools in SA
Faizel Patel – 24/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 The Secretary of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) Ebrahim Ansur says while the first Muslim schools pre-dispensation were established by pioneers to avoid learners being influenced by foreign ideologies and an...
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[LISTEN] Nutritional Status of South African Children Deteriorating
Faizel Patel – 24/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 The University of Cape Town 2020 Child Gauge has revealed that one in four children under the age of five are stunted. According to the report, this is a chronic undernutrition that has remained stubbornly unchanged...
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[LISTEN] Gift of the Givers: Makhanda Water Situation Critical, Town Badly Hit
Faizel Patel – 24/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers was urgently called in to assist in the Eastern Cape town of Makhanda after the taps ran dry for more than seven days. After a series of small failures throughout January,...
Congo Blames Rwanda’s Hutu Rebels for Italian Envoy’s Death
Hutu rebels in Rwanda have denied allegations that they were behind the killing of the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo. They say that the DRC and Rwandan militaries are behind Luca Attanasio’s killing . Attanasio had been on a field trip in...
Israeli ‘Enemy Ship’ Responsible for Ecological Disaster in Mediterranean
Lebanon has blamed “a ship of the Israeli enemy” for the country’s worst marine ecological disaster since 2006, following an oil leak in the Mediterranean. Al Arabiya reports that Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, has deputed the Ministers of Defence and...
Facebook Lifts Ban on News in Australia
Faizel Patel – 23/02/2021 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143 Facebook has announced it will lift a ban on Australians sharing news after a deal was struck with the Australian government on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg...