The Mbekweni station in Paarl near Cape Town was the latest to be burnt down in ongoing black rioting in South Africa. A violent protest erupted in the nearby black township on Thursday night and spread to the station. On Friday morning there were scorch marks in offices at the terminal and on the tracks,
Read more: Station in Paarl, S. Africa burnt down by raging black mob
A Russian court has jailed three women for performing a twerking dance in front of a World War Two memorial. The court in Novorossiysk gave two of the dancers 10 days in jail each, a third 15 days and two others received fines on charges of petty hooliganism. Prosecutors had said their “erotic and sexual
Read more: Russian court jails dancers for twerking near monument
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says Scottish independence “feels inevitable” and predicts a hung parliament following the UK general election next week. In a series of Tweets the chairman of News Corp, which owns The Times and The Sun, expressed a range of opinions on British politics, Scottish self-rule, and rising inequality in the UK and
Read more: Independent Scotland ‘feels inevitable,’ says Murdoch
Police have released an identikit of one of the men listed as a person of interest in the murder of 28-year-old Uitenhage teacher Jayde Panayiotou. The poster of the black suspect was released by detectives on Sunday and followed photos of the two individuals captured on ATM security cameras last week. “No arrests have been
Read more: Identikit shows black suspect in PE teacher killing
Two South Africans have made it into the respected Sunday Times Rich List released on Sunday, with Ukrainian businessman Len Blavatnik taking the top spot with a personal wealth of £13.17bn (R240bn). South-African born Swazi business mogul Nathan Kirsh claimed 17th position and is said to be worth £5.06bn (R93bn), while Nicky Oppenheimer and family
Some 3218 people have been killed in the 7.9 magnitude quake, which hit Nepal on Saturday. It is Nepal’s worst quake since 1934 when 8 500 people died. Nepal’s record of earthquakes dates to at least the 13th century, with significant temblors striking every 75 years. The quake struck the heavily populated Katmandu Valley, near
Publishing a radical exhortation to sedition by a convicted black extremist like Assata Shakur in City Press (Listen up! The European is not your friend) is not only irresponsible, but demonstrates the double standards at work when it comes to freedom of expression in South Africa. If I had written a piece like that, telling
Read more: Is City Press in favour of race war? Reply to Assata Shakur
This is the beginning of the end
This is the beginning of the end
Read more: Fossil fuels just lost the race against renewables
Wages of America’s middle class have dropped below 1970s levels as immigration has surged 325 percent, according to a new congressional report that questions claims that native Americans are economically helped by greater immigration. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service report studied immigration and middle class income from 1945-2013 and found that as immigration slowed between
Monwabisi Kalawe has resigned from his position as SAA CEO, with immediate effect. He had been suspended in 2014 after allegations of “irregularities” had emerged against him. It had been reported then that SAA chairwoman Duduzile Myeni had asked the Auditor General to investigate Kalawe for allegedly keeping secret attempts to buy shares in an
There was no water supply at Africa’s biggest airport, OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, on Friday morning due to water pipe connection problems, the Airports Company of SA said. “This problem has affected one section of the airport, flights are not affected at all. The functioning of toilets has as a result been affected,”
Three more women on Thursday accused Bill Cosby of sexually abusing them decades ago, as the veteran comedian gets ready for the final show in his US comedy tour. Janice Baker Kinney, Marcella Tate and Autumn Burns said at a press conference hosted by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred that Cosby, 77, drugged and sexually assaulted
The South African Government is outraged that Israel has denied a visa to South African Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande to visit Palestine with an official delegation. “The Israeli Government is trying by all means to hide their atrocities against the Palestinian people, and minimize the number of people who can actually see what
Read more: SA government outraged after Israel denies minister visa
On Thursday, Cosatu public service unions vowed to bring the country to its knees, saying the government seemed to want to plunge the country into crisis. Pretoria’s central business district was brought to a standstill on Thursday as 11 000 public servants took to the streets. But in a week’s time the country could be
