Police in the Western Cape are investigating two cases of murder following the petrol bombing of a double-decker bus that killed two passengers on Tuesday night in Strand. Police spokeswoman Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said several cases of attempted murder were also being investigated. “According to the reports, a bus traveling on the Onverwacht Street, Lwandle
EU official denies reponsibility in migrant crisis
The crisis of mass migration of refugees from Africa was not caused by European countries, but by autocratic leaders, a European official said on Tuesday. Roeland van de Geer, European Union ambassador to South Africa, said the cause of the crisis in North Africa “lies squarely with its own leaders”. Speaking after a meeting between
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Bob’s latest speech blunder
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe made a speech blunder on Tuesday during the opening of the third session of the eighth Parliament of Zimbabwe. Instead of reading the parliamentary opening speech, Mugabe re-read his State of the Nation Address, which he delivered in late August. Presidential spokesperson George Charamba acknowledged the blunder. “There has been a
Hungary closes main migrant crossing as EU struggles with deal
Hungary closed the main migrant crossing with Serbia and more states imposed border checks Monday as the failure of EU ministers to agree how to share the burden of a flood of refugees deepened the crisis. With Europe’s 20-year-old Schengen passport-free zone creaking under the pressure, Austria and Slovakia said they would follow economic powerhouse
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Saudi Arabia offers to build 200 mosques in Germany
Saudi Arabia is offering to pay for the construction of enough mosques in Germany to facilitate the needs of every 100 refugees that enter the country. The offer comes as Europe has been flooded with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from Syria and Iraq. Fanning out across Europe, seeking refuge, some
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Facebook pledges to combat German racism
Facebook pledged Monday to combat racist hate speech on its German-language network amid an upsurge in xenophobic comments online as Germany faces an unprecedented influx of refugees. The US social media network said it would encourage “counter speech” and step up monitoring of anti-foreigner commentary, as company representatives were due to meet German Justice Minister
Austria deploys army against migrants
The Austrian army has been sent to assist in introducing tougher border checks amid the growing migrant crisis, Reuters cited the country’s vice-chancellor as saying. At least 2,200 soldiers will assist police in tackling the refugee crisis on the border, according to a statement from the Austrian government. The soldiers will be deployed when their
Farm attack foiled by jamming gun
A gun pressed to his forehead, Hopewell farmer Mark Anthony looked into the cold eyes of the black man who was about to kill him, and then heard him pull the trigger. He expected everything to fade to black, but realised he could still feel his heart racing, and the hooded man was still standing
Exercise Mahombekombe in full swing
The SADC special forces training programme code-named ‘Exercise Mahombekombe’ begun in Kariba on Tuesday and will run until the 26th of next month. Eight regional member states’ defence forces are taking part in the exercise which is part of SADC’s efforts to sharpen the forces inter-operability and strengthen its rapid intervention capacity. Officially launching Exercise
Poland slams new Russian-German pipeline
Poland’s conservative president on Tuesday slammed a deal between Russia’s Gazprom energy giant and several leading Western firms to build a second gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, saying it ignores Polish interests. “Considering that an agreement was concluded on building Nord Stream-2, which completely ignores Polish interests, one must seriously question unity” in the
Overwhelming majority vote for Palestinian flag at UN HQ
UN General Assembly has passed a Palestinian resolution to allow its flag fly in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York, angering Israel and giving hope to Palestinians seeking to gain full UN membership. The resolution stated that flags of non-member observer states like Palestine “shall be raised at [UN] Headquarters [in New
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Finland to tax rich to pay for refugees
Finland’s government on Thursday proposed increasing capital gains tax and income tax on high earners to help pay for a 10-fold increase in refugees expected to arrive this year, its finance minister said. The EU migrant crisis proposes a political as well as a financial challenge for the coalition, whose foreign minister, Timo Soini, heads
‘H. Naledi an animal on the cusp of transition’
The spotlight in human evolution had long since shifted to the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. Lee Berger, the American paleoanthropologist got a job at the University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, to hunt for fossils in the 1990s, but Berger has almost alone in arguing that South Africa was the place to look for
9/11 Fourteen Years Later
Millions of refugees from Washington’s wars are currently over-running Europe. Washington’s 14-year and ongoing slaughter of Muslims and destruction of their countries are war crimes for which the US government’s official 9/11 conspiracy theory was the catalyst. Factual evidence and science do not support Washington’s conspiracy theory. The 9/11 Commission did not conduct an investigation.