After two months of Alert Level 3, South Africa moved to Level 1 on Sunday evening. In his address to the nation on Sunday night, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the country has now clearly emerged from the second wave, with fewer than 10,000 new infections in the...
Rwandan opposition group coordinator in SA, Seif Bamporiki, killed in Cape Town
JOHANNESBURG - Rwanda opposition activist Seif Bamporiki has been shot dead in Cape Town. He was a member of the Rwanda National Congress and national organiser in South Africa. It’s alleged that the businessman, who sold beds, was called for a delivery in Nyanga on...
Saudi humanitarian org donates food relief to 15 000 vulnerable South Africans
JOHANNESBURG - The King Salman Humanitarian Relief Centre donated food relief support to support vulnerable people in South Africa Wednesday. The food donation, meant to alleviate the suffering of less privileged communities during the ongoing Covid-19 induced...
Helping immigrant children get into schools
The Scalabrini Centre’s #access4EVERYchild campaign is assisting families A Zimbabwean woman, who prefers to stay anonymous, says she had been struggling since last year to get her child into school. She went to every school in Parow, but all refused to enrol her...
“We cannot live like hunted animals” – Spaza owners protest after Port Elizabeth murders
Four Somali spaza owners have been shot and killed in the past week in Nelson Mandela Bay. About 200 immigrant shopkeepers protested on the weekend. They say police do not protect them against extortion rackets. About 200 immigrant spaza shop owners shut their doors...
Daily Maverick report on Zimbabwe State Capture gains international attention
As Maverick Citizen editor Mark Heywood wrote on Tuesday, the report ‘provides a post mortem of the cancer that killed the Zimbabwean dream of freedom and independence’. Daily Maverick’s exclusive report on the massive scale of State Capture and corruption in Zimbabwe...
March Against Slave Trade and Human Trafficking in Libya
We the people of the world, on the African Continent, represented here in South Africa by the African Diaspora Forum (ADF), Faith denominations and community based organisations, trade unions platforms and concerned citizens of the world, have come to you to express...
Invitation to March Against the Slave Trade in Libya
The African Diaspora Forum (ADF); Civil society organisations; churches; trade unions etc... would like to invite everyone of the general public to participate in a march against the ongoing inhuman acts of slave trade and human trafficking in Libya.We...
Exclusive: South Africans can Learn a lot from Zimbabwean’s Bloodless Protests
SOUTH African nationals have praised their Zimbabwean counterparts for shunning violence during protests calling for the resignation of Robert Mugabe in recent days.The aged politician on Tuesday succumbed to pressure from a disillusioned public to quit...