SA to study al-Bashir ruling: The Hague – The International Criminal Court on Thursday rebuked South Africa for not arresting Sudan’s president on a genocide warrant when he visited Johannesburg in 2015, but declined to refer Pretoria to the United Nations for possible censure over the lapse. The ICC indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in 2008 over the deaths and persecution of ethnic groups in Sudan’s Darfur province between 2003 and 2008. But he has continued to travel internationally, visiting Jordan as recently as March. The first part of Thursday’s ICC ruling was expected as the war crimes court…
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South Africa: Share Information On Zuma and Guptas, Opposition Tells Bell Pottinger: [News24Wire] An apology from former Gupta public relations firm Bell Pottinger is not enough, the DA said on Thursday. ……
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South Africa: Former Gupta PR Firm Apologises: [News24Wire] Public relations firm Bell Pottinger has apologised for the work they have done with the Gupta family and Oakbay Capital. ……
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South Africa Broke Rules By Failing to Arrest Bashir – ICC: [Al Jazeera] War crimes judges have ruled that South Africa flouted its duties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2015 by failing to arrest visiting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. ……
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Petition launched after damning report on Eastern Cape schools: There are schools in the Eastern Cape that still have no access to water, electricity or sanitation. ……
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Mining community to take to the streets: The Greater Local Mining Communities Forum will embark on a peaceful protest to the Union Buildings, Tshwane metro police say. ……
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Ex-Cash Crusaders employee allegedly helped robbers: A former Cash Crusaders employee allegedly provided inside information to the robbers who randomly opened fire at bystanders and injured two people after robbing the pre-owned product retailer in Khayelitsha Mall earlier this week. The employee, according to the Khayelitsha Mall Management, resigned from Cash…
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Truck driver might have caused crash that killed 18, says MEC: Machadodorp – The driver of a truck that was involved in an accident that claimed 18 lives between Badplaas and Machadodorp in Mpumalanga might have caused the crash, provincial MEC for Safety and Security Pat Ngomane said on Thursday. “It seems the driver of the truck had some challenges on the road,” said Ngomane while speaking to the African News Agency (ANA) in Machadodorp, a small town about 140 kilometres from Middelburg. “We welcome the…
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‘Short-sighted’ MEC slated over school booze sales, snubs minister: Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has disregarded a personal request from Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga not to proceed with her ideas which include, among others, the sale and consumption of alcohol at schools. In a scathing response to the Western Cape executive’s decision, Motshekga personally raised her deep concerns with Schäfer and requested her not to table the Western Cape Provincial School Education Amendment Bill “in the hopes for wider consultation and discussion”. But Motshekga’s request was ignored, said Basic Education Department…
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BLF, Sanef back in court for judgment: The judgment in a case between the SA National Editors Forum and Andile Mngxitama and Black First, Land First will be heard in the High Court in Johannesburg. ……
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