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Palestinian & Israeli officials dispute autopsy of dead minister

Jordanian and Palestinian doctors said Ziad Abu Ein had died from "being struck, inhaling tear gas and a delay in providing medical attention." But an Israeli medical source familiar with the autopsy results claimed the minister died from a heart attack. To help us understand and shed light on the…

12 Dec 2014 9AM 10 min

Korkie memorial

The Free State government has described slain school teacher Pierre Korkie as a brilliant thinker, committed to developing his pupils in South Africa and abroad at his memorial service, which took place in Bloemfontein earlier today. VOC reporter, Nishta Sookdiyal spoke to Daan Norde who was in attendance

12 Dec 2014 9AM 2 min

Iraqi Embassy Symposium

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

11 Dec 2014 9PM 9 min

Power war room

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

11 Dec 2014 5PM 8 min

Hong Kong protests

Hong Kong police have ordered the last remaining knot of demonstrators to leave the city's main protest site after a deadline for the crowds to disperse passed. Authorities on Thursday began dismantling barriers and breaking up rallies in the final showdown of a protest that has lasted two-and-a-half months and…

11 Dec 2014 10AM 14 min

Cabinet sets up a power 'war room'

Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe announced today of a power 'war room' in hopes to deal with the long going energy crisis. Nishta Sookdiyal has more on this as she speaks to Senior Communications Manager from South African National nergy Development Institute

11 Dec 2014 9AM 7 min

Understanding & Countering Extremism & Terrorism in AME Symposium

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

11 Dec 2014 9AM 8 min

MJC briefing on Qaradawi

The Muslim Judicial Council and the Al-Quds Foundation SA have expressed its support for Shaykh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi in light of the warrant issued for his arrest by Interpol. The warrant seeks to hold al-Qaradawi accountable for offences committed in Egypt years ago. The frail Egyptian theologian said he is stunned…

11 Dec 2014 9AM 10 min

CIA report

According to a Senate report of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) “enhanced interrogation programme” released on Tuesday, detainees faced sleep deprivation, rectal feeding, isolation in a coffin, water boarding, and other practices described as “abhorrent”. The exhaustive reported found the CIA tortured suspected terrorists in a brutal programme that produced…

10 Dec 2014 10AM 12 min

Qaradawi contests Interpol warrant

Responding to an Interpol warrant for his arrest, leading international Muslim scholar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi has hit back by insisting that he has “neither killed anyone nor inciting murder.” Qaradawi’s statements came following the international police agency claimed that he made an “agreement, incitement and assistance to commit intentional murder, helping…

10 Dec 2014 10AM 10 min

BDS and Woolies meet for the first time

Representatives of BDS South Africa met with a delegation of Woolworths yesterday at the offices of the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town. The meeting, long sought and requested by BDS South Africa and the NC4P, was convened as per a recent South Gauteng High Court order

10 Dec 2014 9AM 4 min

State granted leave to appeal Pistorius conviction

South African prosecutors have won their bid to appeal the "culpable homicide" sentence handed down to Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for killing his girlfriend. Now they are going to seek a murder conviction for the world-famous athlete at the Supreme Court. The amputee athlete was sentenced to five…

10 Dec 2014 9AM 11 min

What's trending

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

9 Dec 2014 10AM 8 min

CIA detention and interrogation program report

The CIA is bracing for what could be one of the most damaging moments in its history: a public airing of its post-9/11 embrace of torture. The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release a landmark inquiry into torture as early as Tuesday, after the Obama administration made a last-ditch…

9 Dec 2014 10AM 17 min

Gift of the Givers

Yolande Korkie visualised embracing her husband Pierre on his return from Yemen, but instead felt intense pain as his remains arrived in the country this morning. She addressed the press in Johannesburg today and said that although the family has lost Pierre, they do not regret anything that happens because…

9 Dec 2014 9AM 7 min

Oscar Pistorius appeal

Today marks the 49th day of Oscar Pistorius’s prison sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and court has reconvened to decide whether his conviction and jail term can be appealed. The prosecutions aim is to argue "on a point of law" that the disgraced Paralympic athlete should not have…

9 Dec 2014 9AM 10 min

Inside Kenya's Death Squads

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has shed light on the mysterious extrajudicial killings that have been witnessed in the country. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera, officers from four units of Kenya’s counter-terrorism strategy admitted the police assassinate suspects on government orders. Today, Kenya’s police squads have admitted for the first time…

8 Dec 2014 10AM 15 min

Eskom

Earlier today, Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona briefed media on the power system and a forecast for the festive season.He apologized to the nation for the inconvenience of the past few weeks due to load shedding. Eskom has communicated for an extended period to South Africa that the power system is…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 4 min

The botched rescue mission

UK-born US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie have been killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a failed rescue bid. Saturday's operation was carried out by joint US and Yemeni special forces in the southern Shabwa region. US President Barack Obama condemned the "barbaric murder" of…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 12 min

Dewani a free man

Shrien Dewani is a free man after the Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of his application to be discharged of killing his wife Anni Hindocha. Dewani's lawyers brought the application last month in terms of Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act. This opened the way for a…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 11 min