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Syria’s civil war enters its fourth year

As Syria’s civil war enters its fourth year, a new report from global children’s advocacy group Save The Children has detailed how 10,000 children have died not just as a result of the fighting, but also from treatable or preventable diseases that have metastasized in the country. This comes after…

10 Mar 2014 11AM 12 min

Gift of the Givers

Gift of the Givers requested assistance from anybody well acquainted with Zimbabwe and the situation there. This comes after information that the floods are severe, they expanding, the number of affected people are increasing and the situation is dire with people starving, thirsty and in need of urgent medical attention,…

10 Mar 2014 10AM 12 min

Rwanda and South Africa

Rwanda and South Africa are still on speaking terms, but only barely – and if Dirco gets its way even this tenuous relationship will be terminated in the next few days. South Africa, finally, has had enough of Rwanda doing its dirty business on South African soil and has expelled…

10 Mar 2014 10AM 8 min

The Media Review Network

The Media Review Network has written an open letter to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. According to media reports which appeared in the Egyptian newspapers, a delegation of South African government officials, headed by Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele visited Egypt for bilateral talks. The reports maintain…

10 Mar 2014 10AM 9 min

Whats Trending with Bonga D

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…

7 Mar 2014 10AM 8 min

Day 5 of the Oscar Pistorius case concluded

Day 5 of the Oscar Pistorius case concluded over an hour ago. The Paralympian is accused of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on valentines day last year. The case has been a media frenzy as global media are following the trial closely. Online from Pretoria is our special correspondent Daniel…

7 Mar 2014 9AM 6 min

10th international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) campaign

Next week marks the start of th 10th international Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) campaign taking place in South Africa between the 10th and 16th of March . The IAW campaign is organized in South Africa by the IAW South Africa Team and has been endorsed by over 65 organziations across…

7 Mar 2014 9AM 9 min

Muslim Lawyers Association and Cage South Africa

Local activists led by the Muslim Lawyers Association and Cage South Africa demonstrated outside the British Consulate this afternoon, calling for the release of UK activist Moazzam Begg. Begg is a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and now works as a human rights campaigner for an organization called Cage. Begg was…

7 Mar 2014 9AM 6 min

As the standoff over Russian interference in Crimea intensifies

As the standoff over Russian interference in Crimea intensifies and the outbreak of a new war remains firmly in sight, few people wonder what the region's indigenous people - Crimean Tatars - think about the situation. That's the opening sentence of Rim Gilfanov the Director of Radio Free Europe's Tatar-Bashkir…

7 Mar 2014 9AM 17 min

What's trending with Bonga D

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…

5 Mar 2014 10AM 6 min

Shaykh Ahmad Sa'ad al Azhari

Shaykh Ahmad Sa'ad al Azhari will be delivering and completing lectures with Ijaazah in the Itqaan Fee 'Uloomul Qur'an and the Sullam from 10:00 to 15:30 at the Madina Institute campus in the ICON Building, Lower Long Str, Cape Town. This is part of his Cape Town tour titled Education…

5 Mar 2014 10AM 19 min

Bertha Justice Network global conference

A delegation of about 50 young international human-rights lawyers in Cape Town this week for a for the Bertha Justice Network global conference. These are young legal activists defending human rights all over the world – with different areas of work and perspectives on the struggles for justice in our…

5 Mar 2014 9AM 9 min

The Centre for Conflict Resolution

The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, is holding a public dialogue to launch the book My Second Initiation: The Memoir of Vusi Pikoli by Vusi Pikoli and Mandy Wiener on Tuesday 4 March 2014 at 5.30pm, at the Centre for the Book. Bonga Dlulane VOC Drivetime producer attended the…

5 Mar 2014 9AM 10 min

Relief campaign for refugees from the CAR

Africa Muslims Agency and Direct Aid International has recently implemented a relief campaign for refugees from the Central African Republic on the borders of Chad. The Campaign assisting more that 10 500 idp's at the Chadian Borders who were fleeing from the violence looming over Central African Republic. The CAR…

5 Mar 2014 9AM 9 min

What's trending with Bonga Dlulane

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…

4 Mar 2014 10AM 7 min

United States plans for Egypt and Ukraine

United States plans for Egypt and Ukraine are falling apart and Russia is scrambling to pick up the pieces. That's the words of social commentator, writer and jounlist Eric Walberg. He says in the latest color revolution, it was not an army but a rump parliament that pulled the plug…

4 Mar 2014 10AM 17 min

Muslim Lawyers

The Muslim Lawyers Association (MLA) and Cage South Africa will be holding a picket outside the British consulate in Johannesburg on Friday 7th March, calling for the immediate release of detained activist and former Guantanamo bay detainee Moazzam Begg. VOC reporter Mubeen Banderker spoke to Nadeem Mahomed from the Muslim…

4 Mar 2014 9AM 5 min

Miners Shot Down

Miners Shot Down is a documentary that showed to a packed audience at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Film maker Rehad Desai was in Marikana filming for two days before August 16, 2012 when 34 striking miners were shot dead and more than 100 wounded. Since then he has…

4 Mar 2014 9AM 10 min

The Jerusalem Magistrates' Court

The Jerusalem Magistrates' Court sentenced Shiekh Raed Salah to an eight months' suspended prison term Tuesday for incitement to violence. Salah was arrested for incitement in September over a call to his followers in which he instructed them to physically prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem –…

4 Mar 2014 9AM 10 min

What's trending with Bonga Dlulane

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…

3 Mar 2014 10AM 10 min