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In celebration of World Read Aloud Day, the Al Ansaar Outreach team had the absolute joy of visiting Charles Hugo Primary School and Hillgrove Primary School, spreading the magic of stories, learning, and connection among young minds.   This special initiative was made even more meaningful through our collaboration with Sumaya Khan of School Matters, […]

The Municipality of eThekwini has intensified its efforts to combat cable theft. The Durban Magistrate’s Court has successfully convicted perpetrators involved in these criminal activities. A 53-year-old male contractor was convicted at the Durban Magistrate’s Court for possession of suspected stolen property, including electricity cables and streetlights. “The arrest occurred in 2023 during a co-ordinated

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is downscaling on the Neom project, a futuristic US $1.5 trillion Construction of ambitious proportions in the north east of the country. Neom, the largest, most spectacular construction vision, has become known in expert circles as a “Black Swan Event”. While the vision for the desert monarchy’s future has not

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Ethiopia has been completed and is now generating electric power. Africa’s largest dam has a capacity of 9.6 gigawatts (GW). The hydropower project is beginning to redefine Ethiopia’s economic and geopolitical position after more than a decade of controversy and negotiation. Addis Ababa is positioning the mega dam

The Franschhoek High School was intended to house a High-Performance Centre for training future athletes in Swimming. Co-sponsored by Swimming South Africa, (SSA), the World Aquatics Development Centre, and Camp Train, the project came to a halt, leaving the centre in a derelict state. Today, the site currently consists of corroding half-built structures that hint

KwaZulu-Natal has been struck by tragedy. On Wanda Cele Road, eleven people lost their lives when a taxi and a truck collided. Among the dead was a school-going child. Several others survived but sustained severe injuries. The crash occurred on the very wet and slippery R102 near Lotus Park, south of Durban Metro, on Thursday

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema appeared last week, Friday, 23 January, in the Magistrate’s Court on charges of unlawfully discharging a firearm at a party rally in Mdantsane. During the pre-sentencing proceedings, the court continues to consider issues of responsibility, risk, regret, and the wider ramifications of firearm-related offences, casting the  pre-sentencing proceedings,

eThekwini Municipality honoured its Class of 2025 top achievers at the annual Mayoral Matric Awards Ceremony. The municipality celebrated its top matriculants on 23 January at an intimate ceremony held at the Durban ICC, where Wang Kuo-Hung from Northwood High School was announced as the first-place achiever of the Class of 2025. The ceremony also

An undercover South African Police Service (SAPS) Crime Intelligence operative has told the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that the 2017 assassination of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa was not an inevitable act of violence — but one that could have been prevented if his warnings had been heeded. Testifying in camera on Monday

Durban, South Africa — The leader of the controversial March and March Movement, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, is expected to present herself at a police station on Tuesday morning after the South African Police Service (SAPS) reportedly decided to press charges against her for incitement to public violence linked to anti-immigrant protests. Ngobese-Zuma’s organisation, which has drawn