Over the weekend the University of the Western Cape took on a new challenge to try and end period poverty on their campus. In Cape Town alone period poverty is very common. When girls cannot afford sanitary pads or tampons, they use socks, wash clothes or any material they can find. UWC’s new initiative’s goals are to improve student wellness. They are now providing sanitary pads to students. The Gender and Security Officer for the SRC Inathi Gogela says that many students don't have access to sanitary pads and often they also don’t have money to purchase them. She feels as an SRC member I have a duty to increase the accessibility to sanitary pads around campus.
The deputy vice-chancellor: Student Development and Support, Professor Matete Madiba says that we cannot ignore the fact that some of our students struggle to acquire menstrual hygiene products. This can have an adverse effect on their health, academic success and overall wellbeing, and undermine their dignity. This initiative has received a warm welcome by all.
Since Friday afternoon citizens are urged to be cautious around the Tokai area as there are reports of taxi violence. According to reports the taxis blocked Tokai Road. Members of the public were unable to leave or go into the area. Shots were being fired and police who arrived on the scene, they closed the road from Main Road until the M3. Moosa Joseph a popular taxi driver was killed at the scene.
Police spokesperson Captain FC van Wyk says that while he was
sitting he was approached an unidentified male who randomly shot at him. He was declared deceased on the scene by medical personnel. The motive for this incident forms part of the police investigation.
Consultant on policing to the Institute for Security Studies David Bruce says that according to a 2021 Global initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GITOC) report, 51% (438) of the 858 assassinations in South Africa between 2015 and 2020 were associated with conflict in the taxi industry. He says that taxi violence is one of many facets of violence that is simply seen as an embedded feature of South African life.
Bruce says that a solution to this major problem is coordinating the recovery of illegal firearms with a dedicated data-driven response to firearm violence, focusing on those areas and sectors that are the most prevalent. Bruce explains that In the provinces that have the highest rates of firearm-related homicides in South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Eastern Cape, a more decisive response to high levels of murder requires a sustained focus on gun violence.
The Western Cape police spokesperson, Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi says the abalone plant operation took place on Wednesday, March 6. The Western Cape Serious and Violent Crime: Stock Theft Unit busted a plant that was processing abalone with an estimated street value of over R2.8 million. The plant was busted in Walkerville in Sedibeng, Gauteng. Swaartbooi says that the team members returned to the identified address in Walkerville where they discovered a fully operational abalone processing plant on a small holding.
A suspect tried to flee the scene but detained the 51-year-old man on charges of attempted murder, reckless and negligent driving, possession of abalone, and possession of an illegal jamming device. They will appear in the Meyerton Magistrate’s Court. The problem is the high demand for abalone from China, Japan and Taiwan.
You are only allowed to harvest 120kg per year in South Africa according to the law. The consequences of this can be seen in the fishing village of Hawston. France 24 speaks to Raphael Fisher a local fisherman who says that there is no work.
Farmed abalone has now become an industry of its own. CEO of Hik Abalone Farm Bertus van Oort says that he does not want to stock the sea because that would create a bigger poaching problem. Most of the abalone
We would just like to with all our Muslim listeners a Ramadhan Kareem. May this month bring you peace of mind, patience and tolerance. May you be blessed tremendously. Our CEO of Inspired Elsies Radio Imraanh Mukaddam shares his message to everyone that will be reaping the blessings and rewards of this auspicious month. He says that this Ramadaan is different from any Ramadaan he has experienced in his life.
He says the tragedy, suffering and the oppression that we have all witnessed in 1445 (Islamic year) has not been seen in the 21st century and has not been seen in the 20th century. we see the mass industrialised genocide of an entire people in Gaza. We ponder and reflect and just as we become despondent Gaza inspires us with imaan and faith.
The faith of a people that can't be conquered. The faith of a people that is triumphant and victorious in their adversity, in their humiliation, in their subjugation, in their oppression. They strive and rise above and showing the world that through faith the most difficult of test and the most difficult of challenges can be confronted.
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor has a solution for the Muslim people in the Gaza region. She says that we need to get aid into Palestine. She knows how we can do it.
All the powerful countries with big armies, that are giving arms to Israel. They must send their soldiers to the Rafah border to escort the 700 trucks aid into Gaza. The matter is on the BBC and they asked her does she really expect that to happen.
She says that if the world has a conscience that is what must happen. Pandor says that it must be them to ensure that we do not have dead skeletons on the streets of Gaza because people are starving. The BBC asked if Israel will allow it. And Pandor responded by asking if Israel will shoot their biggest supporters. It is only the supporters of Israel who have a big responsibility to address the needs of the people of Gaza.
