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Yusuf Alli – Cii News News that Made it on the news wires this week MONDAY The Council for Geoscience said an earth tremor measuring four on the magnitude scale has been recorded in Johannesburg. The preliminary analysis indicated the epicentre was near the University of Johannesburg just before 10am. …

Labour Minister eases Domestic workers’ burden as minimum wage is adjusted Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant has offered a relief to the Domestic Workers Sector following an announcement that the minimum wage for the workers will be adjusted upward. The adjustment which starts on December 1 is part of an annual …

By Joseph Santolan 20 November, 2013 WSWS.org The death toll in the central Philippines continues to mount in the wake of the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan. The current official count of the Philippine government National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) was 4,881 dead as of noon, November …

  November 20 2013 at 07:55am The scene of a mall that collapsed in Tongaat. Picture: Neil Powell Related Stories PICS: Deadly Tongaat mall collapse        50 fear trapped in mall roof collapse Mall roof collapse: rescue underway One dead, 29 hurt in mall roof collapse Concrete slab falls on …

  Yusuf Alli –  Cii News |  November 2013 /14 Muharram 1435 MONDAY Survivors of Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines are in desperate need of food and water as rescue workers struggled to reach ravaged towns and villages to deliver aid to survivors after the typhoon killed an estimated 10 …

Ebrahim Moosa – Cii News| 14 Muharram 1435/18 November 2013 “He is absolutely Noorani, if you see him, you will not stop looking at his face.” With those words did Moulana Ismail Akoo, principal of Darul Uloom Newcastle, recently describe Sheikh Mohammed Ali Sabouni, a renowned Islamic scholar, who on …

By Mike Head 16 November, 2013 WSWS.org Amid reports of hunger and destitution across the central islands of the Philippines, there is growing popular anger over President Benigno Aquino’s response to the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda (known internationally as Haiyan). The inadequacy and slowness of the official international …

  How China can cause the death of the dollar and the entire U.S. financial system by Michael Snyder Source: informationclearinghouse.info  Posted by: MV Media         By: Michael Snyder   Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36796.htm   The death of the dollar is coming, and it will probably be China that pulls the …

By John Chuckman 14 November, 2013 Countercurrents.org I read that six thousand people have been killed by sectarian violence so far this year in Iraq, surely a good rough measure of what America’s invasion achieved there. In Afghanistan, America’s chosen man publically disagrees with America’s ideas of what withdrawal means, …

By Jonathan Cook 13 November, 2013 Countercurrents.org Nazareth: It seems there are still plenty of parties who would prefer that Arafat’s death continues to be treated as a mystery rather than as an assassination. It is hard, however, to avoid drawing the logical conclusion from the finding last week by …