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Political Analyst, Professor Sam Koma, says it's strange that the Democratic Alliance (DA) would seek assistance from a state, which borders on undermining the sovereignty of South Africa. In a move that aggrieved many, the official opposition penned a letter to the United States government, among others, requesting that they come and oversee the country's upcoming elections. The blue party asserts that 2024 is the most crucial year for South […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa says anyone found to be inciting violence ahead of the general elections will be arrested.   The President issued a stern warning following alleged threats that riots are looming in the country.   South Africans will be heading to the polls on the 29th of May.   Umkhonto Wesizwe Party member in KwaZulu-Natal, Visin Reddy, told the media that there'll be anarchy if the party is barred […]

A patriotic citizen stood up against the staff members of the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria for neglecting a dying patient, In a video making the rounds on social media, a 28-year-old male patient can be seen laying on the passage floor, while another woman keeps reprimanding and demanding that the nurses attend to the man who seemed to be running out of breath.  The patient subsequently passed away. […]

Institutions of higher learning in and around Braamfontein, in Johannesburg, are offering counselling and support to students following the fatal shooting in the area on Thursday. Three people, including a University of Johannesburg (UJ) student, were shot dead when unknown gunmen opened fire on the occupants of a BMW vehicle that was parked opposite the Wits Art Museum. The incident took place in full view of the public, including students. […]

South African authors, readers, and stakeholders in the book industry have written to the National Assembly imploring them to protect the creatives by rejecting the Copyright Amendment Bill should it be put to vote today. Concurrence on the bill by the country’s lawmakers is scheduled for this afternoon. The authors say the bill’s proposed hybrid model of copyright exceptions goes too far and threatens to weaken copyright protection. They say […]

Political analyst, Professor Sam Koma, says the nomination of Justice Mandisa Maya as the next Chief Justice marks a turning point for the country's judiciary. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the nomination yesterday. The Deputy Chief Justice will become the first female to occupy the top judicial position not just in South Africa, but the entire continent. Maya will assume office on the 1st of September after Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's […]

DA leader, John Steenhuisen, has dared those who accused the party of practicing cadre deployment to come forward with evidence. Various former party leaders, including Herman Mashaba, Bongani Baloyi and Mmusi Maimane, claim that the official opposition is hypocritical in its bid to have the ANC's deployment policy declared unconstitutional. Baloyi, who left the DA last year, was the first politician to put the blue party on blast, saying when […]

Tributes are pouring in on social media for 25-year-old US Air Force member, Aaron Bushnell, who lost his life after setting himself on fire in protest against Israel's occupation of Gaza. The bold young man self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, saying he could no longer be complicit in genocide. In his last words, Bushnell called for a Free Palestine and said his pain could never compare to what […]

Former DA leaders have come out to slam the official opposition over its 'hypocrisy' on cadre deployment. The DA has been locked in a legal battle with the ANC in a bid to declare the governing party's cadre deployment policy unconstitutional and invalid. Former DA leader, Bongani Baloyi, however says the official opposition can't be against a policy it pratices. He has called on the party to release its FEDEX […]