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Newly registered political party, Operation Dudula, wants the upcoming general elections to be postponed. This is as the party forges ahead with its plans to approach the Constitutional Court in its bid to make it onto the ballot paper. Dudula was excluded from the national ballot after it missed the deadline for the submission of candidate lists. An issue that they are blaming the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for. The […]

AbaThembu King, Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, has provided a lifeline for the students at King Sabata Dalindyebo TVET College students by donating a cow. The cow was slaughtered to feed the hungry students, who have gone months without proper meals in the wake of the ongoing NSFAS woes. Destitute students at the college say they have not received meal allowances from NSFAS in the past three months, forcing them to study and […]

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has confirmed that former President Jacob Zuma's face will appear on the ballot papers in the upcoming polls as the leader of the MK Party. Today, the IEC announced that it will now go ahead with the printing of ballot papers for the elections, despite its latest appeal to the Constitutional Court seeking clarity on the Electoral Court's decision to set aside Zuma's disqualification. The […]

The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has opened applications for special votes from today until the 3rd of May. South Africans will be heading to the polls next month, in what has been dubbed the most hotly contested elections post-1994. The country's 7th democratic general elections will be momentous as independent candidates will be contesting for the first time in history. Special votes will take place on the 27th and 28th […]

Police have made a breakthrough in the brutal killing of football star, Luke Fleurs. Six suspects were arrested in Slovoville in Soweto this morning. The 24-year-old Kaizer Chiefs player was shot and killed in a hijacking incident at a petrol station in Honeydew last week. According to the police, Fleurs was confronted by two armed males who came driving a white BMW 1 series, while waiting to be served by […]

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) says it has paid the April student allowances of whom they received information from their universities on time. This follows several complaints by students claiming that they have not received their money, while others only received a fraction of the amount. The financial aid scheme says a number of universities submitted their registration data after the payment file generation deadline. The institutions include […]

Members of the public are urged to brace themselves for more wet and slippery weather. According to the South African Weather Services (SAWS), the current rains that are lashing parts of Gauteng and the Western Cape should persist throughout this week. SAWS has issued alert warnings of severe thunderstorms, which may result in localised flooding in parts of the country. Forecaster, Lehlohonolo Thobela, says an alert Level 4 has been […]

Political analyst, Goodenough Mashego, says Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula's resignation was well-calculated and cynical. He says the former National Assembly Speaker was not going to return to Parliament either way and wanted to secure her pension. The embattled former Defence Minister announced her resignation on Wednesday, a day after the High Court in Pretoria dismissed her urgent bid to block her arrest. The politician handed herself over to the authorities yesterday and […]