Disgraced RnB musician Robert Sylvester Kelly's lawyers have pinned the blame for his overdose on the prison authorities where he is incarcerated. Curtesy of TMZ on X , the jailed singer, songwriter, and record producer, who is affectionately known by the stage alias R Kelly, was rushed to the Duke University Hospital a few days after enduring a near fatal overdose while subjected to solitary confinement in prison allegedly against […]
The news of the imminent international retirement of Banyana Banyana veteran, Jermaine Seoposenwe, has sent shockwaves through the South African football fraternity. In a social media post on Monday night, the 2022 WAFCON winner wrote that it had become more evident that leaving the national team is the best decision for her well-being. She says the move has been on her mind for a while. The news comes just shortly […]
The year 2025 marks the 49th anniversary of June 16, 1976. It is almost half a century of memory with which we are dealing. By this dialogue we are engaging in a struggle against forgetting. Locally: June 16 was the bravest action - 16 years after the Sharpeville Massacre of March 21, 1960. Internationally: It took 16 years of debating in the United Nations to adopt a resolution declaring apartheid […]
Siyabangena Community Patrolling Forum is calling for the ban of taverns and shebeens in townships, which it claims are responsible for the majority of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) incidents in the country. The forum's crew is scattered over eight branches around Gauteng, responding to GBVF incidences in communities, among other things. Emmanuel Maubane, one of the leaders of the organisation's Atteridgeville branch, believes that closing every drinking hole in […]
COGTA Deputy Minister, Namane Masemola, believes it is critical that authorities remain committed to conversations about climate change and finding solutions to its devastating consequences on people's lives. Masemola was filling COGTA minister, Velenkosini Hlabisa's shoes at the Assembly Urban 20 African Mayors' Assembly and and SHERPA meeting at the International Convention Center, in Pretoria, as the minister addresses the current catastrophe in the Eastern Cape caused by the recent […]
Springbok coach, Rassie Erasmus, has backed player, Ntokozo Makhaza, to get make his Springbok debut in the future. Erasmus called Makhaza into the Springbok training camp without playing a game of professional rugby. Makhaza set the Varsity Cup seen alight with performances that have also caught the eye of the two-time Rugby World Cup winning coach. The 23-year-old Makhaza found out about his selection for the start of the international […]
Students at Mpilo Royal College, a privately-owned health sciences higher education facility in Johannesburg, are outraged by delays in the release of their exam results. The students sat for the national exams in September and November and are still waiting to hear how they performed. A former student of Mpilo Royal College's Health Promotion Officer Programme, Buhle Ngoma, is deeply upset and frustrated by the delay. She believes it is […]
Leader and founder of Voice It In Action, Kgothatso Moloto, says he hopes the upcoming National Dialogue will provide a space for young people to be heard and empowered. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the dialogue will take place on the 15th of August. The President has described this as an opportunity to forge a new social compact for the development of South Africa. “The dialogue will be a people-led, […]
Bulls utility-back, Willie le Roux, says the team will use the memory of former teammate, Cornal Hendricks, to spur them on as they face Irish powerhouse Leinster in the United Rugby Championship final this weekend. The Pretoria franchise is also looking to exorcise the demons of having fallen short against the Stormers and Glasgow in previous previous URC finals. The Hendricks' death, a month ago, hit the Bulls hard, no […]
