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Queer Activist and Wits Student Representative, Penny Tshabalala, says more needs to be done — to ensure the representation of young, queer people in government. He made the remarks in Soweto at the IEC’s Active Young South African Citizen Seminar that’s aimed at encouraging young voter participation. In a country with an estimated 14million unregistered young voters, Tshabalala says out of touch leaders are not doing enough to reach queer […]

Youth and Anti-Drug Activist, Sibusiso Ntshingila, has slammed notions that young people are entitled and simply want government to solve their problems. As the IEC looks to bolster young voter participation— the youth activist say underserved communities are being excluded from the conversation. He’s criticised the electoral commission’s Youth Summit held in Soweto today, saying not enough effort has been made to attract township youth. Ntshingila says any notions of […]

The South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) Director, Poppy Khoza, has urged the private sector to come to the table in creating a more inclusive aviation industry. She’s acknowledged a reluctance from the sector as South Africa works to transform its white-male dominated aviation space. There’ve been increasing calls for transformation in the sector— with white pilots making up about 90% of all pilots in the country and black pilots […]

The relatives of 16-year-old Diepsloot resident, Katlego Makgatho, who was shot in the stomach by criminals who broke into his home recently, say they no longer feel safe in their community. YNews has been reliably told that the teenager is fighting for his life at a Pretoria hospital after suffering severe gunshot wounds to the stomach during the armed robbery. His mother, Patricia Makgatho who was also in the home […]

What the proxy war between Russia and Ukraine illustrates is that not all lives matter nor is the wellbeing of all nations and countries. It is proof that the money-making war machines matter the most to preserving human lives. It shows us that the national interests of some countries are a given, and not so with others, is the mother of all hostilities breastfeeding toxicity amongst supposedly free nations of […]

Leaders of the Diepsloot Community Forum have committed to suspending demonstrations following a meeting with the office of the President in Pretoria today. After initially being barred from entering South Africa's official seat of government premises, a delegation of about 14 community leaders was finally granted access. They had descended on the Union Buildings to give President Cyril Ramaphosa a formal letter of demands from the community. While the President […]

Tete Morena Dijana is set to continue to work as a security guard despite winning close to R2 million at the Comrades Marathon. He walked away with R500 000 for winning the race; R500 000 for breaking the record, R200 000 as the first South African man over the finish line and R500 000 from his home province of the North West. The 35-year-old edged Piet Wiersma to win the 2023 […]

Today South Africa commemorates Youth Day, in honour of thousands of black students in Soweto who took to the streets this day in 1976 in protest against the apartheid government’s Bantu education system, which they slated as unjust and inferior compared to that of their white counterparts. The decree that Afrikaans had to be used as a medium of instruction in township schools was at the core of the protest. […]

Nothing amazes me more than seeing people who have gone through a life-changing experience from which they logically ought to be the primary source to tell all about it, finding themselves reduced to being students who ought to be taught how it was like to be oppressed. More bewildering is seeing authors of oppression and descendant beneficiaries going an extra mile to teach democracy to those they were active in […]