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The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has refuted social media assertions that the agency took part in fraudulent activity. The grant payment agency is accused of having paid about R140 million to more than 74 000 dead beneficiaries over the past three years. The allegations emanate from a written response by Social Development Minister, Lindiwe Zulu, to a parliamentary question. SASSA spokesperson, Paseka Letsatsi, however says the story has […]

Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, OUTA, says NSFAS must now focus on restoring stability to the student financial aid scheme by hiring a permanent CEO. The organisation's remarks follow the thwarting of former CEO Andile Nongogo's attempt for reinstatement. Yesterday, the Labour Court declared Nongogo's termination of employment lawful and valid after he had approached the court in a bid to challenge the unilateral termination of his employment contract without a […]

A concept image showing a regular South African Rand banknote that is half melted and liquified dripping on an isolated studdio background Economist, Dawie Roodt, says judgment dismissing the case against the more than banks, which were accused of manipulating the rand is not surprising. On Monday evening, the Competition Appeals Court's cleared Standard Bank, FirstRand, and Nedbank, along with other foreign banks for their alleged involvement in the scandal […]

The Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, says he has nothing to hide. He was responding to mounting calls for his axing following a NSFAS corruption scandal in which he is implicated. Nzimande says he is not afraid and has thus voluntarily decided to subject himself to the relevant legal processes and ethics bodies of the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP). Last week, OUTA released voice […]

The news of Grade R-7 learners having being sold drug-laced muffins sent shockwaves across the country, shining the spotlight on the need for better vetting processes of street vendors and improved school safety. In September, 90 learners from Pulamadibogo Primary School in Soshanguve were hospitalised after eating muffins laced with marijuana, allegedly sold to them by young people outside their school. The children were rushed to local medical facilities after experiencing […]

The story of Mzansi's very own Houdini's great escape remains one of the biggest news stories to captivate South Africans in recent times and as the authorities push to nail all those who helped him flee and live undetected for almost a year - the case promises to lay bare details of corruption, incompetence, bribery and fraud within South Africa's criminal justice system. The Facebook rapist and murderer Thabo Bester's […]

Newly registered political party, Operation Dudula, has threatened to interdict the Commission of the Inquiry into the Marshalltown fire should Justice Sisi Khampepe not be removed as the chairperson of the commission. Earlier today, YNews was told that Dudula submitted a letter to the commission, calling for Khampepe's head. The party is accusing her of de-campaigning it. This follows her decision to recuse Thulani Makhubela following an application by residents […]

Bafana Mahungela will have to spend Christmas behind bars after his matter was postponed to next week Friday. The state requested the postponement in order to finalise certain aspects of its investigations. The 21-year-old Mahungela returned to the Alexandra Magistrate Court today for his bail hearing. He has been charged with the murder and rape of a pregnant Johannesburg teacher, Kirsten Kluyts, during a MyRun event in October. An autopsy […]

American entertainment companies, Marvel Studios and Walt Disney, have dropped Emmy-nominated actor, Jonathan Majors, following his gender-based violence conviction. A New York jury has found Majors guilty on two of the four charges relating to the assault of his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The 34-year-old will be sentenced in February and faces up to a year in prison. The conviction comes nine months after he was charged for attacking Jabbari. […]