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The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it has received some complaints over the brewing racial tensions at the University of Pretoria. The commission's acting Gauteng manager, Zamantungwa Mbeki, says these complaints are in the process of being investigated. Earlier this week, members of the AfriForum Youth pasted "No Whites Allowed and Blacks Only" stickers at the entrances of the Hatfield campus, saying this was in retaliation to the […]

The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) is calling on South Africans to get to a point where conversations around mental health are not had in secret. According to SADAG, in South Africa one in three people will or does suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lives.  SADAG Operations Director, Cassey Chambers, says once these conversations are had more openly, the more people will become […]

Professor of Politics and International Relations at UJ, Siphamandla Zondi, says mediation is needed to end the tit for tat battle between Israel and Palestine. More than 700 Israelis died over the weekend after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel. Professor Zondi says while the loss of life is indisputably unacceptable, Jerusalem isn't completely innocent in the matter. As Israeli drafts its reservists, the scholar says the continued retaliations […]

Operation Dudula says the time has come for foreign spaza shop owners to leave communities, as children cannot keep dying because of the products they sell. The anti-migrant movement's call follows the tragic death of at least five children in separate cases in Gauteng due to food poisoning. It comes hot on the heels of calls from Soweto residents who want all local spaza shops vetted and shutdown if found […]

Political analyst, Dr Sam Koma, has rejected as baseless Jacob Zuma Foundation's claims that President Cyril Ramaphosa breached the equality clause in the Constitution by overlooking deputy Chief Justice, Mandisa Maya, for the position of Chief Justice. Dr Koma says Section 174 of the Constitution states that an appropriately qualified woman or man who is fit and proper person may be appointed as a Chief Justice and the candidates forwarded […]

Social activist, Kekeletso Khena, says children must be protected from pedophiles, who she believes are all adult men who sleep with minors. Khena has launched a petition calling on the Department of Health to introduce a policy that forces doctors to report cases of minors falling pregnant to the police. In its 2019/2020 report, Stats SA revealed that KZN recorded the highest number of child pregnancies, followed by Limpopo and […]

The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in KwaZulu-Natal says it has launched its own investigation into the violent assault of disabled boy by security officers at Ladysmith provincial hospital. This after a video of the two men assaulting the boy in his hospital bed went viral on social media, causing massive outrage. The security officials involved in the scandal have now been fired, while the nurses who […]

Civil rights movement, #NotInMyName, says the continued delays in the case against the man dubbed the Ekurhuleni serial rapist, Nkosinathi Phakathi, is causing secondary victimisation of his victims and their families. This after the trial was postponed to the 27th of November earlier today. Judge Lesego Makolomakwe, ordered that the 32-year-old be sent for psychiatric assessment. Earlier this week, his mental health was brought into question, after a psycho-legal suggested […]

In a YNews exclusive, Hip-hop rapper AKA's mother, Lynn Forbes, says finding the culprits who killed her son does not mean that police will know who paid for the hit. She was speaking on the sidelines of the Metropolitan Thematic Media Roundtable last night. Her remarks came days after Police Minister, Bheki Cele, claimed that they were close to cracking the double-murder case of AKA and his friend, Tebello "Tibz" […]