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The Department of Basic Education has urged communities to reclaim school property and assist law enforcement to crack down on rampant crime and vandalism. At a Critical Thinking Forum in Johannesburg, DBE Chief Director, Seliki Thlabane, said that criminals stealing from schools have undermined efforts to provide quality education. He also appealed with communities to stop protecting the law breakers. Thlabane's remarks follow escalating shooting and robbery incidents in local […]

Dr Patricia Moloi-Motsepe says for youth unemployment to be addressed; young people must prepare themselves for the jobs of the future. She was speaking at the Motsepe Foundation’s Youth-Tech Expo in Johannesburg, where more than 1000 unemployed graduates gathered. It was an exciting mix of young and experienced professionals who gathered to network and address the country’s unemployment crisis. The young people say they can no longer be comfortable being excluded from the economy. Lesego Themba, […]

The Investigating Officer in the case against the murder-accused couple, Sibusiso and Lerato Mahlangu, has described how Lerato was crying and unable to speak after allegedly murdering the father of her child.  Officer Michael Nchaupe Meselane took to the stand as the next witness in the couple's fraud and murder trial. The Mahlangus are accused of murdering Lerato’s ex-lover and father of her child, Sibusiso Sithebe, and using his body as a […]

Following allegations by some US women that they face discrimination on the dating app Hinge, technology expert Arthur Goldstuck agrees that dating apps can be racist. In a series of TikTok videos, the women accused the app's algorithm of intentionally relegating them to the bottom of the dating pool, resulting in a limited selection of potential matches. Despite a Pew Research study showing that Black and Hispanic women use dating […]

Matric pupils at Bishops Diocesan College, in Cape Town, have taken the school to task over the hoisting of the pride flag. Together with some members of the Student Representative Forum (SRF), they penned a statement urging the school not to do so this year. Bishops College has been flying the flag for three days during Pride Month to recognise and support members of the queer community at the school […]

As South Africans prepare for a new Government of National Unity, Cultural and Political Analyst, Professor Musa Xulu, says he's not surprised by the Inkatha Freedom Party's (IFP) decision to work with the ANC. The IFP yesterday announced the news after the ANC failed to secure the majority at the polls last month. Party President, Velenkosini Hlabisa, further confirmed that the IFP will partner with the DA, ANC and NFP in KZN […]

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) says strange needles on workers' desks, and complaints of sickness from several employees led officials to suspect that something sinister was taking place at their Mkhondo offices in Mpumalanga. SASSA Provincial Spokesperson, Senzeni Ngubeni, says after checking CCTV footage, officials discovered that witchcraft was taking place. A footage of the incident has since gone viral on social media, where a man can be […]

At the back of Freedom Day celebrations, legendary South African musician, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, says it hurts to see young people still struggling to find jobs, 30 years into democracy. The musician was addressing dignitaries at a Freedom Day event held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Saturday. President Cyril Ramaphosa and former President Thabo Mbeki, whose been vocal about his discontent with the governing party in recent years, were […]