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Mamelodi Sundowns captain, Ronwen Williams, is expecting a close encounter when they renew their rivalry against Orlando Pirates at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday. Sold-out signs went up as early as early last week for the much-anticipated Betway Premiership match. The league champions are in a rich vein of form, having scored 14 goals in their last four matches across all competitions while the Buccaneers have found the back of the […]

  South Africans have reacted with disgust and concern after a 30-year-old Mpumalanga farmer was arrested for allegedly selling repackaged expired and rotten food. According to information provided by authorities, Pieter Grobler was nabbed after receiving a tip-off that the products were repacked for delivery to different retailers destined for human consumption. Reports suggest that the young farmer would collect expired food from chain stores and other distributors, saying he […]

The Presidency has called on those who claim that the SANDF members deployed in the DRC are there to protect President Cyril Ramaphosa’s interests to provide proof. President’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, addressed the media in Cape Town in the wake of the damning allegations on the SA troop’s role in the war-stricken eastern DRC. His media address came as the bodies of 14 SANDF members, who died in the fierce […]

As As President Cyril Ramaphosa prepares to deliver his State of the Nation Address (SONA), young South Africans say their struggle to access affordable higher education and find employment must be a priority.  With hours to go before Ramaphosa outlines government's plans for the year, the youth say idle and uneducated young people must be given opportunities. "There's a lot of funding issues in universities. A lot of students sleeping […]

  International Relations expert, John Stremlau, and some ordinary South Africans say President Cyril Ramaphosa' decision to reach out to Elon Musk was a right move to ensure that false narratives about the country are curbed. The remarks are part of a fierce debate in the country over the President's decision to call Musk amid the controversy over Donald Trump's threat to cut off funding to South Africa due to […]

Just mere hours after initially being announced, fast bowler, Gerald Coetzee, has been ruled out of Proteas white-ball coach Rob Walter's provisional squad for the Tri-Nation ODI series against hosts Pakistan and New Zealand. Coetzee was expected to make his long-awaited national return having missed out on the Proteas' summer, as well as being ruled out of the Joburg Super Kings' campaign in the SA20 with a hamstring strain. He […]

Photo Credit: JP Smith Facebook Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader, Gayton McKenzie, has accused Democratic Alliance's (DA) Deputy Federal Chairperson, JP Smith, of enabling the rife gangsterism that's been ravaging through Cape Town for years. During a recent PA event, Gayton insinuated that the Mayoral Committee Member (MMC) for Safety and Security is among DA members who are giving business to gangsters, oiling their bloody networks, which continue to commit heinous […]

High-ranking officials from the Defence Ministry faced the third degree in Parliament over the deployment of SANDF troops to the DRC. Members of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans wanted to know what the South African soldiers were doing in the civil war-weary country during a sitting aimed at discussing plans to repatriate the bodies of the 14 soldiers who lost their lives in the battle with the […]

The Bulls have provided an update on the injuries of their club captains, Ruan Nortje, and Elrigh Louw, as well as first-choice fly-half, Johan Goosen. Springboks lock, Nortje, sustained a knee ligament injury in the first half of the Bulls clash United Rugby Championship clash with the Lions in Johannesburg on the 25th of January. The 26-year-old Springbok has already begun his non-invasive rehabilitation programme, which is expected to last […]

Some white South Africans have rejected claims made that they are being treated badly, saying such assertions are misleading and can lead to unnecessary tensions. They've put South African born billionaire, Elon Musk, at the centre of the renewed tensions between America and South Africa after US President and his ally, Donald Trump, threatened to halt future funding to Pretoria, citing unfair racial policies as reason. Trump's assertions came amid […]