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Alleged insurance killer, Sibusiso Mahlangu, had a staggering R7 000 in his wallet on the day he and his wife, Lerato, allegedly murdered her ex-lover and went into hiding.  Prosecutor, Vusimuzi Tshabalala, presented this evidence during Lerato's gruelling cross-examination in the Pretoria High Court.  Lerato denied any knowledge of the large sum of cash, which sparked questions about whether it was intended to support Sibusiso while he evaded authorities.  The […]

    A year after playing their first Women's T20 World Cup final on home soil, the Proteas Women are on course to make it two in two years after they made it through a tough Group to book a semi-final spot. With the match between England and West Indies just over the halfway stage, South Africa's semi-final spot was confirmed. South Africa had one foot in the semi-finals even […]

Potter's House Word Church's senior pastor, Charles Mudau, and two of his congregants Justice Makushu and Albert Mushiana, have been slapped with a R20 000 fine or 12 months behind bars for torturing an owl. Trouble for the trio began last year when a Western Barn Owl was spotted on the roof of the church building during a Sunday service. When singing, loud claps and shouting of Bible verses were […]

Gauteng Premier and provincial ANC chairperson, Panyaza Lesufi, has hit back at the Democratic Alliance (DA), accusing it of running a relentless and desperate campaign to unseat him, destabilise and choke the province. "My message to the DA is try harder masters, the slaves have woken up and smelled the coffee," adds the Premier. Yesterday, the ANC's key Government of National Unity (GNU) partner accused him of sitting on reports […]

Prisoners' rights activist, Miles Bhudu, says it's time for South African lawmakers to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the implementation of rehabilitation and reintegration programmes for former inmates. Bhudu says Mzansi has it to the T only in theory as the country has failed, since the dawn of democracy, to ensure that ex-offenders don't fall back to their old ways. According to him, rehabilitation starts […]

Award winning artist, Chris Brown, has hit back at naysayers, who want him banned from performing in South Africa. The "Kiss Kiss" hitmaker took to Instagram to respond to a Women for Change petition, which is calling for a boycott of his much-anticipated concert. The anti-GBV organisation believes supporting Brown is in bad taste for the country that is grappling with a gender-based violence and femicide crisis. According to the […]

The family of Orange Farm tavern owner, who shot and killed seven people on Sunday before turning the gun on himself, have fled the community amid concerns over retaliation.  The community is angry over Juju Rodney Mathebula's actions, which marred the Matsiona family's lobola celebrations after he burst into their home and gunned down family members. On that fateful night, eyewitnesses allege that Mathebula stormed out of his tavern after […]

The family of Katleho Olifant (7), who is the sixth child to die in the recent alleged food poisoning incident in Naledi, Soweto, have pleaded with the government to make sure that such a tragedy never happens again. Olifant passed away on Sunday after he was in ICU for a week. He took his last breath on the day his five friends, Zinhle Maama (7), Monica Sathekge (6), Njabulo Msimango […]

The brazen scandals in Bhisho - be it aging sex pests with chronic diseases molesting young interns or financial/political misdemeanours taking centre stage instead of service delivery - they all never cease to amaze me. It is so because the provincial seat of the failing Eastern Cape government has always been in the news for all the wrong reasons - for years now. I’m writing this blog post following Friday's (October 11) […]