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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) […]

Lerato Mahlangu, the Soshanguve woman accused of helping to orchestrate the shocking murder of her ex-lover, Sibusiso Sithebe, has denied setting up a meeting between her husband, Sibusiso Mahlangu, and their alleged victim before his brutal death.  Lerato, alongside her husband, made a brief appearance at the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Mahlangu has been infamously dubbed the "Kasi Bester" after faking his own death and using Sithebe's body as […]

Controversial podcaster, Macgyver Mukwevho, aka MacG, has issued what some have described as a half-hearted apology to Amapiano musician, Nolwazi Nzama popularly known as Nkosazana Daughter. This comes after the artist reportedly slapped MacG with a R13 million lawsuit for claiming that she had cheated on her boyfriend, fellow Amapiano musician, Tumelo Zwane known as Sir Trill, with Master KG. He claimed that the "Jerusalema" hitmaker is actually the real […]

Social media has been abuzz following a fall out between music producer, Oscar Mbo, and award-winning artist, Makhadzi. The BET award winner, Makhadzi born Ndivhudzannyi Ralivhona, has clarified that it wasn't Oscar Mbo who removed her USB during her Macufe Festival performance at the weekend but one of his team members. Makhadzi had taken to social media, complaining about the producer, podcaster and DJ, disrupting her performance. Oscar Mbo, whose […]

Sport Minister, Gayton McKenzie, says strides are being made on the implementation of the Video Assistance Referee (VAR) system in South Africa. Speaking to the public broadcaster last week, Mckenzie said the government was ready to put down a deposit and was working on garnering sponsors to fund the project. "We spoke specifically about VAR [with SAFA and PSL], we are now ready to move with VAR, we are going […]