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International relations expert, Professor John Stremlau says former US president Donald Trump will survive the attempted assassination as a 'Trump ticket' to garner votes. The former statesman and presidential candidate was reportedly shot in the ear while he was addressing his supporters during a campaign trail on Saturday. A 20-year-old man suspected to have been the assassin was later killed by secret service agents at the scene. Incumbent President Joe […]

The body corporate of Bangladesh Heights, near Pretoria, will be squaring off with the City of Tshwane in court over the cutting of water supply to residents. Speaking with YNews, City of Tshwane spokesperson, Lindela Mashigo, said owners of the complex owed the municipality roughly R11 million in unpaid water bills. On Friday, officials took a decision to shut down the water supply following what the city has described as […]

Education activist, Hendrick Makaneta, says scholar transport driver discovered drinking alcohol with learners failed to be a responsible adult. Makaneta was reacting to the video, which has been widely shared on social media showing learners from Dawnview, in Germiston, being ushered out of a Quantum, in which alcohol was also discovered. Speaking to YNews, Makaneta says such social ills need communities to work together.   Makaneta has also called on […]

Wimbledon Women's Wheelchair Doubles champion, Kgothatso Montjane, hopes that her latest victory will give South African wheelchair tennis a boost. Montjane arrived back home this morning to a warm welcome from her family, sponsors and the media after her and her double's partner, Yui Kamiji, won the final on Sunday beating the Dutch pair of Diede de Groot and Jiske Griffioen 6-4 6-4. A third Grand Slam title together for […]

                        The family of the late, Dorcas 'Didi' Lekganyane, has expressed her disappointment in the SAPS' alleged lack of efficient communication with them, saying the only update they have received with regards to Didi's case has only been through external people. The 32-year-old trailblazer was stabbed to death multiple times at her matrimonial home in Kew, Johannesburg, last week […]

Political commentator, Brooks Spector, says there is only two people that could probably get the Joe Biden to step down from office. Speaking to YNews, Spector says Jill Biden and Nancy Pelosi, a good friend of Biden, could be the people that can convince him to make that tough decision. This comes amid mounting calls for the US President to consider leaving the baton to someone else due to growing […]

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, […]

Shack dwellers' movement, Abahlali BaseMjondolo, say they feel vindicated by Wednesday's Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling on the city of Cape Town's land invasion case, which has upheld the right to dignity for the poor and marginalised who have long been subjected to unlawful evictions. The movement, which is among the seven responders in the matter, was weighing in on the ruling, which upheld a high court decision that […]

Convicted former VBS chairperson, Tshifhiwa Matodzi, has implicated EFF leaders Julius Malema and Floyd Shivambu in the damning looting scandal. In his tell-all affidavit, the former official details his first meeting with Malema, Shivambu and the party's secretary general Marshall Dlamini at the EFF's penthouse in Sandton in 2017. The meeting culminated in a R16 million gratuitous donation made to the leaders by VBS Mutual Bank. According to the close […]