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Family, friends and industry colleagues gathered to remember the late DJ Mulo at the SABC studios in Auckland Park. The former Y DJ, Nhlamulo Hlungwani, passed away peacefully at his Bryanston home on Saturday after battling cancer. The 38-year-old was diagnosed with cancer in October 2022. He leaves behind his wife Ntokozo and their little son. DJ Mulo, together with another former Y talent, Dineo Ranaka, hosted E.tv’s MVP Jam, […]
American entertainment companies, Marvel Studios and Walt Disney, have dropped Emmy-nominated actor, Jonathan Majors, following his gender-based violence conviction. A New York jury has found Majors guilty on two of the four charges relating to the assault of his former girlfriend, Grace Jabbari. The 34-year-old will be sentenced in February and faces up to a year in prison. The conviction comes nine months after he was charged for attacking Jabbari. […]
A Democratic Alliance (DA) councillor in KwaZulu-Natal accused of having killed his family will remain in police custody until his next appearance on Thursday. Michael Buthelezi appeared in the Bergville Magistrates Court following his arrest yesterday. KZN police nabbed Buthelezi in Ladysmith, three months after his wife, their two daughters, and a son died when their house in Bergville caught fire. The councillor sustained severe burn wounds in the October […]
Police are investigating the gruesome killing of a Grade 7 pupil in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria. The pupil from from Echibini Junior Secondary School was raped and strangled to death on Sunday night. It is alleged that the perpetrator broke into the pupil's home, while the learner's family was sleeping and attacked her. According to the department, the pupil's parents were sleeping in a separate room when the incident took […]
Former Y alumni have paid tribute to the late DJ Nhlamulo Hlungwani, popularly known as DJ Mulo, describing him as a legend due to his work ethic and passion. DJ Mulo passed away at the weekend after a long battle with cancer. Some industry colleagues and friends, including Sizwe Dhlomo, have praised him for having fought a good fight. One of Y's longest serving personalities Moleke Sekukuni, popularly known […]
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel will continue to fight until he eliminates Hamas, frees all hostages and ensure that Gaza will never again become "a centre for terrorism." His utterances come as international pressure mounts with calls for a pause in the fighting and to do more to protect the lives of civilians. World powers have called on Israel to halt the bombing of the Gaza Strip and […]
Bafana Bafana coach, Hugo Broos, has shown his hand as he announced his preliminary squad for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Côte d’Ivoire. The Belgian mentor announced a 50-man preliminary squad that will be trimmed to 23 players in the beginning of the new year shortly before departure to the West African country. The 34th edition of the biennial continental tournament will be held in the Ivory Coast […]
As black South African citizens, especially AmaZulu, we have been sold a lie. A united, non-racial, equal, human rights-oriented and prosperous South African society is simply unattainable given the gross levels of hypocrisy and corruption in this country. In his book “Pedagogy of the Oppressed”, Paulo Frere says:“The oppressors do not favour promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. Without a sense of identity, there can be […]
When attention was directed to the DA’s Helen Zille’s wooing of Agang’s Mamphela Ramphele to be DA’s electoral candidate, I wrote on February 3, 2014: “A voter staying in a shack and another in a suburb is a yawning reality separating the privileged from the unprivileged. To make separation redundant, equality is the route to go.” [Sunday World: Never Say Never in Politics] The curiosity behind this in 2014 was […]
Former ANC anti-apartheid activist and ARETA leader, Carl Niehaus, has joined the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). Niehaus joins Julius Malema's party ahead of the 2024 national elections. This comes 10 months after he formed his own political party, African Radical Economic Transformation Alliance (ARETA), shortly after leaving the ANC. Niehaus says his move is in line with their goal to re-shape the political landscape in South Africa. He says the […]
