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The Pakistan shop owner, whose video of him allegedly threatening police and immigration officers caused an uproar on social media, has rejected the claims levelled against him. In a meeting with the Joburg MMC for Public Safety, Mgcini Tshwaku, the man claims he was actually speaking to a man who has been harassing the shop owners in Fordsburg for protection money. [Watch the video in question] There’s no country in […]

Banyana Banyana bowed out of the COSAFA Women’s Championship despite beating Eswatini 3-0 at Dobsonville Stadium on Tuesday afternoon. Coach Desiree Ellis’ charges went into the game with nothing but pride to play for after results from other Group B matches went against them. Zambia and Mozambique both won their matches, ensuring that the former finished top of their group while the Mozambicans claimed the other spot as second-best finishers. […]

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says it has received some complaints over the brewing racial tensions at the University of Pretoria. The commission's acting Gauteng manager, Zamantungwa Mbeki, says these complaints are in the process of being investigated. Earlier this week, members of the AfriForum Youth pasted "No Whites Allowed and Blacks Only" stickers at the entrances of the Hatfield campus, saying this was in retaliation to the […]

Emotions ran high outside the US Consulate yesterday as Palestine and Israeli supporters came face to face. Hundreds of people gathered outside the US Consulate, demanding an end to the Israeli Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. The US is a staunch ally of Israel and the demonstrators want the country to condemn the war against Hamas. They also want Washington to put pressure on Israel to stop its […]

The Bloemfontein Magistrates' Court has withdrawn charges against Nastassja Jansen, Thabang Mier and Moeketsi Ramolula. The trio was among the 12 linked to the daring escape of Facebook rapist and murderer, Thabo Bester. This leaves a total number of people in the dock for one of South Africa's greatest escapes to nine. Bester's lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, and her father Zolile Sekeleni are among the remaining suspects. Jansen, Mier and […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the latest census report as credible and of the highest integrity, despite a 31% undercount rate. The President was reacting to the release of the data by Statistics South Africa. According to the figures, South Africa's population now sits at 62 million, an increase from the 51.8 million in 2011. The Census 2022, however, registered a 31% undercount rate, meaning about a third of people […]

South Africa's Director of Rugby, Rassie Erasmus, has expressed relief over the news that the Springboks will be able to fly their flag in this weekend's Rugby World Cup quarter-final clash against host nation, France, in Paris. Yesterday, Sports Minister Zizi Kodwa said they had lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decision to ban the team and the Proteas […]

The Pretoria High Court has heard how accused number two, Bongani Ntanzi, was not at work the day Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down. Ntanzi is one of five men currently on trial for Meyiwa’s 2014 murder. Hendrick Mulder, an HR Manager at Sibanye Gold Mine, took to the stand today - revealing that the accused was fired from the mine in 2016 after failing to show up for an extended […]

The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) is calling on South Africans to get to a point where conversations around mental health are not had in secret. According to SADAG, in South Africa one in three people will or does suffer from a mental illness at some point in their lives.  SADAG Operations Director, Cassey Chambers, says once these conversations are had more openly, the more people will become […]

  The leadership of Al Jama-ah in Gauteng notes the current developments in in the Middle East and the Gaza strip and note that the some political parties in South Africa consider this to be "terror in Israel." Such a reading of the events in Israel shows a deliberate reluctance to stand with the oppressed people of Palestine. For decades the people of Palestine had had to endure of oppression […]