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Former secretary-general of the MK Party, Floyd Shivambu, says forming a political party should not be a family project as he mulls over forming a new organisation. While Shivambu maintains that he remains a member of the MK Party, he says former president Jacob Zuma is surrounded by political scoundrels. In the highly anticipated media briefing this afternoon, the politician announced that he will over the next few months consult […]

Proteas captain, Temba Bavuma, was taken aback by the welcome they received at the OR Tambo International Airport when the team arrived back home after winning the World Test Championship title in London over the weekend. Bavuma and his charges received a hero's welcome. Sport Minister, Gayton McKenzie, and Cricket South Africa President, Rihan Richards, were among high ranking officials who also came out to congratulate the team. The WTC […]

Social justice organisation, Soul City Institute, has slammed some social media users for using HIV/Aids as a punchline. The organisation's communications officer Akona Zibonti's concern stems from a post of an X user, who suggested that Thabo Bester's lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, is probably HIV positive and not coping with prison food. Jail food is not for the weak.if you are HIV positive it will quickly kick in https://t.co/Dv9pskjTeM — […]

Self-proclaimed doctor, Matthew Lani, says he will be representing himself in his case against the Gauteng Department of Education for defamation. Lani first came into the spotlight after he pretended to be a medical doctor on social media, wearing scrubs while in hospital. He also ditched out medical advise to his TikTok followers and sold medication, which he said, after his arrest for impersonating a medical doctor, was herbal tea […]

Tyler Perry’s legal team has rejected the sexual assault charges filed against the filmmaker as a “shakedown". Fellow American actor and screenwriter, Derek Dixon, has launched a $260 million lawsuit against Perry. Perry's lawyer, Matthew Boyd, says Dixon is an individual who got close to the actor and playwright for what now appears to be nothing more than setting up a scam. Dixon says he met Perry at the opening party of […]

Disgraced RnB musician Robert Sylvester Kelly's lawyers have pinned the blame for his overdose on the prison authorities where he is incarcerated. Curtesy of TMZ on X , the jailed singer, songwriter, and record producer, who is affectionately known by the stage alias R Kelly, was rushed to the Duke University Hospital a few days after enduring a near fatal overdose while subjected to solitary confinement in prison allegedly against […]

The news of the imminent international retirement of Banyana Banyana veteran, Jermaine Seoposenwe, has sent shockwaves through the South African football fraternity. In a social media post on Monday night, the 2022 WAFCON winner wrote that it had become more evident that leaving the national team is the best decision for her well-being. She says the move has been on her mind for a while. The news comes just shortly […]

Political analyst, Bongani Mahlangu, says Floyd Shivambu should not consider returning to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The former deputy president of the EFF joined the MK Party in August last year, a move that surprised many and left his former comrades in the red berets unsettled. Mahlangu weighed in on the debate regarding Shivambu's next move as he finds himself in a precarious position within Jacob Zuma's organisation. This […]

A week after heavy rains claimed 90 lives and wreaked havoc in the Eastern Cape, humanitarian organisation, Gift of the Givers, says the situation in the province remains dire. Thousands of people have been displaced after their homes were flooded and infrastructure was damaged. Over 55 schools and 20 health care facilities were destroyed. The O.R. Tambo and Amathole District municipalities have been hardest hit. Gift of the Givers' spokesperson, […]

As the country marks one year since the formation of the Government of National Unity (GNU), political commentator, Goodenough Mashego, has criticised the alliance, saying it continues to treat the provision of critical services as an opportunity for cheap political point-scoring rather than genuine governance. In June last year, 10 political parties bandied together to form the GNU following a watershed general election that saw the ANC lose its outright […]