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  Springbok lock, Eben Etzebeth, has been given the greenlight to face New Zealand in the Rugby Championship match in Johannesburg on Saturday after completing all the training sessions this week thus far. Etzebeth has been drafted onto the replacements bench in place of Marco van Staden and will provide lock cover for the starting combination of Pieter-Steph du Toit and Ruan Nortje. He was initially excluded from the Boks’ […]

Executive Director of the Helen Suzman Foundation, Nicole Fritz, says the appointment of Roman Cabanac to the Department of Agriculture is bewildering. Agriculture Minister and DA leader, John Steenhuisen, named the controversial podcaster as the chief of staff for his office. Cabanac gained notoriety over his problematic political statements and racial slurs on social media. Fritz says people appointed to such roles should not show contempt for the foundational values […]

  As the debate over the possible incorporation of documented migrants into the country's crime fighting agencies continues, one expert warns that this could pose a security risk for South Africa. Speaking to YNews, Professor Mary de Haas says law enforcement authorities should rather consider bringing locals into the force as they know their own communities better. Her remarks come days after a heated public discourse, with varied views, over […]

Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Monitor South Africa has urged survivors of GBV to seek assistance from organisations that deal with such issues like the Department of Social Development and shelters if they aren't getting help from the police. The organisation says far too often victims of abuse under report such incidents due to the police talking them out of opening cases. Tebogo Brown's experience is a case in point. The mother […]

The defence in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has introduced a new theory, suggesting that the gun used to kill the soccer star may have belonged to music producer, Chicco Twala. This speculation surfaced during the cross-examination of ballistic expert, Chris Mangena, in the Pretoria High Court. Opening the cross-examination, defence lawyer, Thulani Mngomezulu, raised suspicions about the police's decision to send Twala's firearm for analysis. He implied that it […]

Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen's appointment of controversial podcaster, Roman Cabanac, to his office has ruffled feathers. Steenhuisen has named Cabanac as his chief of staff. Various quarters of society have questioned the Minister's move and have slammed the Government of National Unity (GNU), saying it continues to slap South Africans in the face. While Cabanac seems to have cleared his X timeline, formerly known as Twitter, South Africans have […]

Veteran Springbok lock, Eben Etzebeth, is not completely ruled out of Saturday's Rugby Championship encounter against New Zealand at Ellis Park. This is despite him not making the matchday 23 named by coach Rassie Erasmus today. Yesterday, assistant coach, Deon Davids, told the media that Etzebeth was a doubt for the game with a knee niggle, especially due to the Boks' training policy that stipulates that if a player can’t […]

The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is set to resume this morning, with legal expert, Sheldon Magardie, predicting that the defence will target ballistic expert Chris Mangena's credibility during cross-examination. Magardie believes the defence will focus on poking holes into Mangena's testimony and his credibility as a witness. "Mangena's evidence is mostly of a factual and technical nature. If the defence has consulted their own witness, they most likely will cross-examine […]

Political analyst, Goodenough Mashego, says the ANC should come down harder on Joburg Mayor, Dada Morero, over his proposal that government hire foreign nationals to assist them in curbing crime. Mashego says the assertions show that there is no proper caucus within the party. "For him as a mayor for the biggest metro in the country to come out and say something that's contrary to what the provincial leadership is […]