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The Home Affairs Department has served Chidimma Adetshina's mother with a Promotion of Administrative Justice Act Letter. The letter affords the person a chance to tell their side of the story before any decision is taken. It also seeks to protect the public from unlawful, unreasonable and procedurally unfair administrative decisions. This comes as the probe into the former Miss SA contestant's ethnicity continues. The government has now decided to […]

The Pretoria High Court has reserved judgment in former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s R10 million gratuity case. The High Court in Pretoria has heard arguments that the impeached Public Protector was not entitled to a end of services gratuity as she was removed from office and did not vacate the position as required by the Public Protector Act. Mkhwebane returned to court today in a bid to challenge the incumbent […]

Political analyst, Goodenough Mashego, has slammed Julius Malema's rant as a poor attempt to make it seem as though he has his house in order. The EFF leader ascended the podium at the party's Ground Forces Forum at the Orlando Community Hall in Soweto last night to spit fire and throw jabs at his former deputy president and party members. Floyd Shivambu's departure from the EFF to join the MK Party […]

The Department of Home Affairs has put to rest rumours that a probe into identity theft allegations against Chidimma Adetshina's mother has been dropped. The hearsay had been sparked by a television interview of the president of Miss Universe Nigeria, Guy Murray-Bruce, who claimed that the 23-year-old former Miss SA contestant who is now vying for the Nigerian crown, also told him that she and her mother are South African. […]

Amid kidnapping-accused Pastor Paseka 'Mboro' Motsoeneng's bail application on Friday, it emerged that his grandsons have gone missing. The boys, at the centre of a messy custody battle between their feuding families, were last seen on the 7th of this month. Mboro, his son, and bodyguard face kidnapping, intimidation, and trespassing charges for forcibly removing the boys from their primary school at gunpoint. Angry school children and community members later […]

Australia captain, Allan Alaalatoa, says they will be better equipped to handle the physicality of the Springboks on Saturday when the teams clash in the second Rugby Championship Test in Perth. The Wallabies were thrashed 33-7 last week in Brisbane and left shell-shocked by the world champions. It was a huge reality check for Australia who had won three straight matches against Wales and Georgia to kick-start new coach Joe […]

Calls for justice and reparations for the families of the miners who were mowed down by the police on this day - 12 years ago - continue to reverberate across the country. In a joint statement, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri) and Amnesty International South Africa lament the seemingly blunt blade of justice as South Africans commemorate the massacre that shook the country, with some accusing government […]

Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande, who are linked to the killing of Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes and Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane, will be extradited from Eswatini. Earlier today, the Manzini Magistrates' Court granted South Africa's request for the two accused to join the five in custody in Durban. Magistrate David Khumalo says the evidence, including cellphones, tracker reports and video footage presented by the applicants, constitutes enough grounds to extradite the pair. The […]

Teddy Bear Foundation's Shaheda Omar says parents should pay careful attention to their children, who attend day care centres and schools, to avoid missing red flags of the facilities which their children are enrolled in. Omar believes that when enough attention is afforded to kids, signs always reveal themselves of whether a child is entrusted to the right hands. “Check in on the child in the morning and remind them […]

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) says being a teacher in South Africa is becoming dangerous, with educators not knowing whether they will go back home alive. Speaking to YNews, Sadtu's Xolani Fakude says even aspirant teachers are now losing interest in the profession due to fear. His assertions come hot on the heels of several incidents, including the recent stabbing of a learner by his peer at an Eldorado […]