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  Social media users have expressed mixed views to media personality Khanyi Mbau's 'new face'. Mbau has sent shocks waves all over the internet, where she speaks about being tired of botox and fillers after every three months. In an Instagram post, Mbau says she went under the knife to modify her facial features to achieve a tight look. Mbau revealed that she underwent a procedure to remove excess skin […]

Members of the Eldorado Park SGB Forum have threatened to shut down all schools in the community unless Gauteng Education MEC, Matome Chiloane, meets with residents. They've given the MEC until Friday to respond to their demands. The forum was established earlier this week by teachers, parents, and residents in response to escalating school violence across the community. In one of the latest incidents, two armed suspects entered a high […]

The brutal killing of two women, Kudzai Ndlovu and Maria Makgatho allegedly by white farmers in Limpopo before feeding them to pigs, has sent shockwaves and sparked debate about the impact of the residue of apartheid. The husband to one of the women fled the scene and survived the shooting. It is alleged that the trio had visited the farm, looking for expired food to harvest when they were met […]

  Defence lawyer, Thulani Mngomezulu, made the assertion during the cross-examination of ballistic expert, Chris Mangena. Mangena, who first testified in August last year, is back on the witness stand after delays caused by a dispute over who should pay for the defence's ballistics expert, who will challenge his testimony.  According to Mangena's expert testimony, two bullets extracted from the murder scene indicated that only two shots were fired that […]

"We are still unemployed and in need of job opportunities," cried out the young people of Soweto, Johannesburg, during their march earlier today. They marched to Joburg Mayor Dada Morero's office in Braamfontein following his now retracted suggestion that foreign nationals be hired as JMPD officers to help clamp down on criminality. The young people say Morero's suggestion is a proof that there are jobs available in the city. They […]

  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 […]