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Akani Simbine will probably go into the Paris 2024 Olympic Games as the most under pressure South African athlete. Simbine has been South Africa's premier sprinter for the last decade but has failed to produce a medal for the country at a global stage and with him being 30 years old, the Paris games might be his final opportunity to deliver on the potential he's promised for years. Former SA […]

COVID-19 crimes are haunting unscrupulous government officials and their associates. In a case proving how futile criminal activities are, 22 senior officials who work for the Mpumalanga Public Works Department and their co-accused have lost assets and properties valued at R52.6 million to the state. The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the National Prosecuting Authority, the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), and the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) seized the […]

Sport Minister, Gayton McKenzie, is optimistic that Team South Africa will bring back plenty of gold medals from the 2024 Paris Olympics. The first batch of Team SA athletes left the country yesterday, with others scheduled to leave over the next couple of days. At the 2020 Olympics, Team SA only managed to bring back three medals, with the only gold coming from superstar swimmer, Tatjana Schoenmacher. This time McKenzie […]

The state is opposing the application for separate trials made by two of the accused in the VBS looting scandal, Kabelo Matsepe and Danny Msiza, who are represented by disgraced former NPA boss, Sean Abrahams, who has returned to private law practice. The state argues that separating the cases would undermine their prosecution, as the evidence relies on the fact that all 13 accused in the matter acted together. State […]

International relations expert, Professor John Stremlau, says Kamala Harris is the perfect candidate to usher in a 'new' America. The US vice president has been earmarked as the new Democrats leader, after President Joe Biden announced that he has decided to pull out of the Presidential race for the November 5 elections - saying it is in the best interest of his country and party. The 81-year-old Democrat has now […]

Political analyst and cultural expert, Professor Musa Xulu, has encouraged young people to not look at taking care of home and their communities as 'Black tax' but rather as a contribution. The cultural expert says taking care of where you come from is part of the African culture, heritage and tradition. His remarks come following a social media discourse over popular content creator, Sabelo Hadebe, also known as Sabelo the […]

  The President was responding to the furious debate on his Opening of Parliament Address. He says the name-calling and ethnic chauvinism seen during last week's debate is regrettable. Ramaphosa took a swipe at Malema, who had accused him of having been a sell-out during the liberation struggle. "You spent a considerable amount of time playing me, what is important in building this country is to play the ball of […]

  A mass IT outage caused chaos around the world to major companies, including banks, media (TV and radio stations), airports and airlines. According to reports, an update to an antivirus programme from a cybersecurity company affected Microsoft's cloud services updates, causing the system to crash. This is said to be one of the biggest IT crashes in recent years. Social media went on a frenzy with people from around […]

After weeks of silence, multi award winning hip-hop sensation Mthembeni Ndevu, popularly known as known Emtee, has clapped back at fellow rapper, Jesse Molley, known as J Molley, suggesting he is homeless and broke. On a viral live video on social media, the "Pearl Thusi" hitmaker drags the young rapper and says he isn't afraid to face him. pic.twitter.com/O5SGNGa5B4 — DaSlimebaby (@louiehndrx) July 18, 2024 The two musicians have been […]

Sport Minister, Gayton McKenzie, insists that 200m sprinter, Luxolo Adams, will go to the 2024 Paris Olympics. Adams was dropped from the South African team last week to make way for another athlete despite having met the criteria to qualify for the games. The Minister says he is still awaiting response from the leadership of Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), but is certain […]