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Public Protector, Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka's office is unfazed by the Pretoria High Court order regarding her matter involving her predecessor, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane. The two are at loggerheads over Mkhwebane's bid to get her R10 million gratuity. Yesterday, Judge Colleen Collis found that Gcaleka might have made inaccurate allegations in her affidavit submitted in court in response to Mkhwebane's demands. The judge gave the Public Protector until the end of […]

Fraud accused, Fidelis Moema (32), and two of his co-accused have been granted R50 000 bail.    The trio appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court today.   They face charges of fraud and money laundering.   Moema, who is known for his flashy lifestyle and spoiling his girlfriend, Sthe Bhengu made headlines after he allegedly looted bursary funds to the tune of R16.5 million at KPMG.   […]

Non-profit organisation, Women and Men Against Child Abuse, has slammed the snail's pace in which the case of a police officer who allegedly raped two children is moving. The implicated officer allegedly raped the learners, who were aged 7 and 8 years respectively at the time, while he was investigating the minors' rape by Johannes Molefe, a former general worker at AB Xuma Primary School in Soweto. The incidents allegedly […]

Begging to differ with illustrious journo Hopewell Chin’ono on Jacob Zuma's motives. Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono’s prominent take on former president Jacob Zuma is both bravely inspiring and yet misses the boat by mile on his reading of the man behind the effervescent start of the MK party by suggesting his eyes are set on the trophy of becoming KZN Premier position. Of significance, Chin’ono entry into the fray is inspiring […]

Springbok captain and back-to-back Rugby World Cup winner, Siya Kolisi, has been named as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2024. In 2023, Kolisi led the Boks to a record fourth Rugby World Cup title, with the team becoming only the second one to retain the trophy after winning the title in 2019, following the All Blacks who won back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2015. The list […]

The Helen Suzman Foundation is calling on Parliament not to adopt the White Paper on the Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection into law. The foundation's call comes after the contentious White Paper, which it has on numerous occasions opposed, was signed in the government gazette yesterday. It aims to overhaul regulations on granting citizenship, immigration and refugee protection. It also gives government the go-ahead to review or withdraw from the […]

Soul City Institute for Social Justice CEO, Phinah Kodisang, says South Africans need to tackle head on the blesser phenomenon, which became prominent in South Africa around 2016. Kodisang says such relationships, which sometimes occur between minors and older men, are breeding a generation of traumatised young people. "If we don't address these issues, we are failing the young people who are being taken advantage of by the predators. We […]

Newly registered political party, Operation Dudula, wants the upcoming general elections to be postponed. This is as the party forges ahead with its plans to approach the Constitutional Court in its bid to make it onto the ballot paper. Dudula was excluded from the national ballot after it missed the deadline for the submission of candidate lists. An issue that they are blaming the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for. The […]

One of South Africa's oldest and most loved movie exhibitor, Ster-Kinekor, is set to close nine of its cinemas in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Western Cape, in a move that will leave more than 200 of its employees without means to put bread on the table. The devastating news comes just two years after the Ster-Kinekor exited business rescue following the devastating 2021 COVID-19 pandemic, which crippled businesses, among others. […]

AbaThembu King, Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, has provided a lifeline for the students at King Sabata Dalindyebo TVET College students by donating a cow. The cow was slaughtered to feed the hungry students, who have gone months without proper meals in the wake of the ongoing NSFAS woes. Destitute students at the college say they have not received meal allowances from NSFAS in the past three months, forcing them to study and […]