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Concerned Tembisa residents, in Ekurhuleni, are demanding accountability for the neglect of schools in the area. Their call follows the injury of 18 learners from Umthambeka Primary School after a ceiling collapsed on them on Tuesday. It’s understood two of the children were rushed to hospital, while the rest are recovering at home. The furious and frustrated residents say someone must be brought to book for shoddy maintenance at local […]

Jenny Van Dyk has been confirmed as the new senior coach of the senior women's national netball team. The SPAR Proteas had been without a head coach since Norma Plummer stepped down in December and Netball South Africa had advertised the position before the Australian mentor left this role in 2023. The organisation says Van Dyk's appointment follows a meticulous process of reviewing applications and conducting rounds of interviews. “This […]

Classes resume this morning at the North West University's Vaal campus following disruptions earlier this week. Students clashed with the police on Tuesday during a protest over student allowances. Two of the students were bumped down by a car, which was being driven by their white peer - leading suspicions that it was a racially-motivated incident. The university has, however, dismissed those claims saying the student knocked down the students […]

The father of slain rapper Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, Tony Forbes, says seeing the faces of his son's alleged killers was a defining moment for him. Five of the seven men arrested in connection with AKA and Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane's murder appeared at the Durban Magistrates' Court today. The matter was postponed to next week Wednesday for bail proceedings. The hip hop sensation and his chef friend were gunned down on […]

  Students around Braamfontein, in Johannesburg, say they feel unsafe as crime is getting out of hand in the area. This afternoon, three people, including a student, were shot dead following an ambush at Jorissen Street. Taxi violence is suspected to be behind the attack. According to the police, unknown suspects opened fire on two men, who were sitting inside a parked BMW sedan. Two students were allegedly caught in […]

South African authors, readers, and stakeholders in the book industry have written to the National Assembly imploring them to protect the creatives by rejecting the Copyright Amendment Bill should it be put to vote today. Concurrence on the bill by the country’s lawmakers is scheduled for this afternoon. The authors say the bill’s proposed hybrid model of copyright exceptions goes too far and threatens to weaken copyright protection. They say […]

Five of the seven people arrested for the murder of one of Mzansi's beloved Hip-Hop rapper, Kiernan 'AKA' Forbes, and his friend, chef and entrepreneur, Tebello 'Tibz' Motsoane, will appear before the Durban Magistrate’s Court today. Six of the suspects were arrested over a six-month period while the seventh accused was nabbed yesterday. Two of them are yet to be extradited from eSwatini, where had been hiding at the time […]

Young women in South Korea are putting themselves first and say they can rather delay having children or not have them at all because they want to further their careers. The country's fertility rate, which is already the world's lowest, continued its dramatic decline in December 2023. Cultural factors such as the difficulty working mothers have juggling their jobs, with the expectation that they are mainly responsible for household chores […]

A decision in the rape and murder case against Sifiso Mkhwanazi has been set down for the 13th of next month. The 21-year-old is accused of raping and killing six sex workers whose decomposing bodies were found at his father's panel beating shop in Johannesburg in 2022. Closing arguments in the trial wrapped up yesterday. The defense questioned the motive behind Mkhwanazi's father's decision to testify against his son. It […]

Political analyst, Professor Sam Koma, says the nomination of Justice Mandisa Maya as the next Chief Justice marks a turning point for the country's judiciary. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the nomination yesterday. The Deputy Chief Justice will become the first female to occupy the top judicial position not just in South Africa, but the entire continent. Maya will assume office on the 1st of September after Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's […]