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UFC Middleweight World Champion, Dricus du Plessis, says his world title victory is the first of many and is only the beginning of the Dricus du Plessis era. Dricus, who is the first South African to win a UFC world title, landed back in South Africa earlier today after winning against Sean Strickland in Canada on Sunday. The 30-year-old claimed the win by a point in the bout that […]
Legal analyst, Mpumelelo Zikalala, says the police and the NPA have their work cut out in building a strong case against the man who has confessed to have torched the Marshalltown building, in which more than 70 people perished last year. On Tuesday, an unnamed 29-year-old man was arrested after he confessed to the Commission of Inquiry that probing the cause of the inferno at the hijacked and rundown Usindiso […]
Bafana Bafana have advanced to the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations after playing out to a goalless draw against Tunisia last evening. Both sides played to the best of their abilities, but failed to produce any goals. Bafana coach, Hugo Broos, had kept the same team that won against Namibia on Sunday. Lead us coach Hugo Broos! 🇿🇦✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/yRoG8WFhJ9 — STAR. (@makwande_m) January 24, 2024 The national […]
South Africans will be waiting with bated breath as Bafana Bafana will take on Tunisia this evening, hoping to make it to the last 16. The national team, lying second behind Mali, need a point at least to ensure their stay in the tournament. They must avoid defeat at all costs. Bafana are and need a solitary point to ensure that they live to play another match in the tournament. […]
A storm is brewing between the parents of home-schooled matriculants and private assessment body, the South African Comprehensive Assessment Institute (SACAI). The irate parents are accusing the body of irregularities within the marking and capturing process of the recent matric results. YNews has been reliably told that some learners who had been getting 70% in the Math assessment dropped as low as 17% in some cases in their final 2023 […]
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As South Africans remain perplexed and shocked over why renowned economist, Thabi Leoka, would have misrepresented her qualifications, one brand expert believes she should just come clean if she doesn't have the contentious PhD. Thebe Ikalafeng has, however, praised the embattled economist for resigning from the MTN and Anglo-American Platinum boards, respectively, saying this will shift negative attention from both firms to Leoka. Leoka stepped down from the boards amid […]
The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) is urging matriculants, who will be looking to their studies in 2024, to be vigilant of bogus nursing colleges. Last week, the Basic Education Department announced that 82.9% of the grade 12 class of 2023 had passed their national senior certificate exams, showing a 2.8 percentage point increase in the pass rate. Denosa says students, who will be looking for institutions of […]
The son of Ntshingo Matabane, who was one of the four anti-apartheid activists known as the COSAS 4, Tshepo Mokgatle, says while the prosecution of a former apartheid security branch member and a former askari, who brutally murdered his father, is a welcome relief - the case is also overwhelming. He was reacting to yet another postponement of the historic case against former explosive expert of the apartheid security branch, […]
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) says yesterday's deadly fire in the Johannesburg inner-city is a reminder for the metro to address its housing crisis.At least two people died and four others were injured when the building on the corner of Commissioner and Nugget streets was gutted by the inferno.A 30-year-old woman, who is alleged to have started the fire following a domestic dispute, faces murder charges […]
