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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 […]

Sport Minister, Zizi Kodwa, has welcomed the Pretoria High Court's ruling, which dismissed - with costs - the National Professional Boxing Promoter's Association's (NPBPA) application for the court to declare the appointment of the Boxing SA Accounting Authority as irregular and invalid. The Minister’s spokesperson, Litha Mpondwana, says the next step is a move to restore stability and ethical governance at Boxing SA. “The judgment marks a salutary corrective measure […]

  Gauteng Education MEC has revealed that school excursion that saw the drowning of two Daveyton boys was not authorised by the department. Chiloane spoke at a briefing at the Benoni school earlier today. He says the school did not inform the district or the department about the trip. Two learners have been identified as Siphamandla Peterson (15) and Sibusiso Sibiya (17). They tragically lost their lives during a discipline […]

Civil Rights Movement, Put South Africa First, has slammed government's silence and failure to eradicate drug trafficking in the country. The movement says government's inaction leaves one to wonder whether high-ranking officials are not involved with drug lords who run the streets in local communities. Put South Africa First's remarks come as yet another host of the drug-busting show, 'Sizok'thola' on Moja Love, Xolani Maphanga has found himself on the […]

Education activist, Hendrick Makaneta, has called on government to strengthen its hand of support to schools and teachers amid concerns over deaths of learners during school trips and within the premises of the educational institutions. In the latest incident, two boys from Daveyton Skills School in Benoni drowned on Monday, while attending a school discipline camp in Tshwane. The boys, aged 13 and 16, were due to return home to […]

Organisers of the Beijing half marathon are investigating allegations that three African athletes deliberately allowed China's star runner, He Jie, to win Sunday's race. Footage appeared to show Kenya's Robert Keter and Willy Mnangat and Ethiopia's Dejene Hailu pointing to the line and slowing down before waving past He. Mnangat has confessed to the race fixing. He says they were contracted to help He break the Chinese half-marathon record of […]