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Tech expert, Arthur Goldstuck, has rubbished the US House of Representatives' attempts to ban TikTok as politicking ahead of the November elections. Goldstuck says this decision is a reflection of geo-political tensions between the US and China. The US House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that gives the social media giant's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake or have the app blocked in the […]

Former president, Thabo Mbeki, took a swipe at his successor Jacob Zuma, saying his newly-formed party is led by people who tried to destroy the South African Revenue Service (SARS). "You destroy SARS, you destroy the democratic state. And yet there were people who made a decision to do exactly that." Mbeki made the remarks at a student lecture on socio political issues at Unisa yesterday. The MK Party gained […]

The confessions of two of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case will be admitted as evidence in the main trial. Pretoria High Court Judge, Ratha Mokgotheng, handed down the ruling this morning. Judge Mokgoathleng emphasised that he had made careful analysis of both the state and the defenses’ arguments and said he found that both Muzi Sibiya and Bongani Ntanzi’s confessions had been made freely and voluntarily, while […]

Al Jamah-ah leader, Ganief Hendricks, says the South African society needs to be transformed and for the concept of fatherhood to be practiced by all South Africans irrespective of their religion. Fatherhood, as Hendricks describes it, is a concept that calls for men in the immediate and extended families to take financial responsibility for the women in their lives. This concept, which he says comes from the Islamic faith, is […]

The Pretoria High Court will today rule on the admissibility of confession statements made by two of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial. Lawyers for Muzi Sibiya and Bongani Ntanzi have argued that the confessions were coerced and the court should throw them out. Closing arguments in the trail within a trial came to an end in the Pretoria High Court on Monday afternoon. The trial-within-a-trial has been […]

This month will see School Governing Body (SGB) elections held at public schools throughout the country. Every public school is required to have a SGB in place made up of elected members including parents, guardians, teachers, school staff and learners, the principal and co-opted members. SGBs are responsible for the governance of the school and represent parental authority. They act as the guardians and gatekeepers as well as set the […]

At the back of sex-worker killer Sifiso Mkhwanazi’s guilty verdict, activists and and NGOs once again say they’re skeptical that he was acting alone. The Johannesburg High Court yesterday found Mkhwanazi guilty of the rape and murder of six sex workers. The accused was arrested in October 2022 after the women’s decomposing bodies were found at his father’s panel beating workshop in the Johannesburg inner-city. He’s been found guilty of […]

Tensions flared outside the Vrendenburg Magistrates Court on Tuesday, where the accused in the Joslin Smith disappearance case were appearing. The six-year-old's mother, her lover and two other co-accused made their second appearance facing charges of kidnapping and human trafficking. Charges against accused number four, Phumza Sigaqa, were withdrawn due to insufficient evidence. However, according to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), she could be charged in future should investigations find […]