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  As part of the Heritage Month celebrations in South Africa, which among others honours the memory of some of the country’s struggle icons, Professor of African politics at UNISA, Kealeboga Maphunye, is urging young people to familiarise themselves with what the Black Consciousness Movement leader, Steve Biko, stood for. Lamenting the muted celebration of the anti-apartheid activist’s legacy, Professor Maphunye says Biko's principles live on and are needed to […]

Veteran Economist, Dawie Roodt, says the latest Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) figures suggest that the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) will likely keep interest rates unchanged when its Monitoring Policy Committee meets today. Statistics SA has announced that CPI increased from 4.7% in July to 4.8% in August. This is after four consecutive months of decline. The data agency says the monthly change in CPI was 0.3% in August, down […]

That there are two sides to a story is one thing, but assertions that there are two sides to truth do not follow to be convincing. And whether headlines to a story are good or bad is an area sub-editors are gifted with to enjoy the right of way to pass. Headlines may be unhelpful, but indicative of license the media world has gifted sub-editors with to wield. Truth though […]

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has been vindicated after a court ruled in his favour over untested rape allegations. The EFF MP had taken the Daily Sun newspaper to court over its 2021 report that alleged he had raped someone. The publication has been ordered to apologies and remove the statements from all its platforms within seven days. It was established in court that the Daily […]

September 12, 1977, holds profound lessons of struggle through a thinker, a struggle icon, a human philosopher and realist who was brutally murdered 46 years ago. It brings closer the privilege and the presence of mind of having been in the same space, four decades ago, of a man who when he learnt that Steve Bantu Biko took his last breath of life on that day, dropped everything where he […]

The Commission for Gender Equality says for true gender transformation to be realised, institutions of higher learning must first acknowledge where they are failing. The commission kicked off its two-day investigative hearings into gender transformation at institutions of higher learning in Kempton Park yesterday. Administrators at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) and Sefako Makgatho Health Science University were the first to come under fire. This after presenting what the commission deemed […]

Springbok coach, Jacques Nienaber, made 13 personnel changes and a positional switch as well naming a seven-one split in favour of the forwards on the replacements’ bench for Saturday’s third Rugby World Cup pool encounter against Ireland. Nine players, who sat out Sunday’s 76-0 win over Romania, return to the starting line-up - while four others move from the bench to the starting 15 for another pivotal encounter in the […]

Former Miss South Africa and businesswoman, Basetsana and her husband Romeo Kumalo, have won their defamation case against author, Jackie Phamotse. The couple's court battle had begun five years ago over a tweet. In that 2018 post, Phamotse alleged that there was a sex tape involving the Kumalos and a young male rapper. The tweet read: “Just overheard a painful conversation, a female TV mogul pleading with one of my […]

The South African Municipal Workers’ Union, SAMWU, says it is hopeful that a resolution will be reached over the salary increases for municipal workers - with the City of Tshwane. Workers affiliated to SAMWU have been striking for about two months now over the city's decision to not give wage hikes this financial year. More than 120 employees have been dismissed, so far, for embarking on the strike, and about […]

The family of slain, Oupa 'Dj Sumbody' Sefoka, has secured a 50% ownership stake in Ayepyep Lifestyle Cape Town. The luxury entertainment establishment in the mother city will re-open its doors on Friday. This after Dj Sumbody's business partner, Kagiso Setsetse, sold his 50% stake in the business to the Sefoka family. The lifestyle owner was murdered in Woodmead in November last year, together with his driver while on their […]