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There's just one day before the 2023 ICC ODI Cricket World Cup gets underway in India and a majority of South Africans are at the risk of missing out on the action. Once again sports broadcasting rights and licensing disagreements have resurfaced between the public broadcaster, SABC and pay-channel MultiChoice. The two parties have failed to reach a sub-licensing agreement. Local cricket fans look set to suffer from the latest […]

Zane Sekhwela says the claims that he is convicted murderer, Sandile Mantsoe, have put his family in danger. Images of the qualified accountant who currently lives in Tzaneen, Limpopo, have been making the rounds on social media - with many mistaking his identity for Mantsoe. Some took to X, formerly known as Twitter, saying they've seen Sekhwela walking the streets of Braamfontein in Johannesburg. Mantsoe was sentenced to 32 years behind […]

The National Association of School Governing Bodies (Nasgb) has pleaded with metro police to do random searches and make sure street vendors are selling safe food to learners. The organisation is also advocating for the vetting of the vendors. Its call follows the hospitalisation of 90 Soshanguve pupils after eating drug-laced muffins allegedly sold to them by street vendors last month. Amukelani Nyalunga (19),  Ofentse Maluleka (21), and Katlego Matlala […]

Social activist, Kekeletso Khena, says children must be protected from pedophiles, who she believes are all adult men who sleep with minors. Khena has launched a petition calling on the Department of Health to introduce a policy that forces doctors to report cases of minors falling pregnant to the police. In its 2019/2020 report, Stats SA revealed that KZN recorded the highest number of child pregnancies, followed by Limpopo and […]

Members of the taxi industry on Tuesday afternoon shutdown the Mabopane Freeway in Tshwane following a spate of attacks on motorists. They say the R80 highway has become a haven for brazen criminality and have called on law enforcement to take urgent action against the scourge. Police had their hands full, trying to disperse the demonstrators, who included paramedics. The group says it's been the target of thugs, who pelt […]

Parliament's Joint committee on Ethics and Members' Interests has found Police Minister, Bheki Cele, breached the ethical code of conduct for yelling at Action Society's Ian Cameron. In the engagement, which made the rounds on social media, the Minister can be heard shouting "shut up" at Cameron while addressing a SAPS Imbizo in Gugulethu last year. The Joint Committee has recommended that the Minister issue an apology to Cameron. [WATCH] […]

Parliament's Ethics Committee has found EFF Deputy President, Floyd Shivambu, guilty of violating its Ethics Code of Conduct. The committee found Shivambu failed to declare R180 000 he received from his brother's company Sgameka Projects, which was engulfed in the VBS bank scandal.The company allegedly received R16 million from the now defunct VBS bank.The VBS scandal rocked South Africans in 2018 when almost R2 billion was stolen by the bank’s […]

Lukhanyo Am, a member of the Springboks’ 2019 Rugby World Cup winning team, has been called into the 2023 squad as an injury replacement for wing Makazole Mapimpi who suffered a fractured cheekbone in Sunday’s 49-18 victory over Tonga. Mapimpi is expected to be out of action for four to six weeks. Am will join the squad in Toulon this week, having returned to training on his rehabilitation from a […]

The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in KwaZulu-Natal says it has launched its own investigation into the violent assault of disabled boy by security officers at Ladysmith provincial hospital. This after a video of the two men assaulting the boy in his hospital bed went viral on social media, causing massive outrage. The security officials involved in the scandal have now been fired, while the nurses who […]

A third suspects has been arrested in connection with the recent drugging of 90 learners in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria. The learners from Pulamadibogo Primary School were hospitalised last week after consuming drug-laced muffins they allegedly bought from the suspects.The three men appeared briefly before the Soshanguve Magistrates Court this afternoon. Katlego Matlala (29), Ofentse Maluleka (21) and Amukelani Nyalunga (19) face nine counts of attempted murder. Gauteng Education MEC, […]