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Actor Dr Leleti Khumalo DOESN’T even know how to describe the feeling he has after Rhodes University honored him with a doctorate yesterday.Leleti said that she could not see anything more than becoming an actress and using her voice to fight against the evils that attack the country, including HIV/AIDS. She said that when she was growing up in KwaMashu, she was a girl who did not know that one day she would be honored by a big institution like this one.With these titles, he said he is grateful to the teachers, the founders of the games he has been…
March 26, 2026 Elisma van der Watt How would you like to share the article? Rand West City Munisipality. (Photo: ActionSA) This week, the FF Plus objected to a proposed salary increase of 4% for council members of the Rand West City municipality. Fred Steffers, a FF Plus board member, says this municipality simply cannot afford this increase. He believes that the money could have been much better spent on paying the municipality’s large overdue Eskom bill, rather than filling the pockets of councillors. Despite the FF Plus’ plea, the majority of the council nevertheless approved the increase. Rand West,…
Nomonde Zondi|Published 1 hour agoHe preferred that a man from Showe be sentenced, who did not go in to plead guilty to three murders of the same family.Sicelo Dambayi Sikhakhane (31) from Mtilombo, Showe, was sentenced to three life terms by the Durban High Court on Tuesday. This man is said to have shot and killed three members of the Mkhize family in April 2023.His sentence came after his case was intervened by the National Intervention Unit (NIU), since he was doing something unusual, calling the Showe station police and threatening them since he was in hiding. Sikhakhane is said…
John Steenhuizen. (Photo: Maroela Media) The South African Veterinary Association (SAVA) and the Ruminant Veterinary Association of South Africa (RuVASA) have condemned the government’s new draft vaccination plan against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and rejected a provision that requires veterinarians to obtain additional approval from the private company Red Meat Industry Services (RMIS) to participate in the national vaccination program. The organizations say the provision is not legally sustainable and will hinder the national response to the outbreak by creating unnecessary bureaucracy and serious legal risks. Dr. Ziyanda Qwalela, the president of SAVA, says the industry is facing a national crisis…
In South Africa, the country of France has withdrawn the invitation issued by the president for the country to join the G7 conference scheduled for June.According to the report of the SABC reporterSherwin Bryce-PeaseVincent Magwenya, the spokesperson for the president’s office said that the reason given is because of the ongoing pressure from the US, including threats to boycott the G7 summit. Therefore, they could not risk missing out on an important member of the G7, hence the withdrawal of the invitation to South Africa. French president Macron was the one who gave president Ramaphosa an invitation during the G20…
Kremlin spokesperson says talks are part of ‘necessary dialogue’ with Washington as war in Ukraine continues for a fifth year.Published On 26 Mar 202626 Mar 2026A delegation of Russian officials has arrived in the United States for meetings with their American counterparts.The visit, which began on Thursday, marks the first such trip since relations strained over Moscow’s war in Ukraine.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, “We hope that these first tentative steps will, of course, make their contribution to the further revival of our bilateral engagement.”He said President Vladimir Putin had set the “main…
Members of the Tshwane Metro Council shortly before Thursday’s council meeting. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Dr. Nasiphi Moya, the mayor of Tshwane, says she and her coalition government want to reduce the metro’s dependence on contracting services. “The Tshwane metro is going to cut its contracted services. We do not see value for money,” Moya announced at an early morning media conference on Thursday shortly before a council meeting. Thursday’s council meeting is the first council meeting in Tshwane since serious allegations of widespread tender fraud in the metro were made before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. The commission’s investigation…
Different leaders, including an activist for the conservation of things related to humanity, Phakelumthakathi, marched to destroy the immigrants who are in the country illegally, in Durban yesterday. These leaders were lured by the police who did not want them to go through the Point, where there are many immigrants Image: DOCTOR NGCOBO/Independent Media
Peter en Pamela Kantor. (Photo: Facebook) The husband of a Johannesburg woman who survived an incident when a bakkie from a private security company drove over her, describes the fact that she is alive as a “miracle that he will never fully understand”, but also one that wakes her up crying at night. Peter Kantor says his wife, Pamela, constantly relives that moment when she ended up under the vehicle. CCTV footage of the March 16 incident, timestamped at 09:39, has been widely shared on social media in recent times. Pamela was walking in the road when the reverse moving…
Metro FM has just announced a new line-up for 2026/27 featuring popular favorites joining the station. Nomuzi ‘Moozlie’ Mabena and Siyabonga ‘Scoop’ Ngwekazi, will co-host the weekend programme.The duo will host a new lifestyle show, Lift Off, which will air on Fridays between 7:00 and 10 pm, and Saturdays from 6 pm to 9 pm. Which promises to be a program that will keep Mzansi on its feet on Saturday nights.Scoop, who hosted the show at the Metro FM Awards last year alongside Luthando ‘Lootlove’ Shosha, is not new to entertainment, as some will remember him on the show Forever…