Author: staff
While poor students and those from the “missing middle” battle annually to get funding, the Department of Higher Education and its 26 entities spent R285.2 million on meetings and functions at fancy hotels and conference centres over the past six years.
Diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg’s estate has been provisionally sequestrated after a court found he owed millions in gambling debts. His lawyers claimed hidden assets were stashed under trees in the Northern Cape, which the judge dismissed.
An Eastern Cape father, who has been charged with almost 800 counts ranging from possession and distribution of child pornography to the rape of his biological daughter, placed the blame squarely at the feet of his stepson, whom he claims is the “prince of darkness” who raped his minor daughter.
There is growing speculation in the MK Party’s corridors that former president Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, has joined his father’s party while the presence of his own party, the All Game Changers, has dwindled on the ground and on social and traditional media.
Arnold Terblanche, the alleged mastermind behind his estranged wife, Vicki Terblanche’s murder, will only face the music at the end of the year after his trial was postponed to October 2025 in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha on Friday.
A group of concerned parents of pupils who attend the Solomon Qatyana Primary School in Strand, Cape Town, took to the streets this week to demand the Western Cape Education Department deliver on its promise they said it made to build a new school before the start of the 2025 academic year.
“What has Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma’s daughter done?” This was the question former president Jacob Zuma asked MK Party supporters after his daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on terrorism-related charges.
From amputation of a right leg to head, eye and shrapnel injuries – 18 South African National Defence (SANDF) soldiers were wounded while fighting a full-scale attack by the M23 rebel group in Sake, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week.
Western Cape police commissioner Thembisile Patekile has agreed to meet with opposition parties following their request to address allegations of political interference in the investigation that led to a raid on the offices of mayoral committee members JP Smith and Xanthea Limberg.
Former president Thabo Mbeki says that for as long as the Democratic Republic of Congo refuses to look after the Rwandan-speaking Congolese population in the eastern part of the country, then military groups like M23 will continue to exist.