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The organizers of the Pre-Easter Gospel Music Festival, which will be held at the ICC Arena, Durban, on March 28 from 5.30 pm, say that everything is ready and they are expecting people to attend the event.They say that although tickets are still available and selling, they urge those who have not bought to do so.The organizer of this famous event, Thulani Ga Ndlela, said that they have organized this year’s event with the aim of ensuring that the audience is blessed because of the music that will be played by different artists.”We urge people to buy tickets, not to…
IGNORING the ‘noise’ coming from outside the team will be key for Orlando Pirates in their campaign to collect enough points in the remaining nine Betway Premiership games to put themselves in a position to end their 14-year streak of losing the league title. This advice came from the mouth of Lucky “Phinda Mzala” Lekgwathi who is the last captain of Pirates who lifted the league trophy in the 2011/2012 season. This season, Pirates are trying to dislodge Mamelodi Sundowns, who have turned the tables on South Africa’s biggest league. The Brazilians are trying to win the league title for…
Only the Western Cape recorded an increase in schools, with eight additional schools. In the span of ten years, this province has only added 17 schools, says Fedsas. Stock photo (Photo: Shutterstock) Fedsas, the school governing body organisation, warns that South Africa’s education planning is increasingly under pressure, with fewer and fewer schools having to accommodate more and more learners. However, according to the organization, this trend is unsustainable. Dr. Jaco Deacon, chief executive of Fedsas, says the government’s calculations in the education system do not add up. According to the latest available data, South Africa currently has 22,259 public…
FORMER coach of Kaizer Chiefs, Stuart Baxter, has suggested local legend Benni McCarthy as one of the best candidates to coach the team.At the moment Makhosi is managed by Cedric Kaze and Khali Ben Youssef, following the departure of Nasreddine Nabi in October last year.Baxter, who coached the Chiefs from 2012 to 2015, and returned from 2021 to 2022, sees McCarthy as being able to withstand the pressure of coaching this big team.Amakhosi have failed to hold the ball this season and have fallen behind in the race for the Betway Premiership league title. This team lost four games in…
The slimming of the chances of joining the Bafana Bafana squad heading for the World Cup in June, is not on the mind of the Mamelodi Sundowns stopper, Grant Kekana, but we are suffering from the feeling of indebtedness to this team from Chloorkop for what happened in the final of the Caf Champions League last season. Kekana is one of the players who are used to being left out of Bafana since he is among the top scorers in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) in Ivory Coast in 2023.There are less than three months left before Bafana start…
Strait of Hormuz. (Photo: STR/AFP) The Iranian ambassador on Wednesday offered safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz for South African cargoes, and urged all Brics countries to insist on an end to American-Israeli “aggression”. South Africa’s ties with Iran are a sticking point in its relationship with the US, which together with Israel started the Middle Eastern conflict almost three weeks ago. Mansour Shakib Mehr, Iran’s ambassador to South Africa, praised South Africa for its condemnation of the attack and its decision to maintain ties with Iran despite pressure from the US. “We have a very close dialogue,” he…
Three suspects were shot and killed during a high-speed chase with the Hawk Tactical Operations Management Team in the early hours of Thursday, Crystal Park, Benoni.The members received information about the suspects who were planning to hijack a car and kidnap a person on Elm road. At around 20:30, members of the TOMS Hawks saw a car, a silver gray Opel Astra shortly after they took the female victim out of her Fiat and put her in their car.There was a high-speed chase and the suspects opened fire at the hawk. The suspect’s car swerved and hit a side barrier…
Questions raised over US knowledge of Israeli plans to strike key Iranian gasfield as Gulf region’s energy infrastructure becomes target for attack.Published On 19 Mar 202619 Mar 2026United States President Donald Trump has tried to distance the US from Israel’s attack on Iran’s South Pars gasfield, describing his Israeli allies as having “violently lashed out” at the facility and promising that it would not reoccur if Tehran refrains from attacking Qatar.Trump said the US had “nothing to do” with the strike on the offshore gasfield facilities in Iran’s Bushehr province on Wednesday, which was followed by Iran pledging to strike…
Matome Chiloane, Gauteng MEC of Education. (Photo: Provided)The Gauteng Department of Education has appointed a law firm to conduct an independent investigation following the death of a ten-year-old boy at a school in Tembisa.Milton Neo Mokgoatsane, a gr. 5 learner from Reagile Primary School in Winnie Mandela, died on 18 February after a goal cage fell on him.It was earlier reported that a group of learners were playing around the goal cage on a soccer field at the school when a goal post allegedly fell on the boy, resulting in fatal injuries.Matome Chiloane, the MEC for education in Gauteng, officially…
The National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Fannie Masemola, also pressed the suspended Minister of Police, Mr. Senzo Mchunu, when he appeared before the Parliamentary committee.Masemola made allegations that Mchunu ordered the disbanding of the police team investigating the murder of politicians in KwaZulu-Natal because he wanted to block the investigation of the police who were investigating a businessman facing a series of crimes, Mr. Vusumuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala.Masemola said that the people who cooperated with Chunu in the attempts to stop Matlala’s investigation were the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya, and Mr. Brown Mogotsi.”If you look closely…