Solly Makganoto The 18-year-old America rapper Kentrell DeSean Gaulden, also known as YoungBoy Never Broke Again has recently confirmed that he will be adding to his family again, with child No. 4 on the way. The 18-year-old rapper confirmed the news on social media, while responding to a Twitter user who falsely reported the size of […]
PARLIAMENT, August 14 – Officials from South Africa’s energy department were a no-show in Parliament on Tuesday and failed to brief MPs on nationwide calls for government to reduce the fuel price. Chairman of Parliament’s energy portfolio committee Fikile Majola described the failure of the officials to pitch for the meeting as a “boycott”. Majola […]
Solly Makganoto Johannesburg – The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs began public hearings into the Customary Initiation Bill in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape on Monday. The people of Port Elizabeth pleaded with Parliament and government to safeguard circumcision and keep medical doctors far away from traditional initiation. A traditional nurse, […]
PRETORIA, August 13 – The case against five Pretoria men accused of assaulting a black couple at a KFC drive through last year, has been postponed to September. Defence lawyer for three of the accused, Advocate Nolse Nolte, requested more details from the State, and said while he had received the docket questions still needed […]
CAPE TOWN, August 13 – A psychologist testifying in mitigation of sentence in the trial of convicted murderer, Guatemalan national Diego Novella, described him as the “black sheep” of the family, in the Western Cape High Court on Monday. Judge Vincent Saldanha insisted, however, that this was a “colloquially inappropriate term” and Giada del Fabbro […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 13 – The International Relations and Cooperation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu on Monday handed over the chair of the SADC Council of Ministers to her Namibian counterpart, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa, who is also deputy prime minister, saying women continue to enhance “our shared vision of attaining a stable, peaceful, secure and prosperous” region. Sisulu […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 13 – The National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) on Monday welcomed the resignation of Sizwe Nxasana as National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) chairman this week. Nxasana reportedly handed over his resignation letter to Higher Education Minister Naledi Pandor on Monday. His resignation came as the embattled scheme faces a […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 13 – A Chinese tourist was attacked and killed by a hippo while taking pictures on the edge of Lake Naivasha in Kenya’s Rift Valley, just hours after a local fisherman was mauled to death in the same area, AP reported. A second Chinese tourist was injured in the incident Saturday night and […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 13 – South Africa’s rand fell over eight percent to its weakest level in more than two years against the U.S. dollar on Monday, breaching the 15.00 mark as turmoil in Turkey turned investors against emerging market currencies. The rand’s depreciation, which took it to around 15.40 against the dollar at one point, […]
JOHANNESBURG, August 13 – Eskom on Monday vowed to take disciplinary action against its workers who embarked on industrial action and damaged infrastructure last week as the power utility and unions failed to reach an agreement in protracted wage negotiations. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) last week threatened to go on a […]