Author: Phumla Mkize

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Private landlords in deep debt due to UJ pay delays
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Private landlords in deep debt due to UJ pay delays 

Scores of entrepreneurs who run private student accommodations face financial ruin because they are owed millions of rands in unpaid rental fees by the Universi... Read more.
Teenagers caught up in risky web of unprotected sex
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Teenagers caught up in risky web of unprotected sex

South African children aged between 10 and 14 years old are having unprotected sex and are in the process contracting sexually transmitted infections such as sy... Read more.
Michael Sandlana in court
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Fraud-accused IPHC head Sandlana’s security sparks fear in court

An atmosphere of paranoia and intimidation reigned supreme at the Pretoria magistrate’s court, where the trial of International Pentecostal Holiness Church (I... Read more.
Advice to close house of torture divides Stellenbosch University
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Advice to close ‘house of torture’ divides Stellenbosch University

The council of Stellenbosch University was not swayed by the vice chancellor’s recommendation that the controversial Wilgenhof men’s residence — found to ... Read more.
News, Sports

EXCLUSIVE: Defiant Olympian Maswanganyi ready for punishment

Track sensation and Olympic athlete Shaun Maswanganyi is ready to deal with whatever sanction is handed to him by Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the South Afr... Read more.
Student accommodation at TVET colleges ‘inferior’ 
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Student accommodation at TVET colleges ‘inferior’ 

Student leaders of technical and vocational education and training colleges (TVET) have taken the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to task... Read more.
Private college ‘lied’ to get millions in state subsidy 
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Private college ‘lied’ to get millions in state subsidy 

The SA Council of Educators (Sace) and Umalusi are probing a dodgy Joburg college, which has failed to pay teacher salaries for months and is also accused of mi... Read more.
Olympic athlete Maswanganyi dumps SA at Africa championships
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Olympic athlete Maswanganyi dumps SA at African championships  

US-based track sensation, Shaun Maswanganyi, faces possible withdrawal from SA’s Olympic Games team after throwing tantrums over accommodation and leaving his... Read more.
bogus' medical doctor's
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Bogus doctor may have given police fake address

A woman who was arrested for posing as a medical doctor at the Tembisa Hospital Provincial Tertiary Hospital this week may have misled the authorities about her... Read more.