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Lawyer representing ‘killer’ of Madlanga witness wants bail application heard soon

The legal team representing Matiphandile Sotheni has informed the Brakpan Magistrate's Court of its intention to bring a bail application when the accused returns...

Charmza

History was written at the Totalsports Two Oceans Ultra Marathon in Cape Town yesterday as the unstoppable Gerda Steyn claimed a record-breaking seventh consecutive...

Moegoe

Self-proclaimed “Super fan” Mama Joy Chauke stooped to an entitled low on social media, demanding that government fly her to the US at taxpayer’s...

Door-to-door campaigning in a changing SA: Is this electoral strategy still...

In the early decades of South Africa’s democracy, few campaign strategies proved as potent as door-to-door mobilisation. Championed during the presidency of Thabo Mbeki,...

US ambassador’s critique of BEE undermines SA’s sovereignty

On Wednesday, April 8, a diplomatic event where President Cyril Ramaphosa received Letters of Credence from newly designated heads of mission should have been...

Nations rise and fall on citizens’ character

From the service-delivery and civil protests that periodically shake South Africa’s municipalities to Botswana’s ongoing debates about public accountability and governance standards to Zimbabwe’s...

This war has been a strategic defeat for the US and...

Let me be very clear. This two-week ceasefire is not the end of this war. US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

The mayor and the movement: Can Hill-Lewis remake the DA?

As the DA commences its elective federal congress, the party stands at a precipice that feels strangely familiar: poised for growth yet seemingly unable...

R600m coal theft charges hit mining firm, directors

  A coal mining company and its directors have been accused of stealing more than R600-million worth of coal in a criminal case linked to...

Police bust drug den in Sandton leafy suburbs

Thugs who think running a crack house from the tranquil upmarket suburbs will  help them evade law enforcers had better think again. Law enforcement...