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Court delays Vusi ‘Cat’ Matlala case over evidence dispute

The criminal case against alleged underworld figure and businessman Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala and four co-accused has been postponed to Wednesday after proceedings in the...

Horror Eastern Cape crash claims five lives after bakkie collides with...

Five people have died following a collision between a bakkie and a long-distance bus on the N2 near Peddie on Monday morning, according to...

Police confirm Jub Jub will appear in court on Wednesday over...

Controversial media personality Jub Jub, real name Molemo Maarohanye, is set to appear in court on Wednesday in connection with a kidnapping and shooting...

The discarded generation: Socio-economic realities and the educational progression ratio constraint

In this op-ed I explore the Educational Progression Ratio (EPR) bottleneck, the Fallacy of the Grant State and spatial inequality and the need to...

Whistleblowers need to be remembered

The Shree Mariammen Temple leadership, under chairperson Seelan Achary, is commended for the noble intention of erecting, in the near future, a statue at...

Charmza

When the US denied Somali referee Omar Artan entry for the 2026 World Cup, it tried to break him. Instead, it created an icon....

Gauteng premier suspends traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba

The Gauteng Office of the Premier has suspended the provincial traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba, pending the outcome of a formal disciplinary process. The...

Beyond administration: time to overhaul the NSFAS as we know it

Buried in a policy circular distributed recently to universities is an admission that South Africa’s student funding model might no longer be financially sustainable...

When the beautiful game meets ugly politics

When the beautiful game meets ugly politics For all its grand talk of unity and sporting transcendence, football has once again proved helpless against the...

Mzoli put Gugulethu on the map

From a township butcher to a global tourism icon, Mzoli Ngcawuzele transformed Gugulethu into a destination known across the world. For a community he helped...