Official: Monnapule Saleng Leaves Orlando Pirates!

Exciting winger Monnapule Saleng has departed Orlando Pirates in favour of a loan move.

Pirates have confirmed that the 27-year-old will spend the 2025/26 season at newly promoted Betway Premiership side Orbit College, in the North West province.

“Orlando Pirates can confirm that an agreement has been reached with Orbit College FC for the loan of Monnapule Saleng,” announced the Buccaneers on Wednesday evening.

Behind the scenes, Saleng was reportedly not on the same page with the club, leading toREAD MORE

The Global Energy Prize International Award Committee has announced the names of the 2025 laureates. Among the winners are researchers from China and Russia whose discoveries and innovations offer new solutions for the generation, transmission, and use of energy. The TV BRICS International Media Network served as an international partner of the event.

The award in the Conventional Energy category was presented to Jinliang He, chair of High Voltage Engineering Research Institute, professor at China’s Tsinghua University (China), for theREAD MORE

The Royal Norwegian Embassy and UN Women have launched the third phase of the “She Leads Peace” project, reinforcing their shared commitment to advancing the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in Mozambique.

Backed by a $2.3 million grant from Norway, the initiative will strengthen the role of women and girls in peacebuilding across provinces affected by conflict and crisis.

The project will be implemented in 14 districts across Cabo Delgado and Nampula in the north, and Manica and SofalaREAD MORE

Mozambique has recorded the fourth highest adolescent birth rate in the world, according to the United Nations’ 2025 State of World Population report, presented in Maputo on Tuesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

The report reveals that between 2001 and 2024, Mozambique registered 158 births per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19. The country ranks behind only the Central African Republic (184), Equatorial Guinea (176), and Angola (163) in terms of adolescent fertility.

Mozambique’s overall fertility rate currentlyREAD MORE

Parliament has directed three of its oversight committees to urgently investigate serious allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, implicating senior police officials and Police Minister Senzo Mchunu in political interference and corruption.

On Wednesday, National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza confirmed that the Portfolio Committee on Police, the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development, and the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence have been instructed to consider the claims and report back to the National Assembly.

DidizaREAD MORE

Mozambican international Reinildo Mandava says his dream was to play in the Premier League as he officially signed a two-year contract with English side Sunderland, marking a historic milestone as he becomes the first Mozambican player to feature in the world’s most competitive League.

Mandava, a left-back who has also played as a centre-back for Mozambique’s national team, was unveiled by Sunderland on Tuesday, following the club’s promotion to the English top flight.

In his first interview wearing the club’sREAD MORE

Durban City’s search for a new head coach has ended with the club bringing on board experienced manager Gavin Hunt.

Hunt, 60, has been announced as the new mentor of the Betway Premiership side from KwaZulu-Natal.

Durban City were searching for a replacement after parting ways with Simo Dladla, who guided the club to automatic promotion from the Motsepe Foundation Championship. Dladla has since joined AmaZulu as assistant coach to Arthur Zwane.

With that chapter closed for Durban City, theREAD MORE

The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has notified his Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) counterpart, Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa, that his department intends to withhold the July 2025 equitable share allocation from 39 municipalities across the country for violating constitutional provisions in managing their finances.

In the letter dated 30 June 2025, obtained by the African Times, Godongwana told Hlabisa that these municipalities owe water boards, have failed to pay pension funds and medical aid schemes for employees, and haveREAD MORE

Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala — the Pretoria businessman at the centre of a multi-million rand police tender scandal and alleged links to senior government officials — was caught with a cellphone inside his cell at Kgoši Mampuru Correctional Centre, intensifying concerns over systemic corruption and the abuse of state institutions.

Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Samuel Thobakgale confirmed the dramatic discovery during a routine security raid conducted over the weekend, which has since led to Matlala’s transfer to the maximum-security C-Max sectionREAD MORE

Willie le Roux will become the eighth Springbok centurion on Saturday when South Africa meet Italy in the second Castle Lager Incoming Series Test at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.

The new-look team will be led by Salmaan Moerat and includes three uncapped players on the bench.

The players in Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus’ team in line to make their Test debuts are Asenathi Ntlabakanye (prop), who featured in their 54-7 victory against the Barbarians twoREAD MORE