Denim, White and Nostalgia: Lehika Soul Picnic to Celebrate the Soundtrack of a Generation

There are songs that do more than play in the background. They take you somewhere.

A familiar opening note can transport you to a university residence, a first love, a family celebration or a dance floor shared with friends who have long since gone their separate ways.

That is the feeling organisers of the inaugural Lehika Soul Picnic hope to capture when music lovers gather at Cookes Lake in Mahikeng on Saturday, 19 September.

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Attorney Charlotte Tibana is now facing five charges in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court in Limpopo after the State added a serious count of theft.

Tibana, the wife of co-accused Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) officer Peter “Greater Gagash” Nonyane, already faced two counts of fraud and two counts of money laundering.

The charges stem from allegations surrounding the administration of the estate of the late Hlengani Thompson Maswanganye, who died in October 2023.

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A 47-year-old Boschkop man accused of deliberately infecting his girlfriend with HIV has been granted R2,000 bail by the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court.

The man faces a charge of attempted murder after allegedly concealing his HIV-positive status from his 38-year-old partner and telling her that he was HIV negative during their relationship.

According to a statement issued by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Gauteng Division regional spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana on Friday, the couple started datingREAD MORE

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has withdrawn the fraud and corruption case against Crime Intelligence boss Lieutenant General Dumisani Khumalo and six senior police officials, following mounting questions about the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption’s handling of the investigation.

The decision, announced on Friday, comes as the Madlanga Commission continues to examine the circumstances surrounding the controversial case and the conduct of IDAC officials who investigated and prosecuted it.

The NPA said National Director of Public Prosecutions AdvocateREAD MORE

The arrest of a third suspect has deepened the case surrounding the Reiger Park shooting, in which two Anti-Gang Unit police officers and two young women were gunned down in Boksburg earlier this month.

Elvino Crawford, 27, appeared in the Boksburg Magistrates’ Court on Friday after being arrested at his home on 19 August, marking the latest development in an investigation that has already seen two other suspects charged with the killings.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for a major expansion and rebalancing of trade with Zimbabwe, saying the two neighbouring countries must turn their historic relationship into jobs, investment and tangible economic opportunities.

Ramaphosa was speaking on Friday at the opening of the fourth session of the South Africa-Zimbabwe Bi-National Commission in Pretoria, where he hosted Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The meeting comes as the two countries seek to deepen economic cooperation while addressing long-standing challenges aroundREAD MORE

Suspended MP and National Coloured Congress leader Fadiel Adams’ third day in the witness box at the Madlanga Commission opened with a dramatic shift in his evidence, as he conceded that a Section 27 affidavit before the inquiry may not be the document he originally submitted to the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC).

The development has placed the authenticity and provenance of a key document at the centre of Adams’ testimony, with the commission now seeking the originalREAD MORE

Gauteng residents and businesses have been urged to use water sparingly as rising consumption places increasing pressure on the province’s water supply system, with reservoir and tower storage levels continuing to decline despite pumping systems operating at or near full capacity.

The Gauteng Provincial Government issued the warning on Friday as municipalities grapple with growing demand across the province.

The province’s three metropolitan municipalities, Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane, account for about 70% of the water supplied byREAD MORE

A suspected multimillion-rand crystal methamphetamine manufacturing operation has been dismantled in Musina, Limpopo, with five people arrested and drugs and laboratory equipment worth an estimated R600 million seized.

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks, carried out the late-night operation on a farm in the Vhembe District on Thursday, following a two-month intelligence-driven investigation into suspected drug manufacturing activities.

The operation involved the Hawks, South African Police Service, South African Narcotics Enforcement Bureau, CrimeREAD MORE

The death of Professor Jason Arday, a British Sociology professor at Cambridge University, is more than the passing of a scholar. It is the loss of an intellectual force whose work challenged the comfortable assumptions through which knowledge about Africa, race, power, and the modern world has too often been produced.

For Black scholars, the death of a scholar such as Arday is deeply personal. We understand that scholarship is not always an innocent enterprise. Knowledge has historicallyREAD MORE