University of Limpopo Confirms 22-Year-Old Woman Found Dead Near Campus Was Its Student

The University of Limpopo has confirmed that the 22-year-old woman found dead near its Mankweng campus on Sunday morning was a student at the institution, as police continue investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.

The university said the student’s family had been informed and expressed condolences to her relatives, friends, fellow students and colleagues.

African Times News earlier reported that police discovered the woman’s body just outside theREAD MORE

Something remarkably optimistic is unfolding as Africa’s informal economy is rediscovered. For decades, informal traders, street vendors, domestic workers, casual labourers, home-based producers and small businesses were largely treated as evidence of economic weakness and underdevelopment. Increasingly, however, they are being presented as evidence of entrepreneurial dynamism, resilience, innovation and even an enormous reservoir of untapped wealth.

The language has shifted: unemployment is recast as entrepreneurship, precarious livelihoods as flexibility, and informality as an opportunity waiting to beREAD MORE

Police in Mankweng have opened an inquest after the body of a 22-year-old woman was discovered along the fence of the University of Limpopo campus outside Polokwane on Sunday morning.

Accordaning to Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba, the woman was found at about 6am along Sovenga Street after police officers conducting patrols received information about a female lying motionless near the university fence.

Police rushed to the scene and found the woman’s body partially clothed, with her head positionedREAD MORE

A former Eskom employee has been sentenced to an effective 10 years in prison for her role in a fraudulent scheme that caused the power utility to lose approximately R1.8 million.

The Nelspruit court sentenced Cinderella Thabisile Muropane on Friday, 2 October 2026 after a Hawks investigation uncovered a scheme involving fraudulent invoices and payments processed for work that had not been performed.

Muropane was employed at Eskom’s Nelspruit offices when the alleged fraudulent transactions took place.

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Three months ago, I published a paper documenting a gap almost nobody wanted to look at: South Africa’s IRP 2025 commits 6,000 MW of gas-to-power capacity to bridge a 9.5 GW electricity shortfall, and the plan tells you whether that capacity gets built on time — but says nothing about whether the fuel it depends on will be affordable, or how a fuel-cost shock would even be recovered [1]. I called it a compound vulnerability: two structural mechanisms —READ MORE

The Xitsonga music and broadcasting fraternity on Sunday gave Tiveka Foster “Mafosi” Chauke a final farewell, laying the celebrated broadcaster and music producer to rest amid an outpouring of grief and support from government officials, artists, colleagues, family and community members.

Mafosi, affectionately known as “Try by Force,” died on 26 September 2026 at the age of 49, leaving behind a legacy that stretched across radio, music and community service. He died from a car accident on hisREAD MORE

The Hawks have proposed R100,000 bail for each of two new accused in the sprawling deceased-estates fraud and money-laundering case, as the State continues to unravel an alleged trail of millions of rand moved through bank accounts, businesses and transactions linked to suspended Polokwane attorney Charlotte Tibana.

Risima Jeje Trading Enterprise director Jabulani Maluleke, 43, and LLB student Rirhandzu Tibana, the younger sister of Charlotte Tibana, appeared in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Friday for their formal bailREAD MORE

Former ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has lost his bid to stop civil recovery proceedings brought against him by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) over alleged irregularities in a R27.6 million waste management tender.

The Special Tribunal dismissed Mabe’s application to stay the proceedings against him and Enviro Mobi (Pty) Ltd, ordering him to pay the legal costs of the application.

The SIU welcomed the judgment on Friday, saying the tribunal had rejected Mabe’s argumentsREAD MORE

Pitso Mosimane believes Amajita’s back-to-back COSAFA Under-20 titles are evidence that South Africa’s football development structures are beginning to produce the next generation of players for Bafana Bafana.

Mosimane praised Raymond Mdaka and his young charges after they defeated hosts Mozambique 2-1 in Sunday’s COSAFA Under-20 final at ABB Stadium 1.

The victory secured another regional title for Amajita and also booked their place at the Africa Cup of Nations Under-20 tournament, continuing a run of successREAD MORE

Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya will remain behind bars after his bail application was postponed to 7 October, as the State and defence continued to clash over allegations of witness interference, sexual offences and a newly added firearm charge.

Sibiya appeared before the Randburg Magistrates’ Court on Friday, where his legal team continued cross-examining the investigating officer, Sergeant Nokukhanya Ndlovu.

He is facing six charges, including rape, three counts relating to sexual grooming, humanREAD MORE