The EFF’s decision to embrace Michael “Ngrayi” Ngwenya, a polarizing figure known for his aggressive tactics and suppression of opposing viewpoints within the ANC in Mpumalanga, has sparked a wave of controversy. On Sunday, Ngwenya was paraded as one of the 3,000 former ANC members recruited to join the red berets as part of an… Continue reading ANC’s Donkey Label Drove Me Into EFF Arms – Ngrayi Ngwenya
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Mathabatha Admits To Service Delivery Failures Amid Rampant Water Shortage
Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabatha has admitted to parliamentarians that his government has failed to provide water to citizens for the past five years as promised. Mathabatha, also provincial ANC chairperson, blamed a litany of external factors – including leakages in the bulk water pipeline, rampant vandalism, unpredictable load shedding, and deteriorating infrastructure. He addressed members… Continue reading Mathabatha Admits To Service Delivery Failures Amid Rampant Water Shortage
Hichilema Announces Elevation of China-Zambia Ties
BEIJING, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Zambian counterpart, Hakainde Hichilema, in Beijing on Friday. The two heads of state announced the elevation of the China-Zambia relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Xi said that the traditional friendship forged by the two countries’ older generations of leaders has… Continue reading Hichilema Announces Elevation of China-Zambia Ties
Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed
September 12, 1977 holds profound lessons of struggle through a thinker, a struggle icon, a human philosopher and a realist who was brutally murdered forty-six years ago. It brings closer the privilege and the presence of mind of having been in the same space, four decades ago, of one who, when he learnt that Steve… Continue reading Biko’s Intellectual Finesse Left Apartheid-Era Justice Minister Jimmy Kruger Paralysed
Macron’s Rivalry With Erdoğan Puts Brakes On Grain Deal
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan failed to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to continue the Black Sea Grain Initiative during their meeting in the Russian city of Sochi on Sept. 4. Russia had suspended the initiative in July after complaining that Western partners had not lifted restrictions on banking and logistics. Erdoğan has strongly supported… Continue reading Macron’s Rivalry With Erdoğan Puts Brakes On Grain Deal
Blacks Remain A Cultural Minority, Economically Weak 46 Years After Biko’s Death – AZAPO
Every September, our movement, the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), reflects on our heritage, our beacon of hope, the founding father of our guiding philosophy of Black Consciousness, Bantu Biko. Biko was brutally murdered in police custody by the racist apartheid regime on September 12, 1977. AZAPO has, for the past 46 years, commemorated the death… Continue reading Blacks Remain A Cultural Minority, Economically Weak 46 Years After Biko’s Death – AZAPO
US Congress’ ‘Decoupling’ Bills Are Out of Tune With Times
With the US government further pushing its “strategic competition” with China, the rhetoric of “decoupling,” aiming to reduce mutual economic interdependence between China and the US, and even attempting to “squeeze out” China out of the existing international economic system, has been making waves in Washington for some time. Since the Trump administration, the US… Continue reading US Congress’ ‘Decoupling’ Bills Are Out of Tune With Times
Lotteries Official, Wife ‘Used 400 Daycare Centers To Steal R32m In Two Years’
The Special Tribunal has frozen several bank accounts belonging to a KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) National Lotteries Commission (NLC) official and his wife, who are accused of using 400 daycare centers and football clubs to siphon R32 million from the gambling entity. The interim order was initially granted on August 16, 2023, but has now been varied… Continue reading Lotteries Official, Wife ‘Used 400 Daycare Centers To Steal R32m In Two Years’
UJ Distances Itself From ‘Flawed’ Immigration Report
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been forced to distance itself from a controversial report claiming that non-stringent immigration laws benefit South Africa, saying it was internally addressing questions about “methodological flaws and unsubstantiated” findings. This comes after a counter report by a group of South African researchers tore into the university’s Centre for Sociological… Continue reading UJ Distances Itself From ‘Flawed’ Immigration Report
Young Teacher’s Drive To Fight Illiteracy Among Minors Commended
A 22-year-old primary school teacher has received praise for penning a book to help children become proficient readers, especially considering that 81% of Grade 4 students in South Africa struggle with literacy. The author, Vuyisile Mahlobo, participated in a forum of authors at the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) in Mbombela during a Literary Renaissance roundtable.… Continue reading Young Teacher’s Drive To Fight Illiteracy Among Minors Commended