Month: February 2024
News24 | SCA overturns man’s conviction, 20-year jail sentence for rape
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) described the woman who accused a man of raping her as "a jilted lover" and overturned his conviction and 20-year jail sentence.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Fezile Dabi Stadium: Fixing a ‘white elephant’ restores hope for impoverished family
This is the remarkable story of S’busisiwe Sithebe, who took hold of a bad situation and made a success of herself. When a Free State community worked together to fix the dilapidated "white elephant" Fezile Dabi Stadium in Parys, little did they know they would...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Bok star Willemse braces for ‘epic’ Ireland, All Blacks Tests: ‘There’s a target on our backs’
Damian Willemse says the Springboks' 2024 home Tests against Ireland and New Zealand will be "massive".
Continue ReadingNews24 | FRIDAY BRIEFING | Mission overload: SANDF stretched on several fronts
Deployed to two African conflicts and on three domestic missions, is the SANDF capacitated or are they on a kamikaze mission?
Continue ReadingNews24 | We showed ours, now show us yours: ANC demands DA release its deployment records
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula described the DA's bid to dismantle cadre deployment as an "ideological offensive" on the policy.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Karyn Maughan | How Hlophe and Motata’s false racism claims helped them evade accountability
John Hlophe and Nkola Motata have been stripped of their judicial titles and salaries for life after committing acts of gross misconduct. But, Karyn Maughan writes, the fact that it took 16 years for it to happen shows just how effective their false "race card"...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Concern as ‘conservative’ unit trust is burned by exposure to SA taxi lender
The debt woes of South Africa’s minibus taxi industry continue to claim more victims.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mpofu, Sikhakhane and Jiba: Zuma’s MK Party relies on legal heavyweights in showdown with ANC
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula suggested on Thursday that there was a sinister motive behind the formation of the MK Party.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Exact replica’: Fort Hare prof at heart of plagiarism and predatory journal scandal
A professor at the University of Fort Hare is at the centre of a plagiarism scandal after allegedly failing to detect copying in the theses of nine postgraduate students he supervised.
Continue ReadingNews24 | DA wants to charge Mbalula with contempt if it doesn’t get all cadre records within 2 days
The cadre deployment records the ANC finally handed to DA MP Leon Schreiber after a lengthy court battle didn’t include the records for the period President Cyril Ramaphosa was the deployment committee’s chairperson and are heavily redacted.
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