Month: April 2024
News24 | Mokwena apologises for Champions League failure but vows to make Sundowns African champions again
Mamelodi Sundowns' coach Rhulani Mokwena apologised to the club's supporters for the team's failure to get a second CAF Champions League title, taking full responsibility of their loss to Esperance.
Continue ReadingNews24 | EFF, MK Party manifestos: Two peas in a policy pod
While corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma's fledgling uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party took some inspiration from the ANC for its name and logo, in terms of the content of its policies (and oath of office), it drew from the EFF.
Continue ReadingNews24 | In Africa, English football is the game of presidents – and it can be deadly
In early April, Arsenal were blowing hot and cold in the English Premier League. In Beitbridge, Zimbabwe, a club supporter stabbed a colleague who had made fun of Arsenal's run.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Shocker! Stop putting election posters on our infrastructure, warns Eskom
Eskom has warned that it is illegal to put election posters on its infrastructure due to the risk of electric shock that may be suffered by the staff and volunteers of political parties. Municipalities allow posters on lamp posts, but only if they are not...
Continue ReadingNews24 | MK Party expels ‘rogue elements’, including party founder Jabulani Khumalo
The man who registered the uMkhonto weSizwe Party on behalf of former president Jacob Zuma has been expelled from the party.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Pieter du Toit | Clegg, Kerkorrel, Rina Hugo and Paul Simon: The soundtrack of 30 years ago
The transition from apartheid to democracy was pockmarked with violence, death, and distrust. But what a soundtrack those days had, writes Pieter du Toit.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Construction mafia: Minister vows to report businessman who abandoned multibillion-rand project to SIU
A developer who abandoned a project that was part of the R11 billion Montrose Mega City in Randfontein, West Rand, will need to provide answers for his actions.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Johan Fourie | Predicting election results is notoriously tricky – so why, and how, do we do it?
Trying to predict the future is a fool's errand, and yet we still try to do it - with mixed results, says Johan Fourie.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Boks: Japan contingent both great help and (constructive) headache
Japan-based Springboks like Jesse Kriel and Franco Mostert will soon provide a significant poser in Test selection, writes Rob Houwing.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Full steam ahead: Former train driver, stroke survivor graduates with social science degree
Former train driver Simbongile Qabaka refused to allow a debilitating stroke he suffered in 2018 to derail his plans of completing his first university degree.
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