Month: November 2024
News24 | Crime stats show progress but surge in violence against women, children is troubling – expert
To achieve sustainable crime statistic results, the long-standing policing model that favours large numbers of low-skilled officers over a smaller, more professional service needs to be overhauled urgently, an expert has said.
Continue ReadingNews24 | LISTEN | ‘My job is to kill’: Self-confessed hitman tells Eastern Cape education CFO to resign or die
Eastern Cape Department of Education chief financial officer is living in fear after receiving death threats from a man who identifed himself as an inkabi (hitman) hired to kill her.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Lungani Zama | Rassie and Clarkson – two peas in a most peculiar pod!
You have to wonder quite what Rassie Erasmus will have to do before he can smoke the peace pipe with the rugby powers that be, writes Lungani Zama.
Continue ReadingNews24 | FESTIVE READING | 5 must-read international novels, from courtroom dramas to ancient epic adventures
From John Boyne to Amor Towles and Elif Shafak, here are five novels by international authors you might go for.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Oceana’s big plan with Lucky Star two-minute noodles, canned chicken livers
JSE-listed fishing group Oceana is trialling a two-minute noodle product under its Lucky Star brand with Pick n Pay's Boxer chain.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘If I die here, please know that I love you’: Zama zama’s love letter to his wife from underground
An illegal miner who emerged from a shaft in Stilfontein on Sunday night managed to smuggle a letter to his wife, before retreating back into the mine.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Woolies shareholders unhappy with exec pay – again
Investors who together hold more than a third of Woolworths shares have opposed its remuneration policy.
Continue ReadingNews24 | PSL trio Pirates, Sundowns and Stellenbosch take on Africa, where sacrifices forge champions
For only the fourth time in the competition's 60-year existence, two South African representatives - Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates - are in the 2024/25 CAF Champions League campaign group phase.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘I’m fuelled by curiosity’: Veteran broadcaster Thabo Mokwele reflects on his award-winning journey
Thabo "T-Bose" Mokwele, a veteran in the radio industry, continues to shine as he receives a nomination for Best Music Show at the upcoming South African Radio Awards 2024.
Continue ReadingNews24 | From screen to reality: Understanding parricide in the wake of Netflix’s ‘Monsters’
A South African professor sheds light on the complex psychological and environmental factors behind parricide, as explored through local cases and insights into the motivations of those who kill their closest relatives.
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