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South Africa’s top teacher, who is going to represent the country in the Global Teacher Awards in Dubai in September, says the education department should do away with LO as a subject and give pupils entrepreneurship training before they finish school .
Hector Mkansi and Nonhlanhla Soldaat met in 2010 and were married in 2012, but Mkansi could not afford an expensive ring. After saving up, they went to the KFC and he asked Soldaat to marry him for a second time.
Benni McCarthy is the new Bafana Bafana coach. And he is going with his lieutenants – assistant coach Siyabonga Nomvethe and goalkeeper coach Moeneeb Josephs – as part of his negotiated package.
He starts on May 29 to prepare for Zimbabwe.
Legendary footballer Matthew Booth's employer SuperSport has distanced itself from allegations of infidelity levelled against him by his wife, stating that "it's a private matter" .
Goodbye ANC, and now there’s water | Barely eight months after the MAP16 community organisation kicked out the ANC in the municipal election, the coalition government has managed to change the situation: There is water in the taps again .
30-year-old Neo Leburu has no regrets after quitting her job to follow her dream of becoming a farmer: “Many people, including my boss, thought I was crazy. They found it hard to understand how someone would quit an office job to go into goat farming”
Lieutenant Colonel Joe Coetzer was shot multiple times in Friday's gun battle which claimed the lives of 18 CIT robbers, but kept going. This has unfortunately cost him his leg.
After five decades of marriage, Letta and Caiphus Semenya are a model couple in an industry where romance is fickle. The couple laugh, tease and interject like young lovers
Newsletter| Nkululeko Tunzi, a computer science graduate from TUT, has invented an innovative walking aid that helps blind people navigate traffic. The product, called Bulatsela, uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence to interpret surroundings
Benny! Benny! Benny! Thousands of jubilant music fans cried out in excitement as the undisputed king of Xitsonga traditional music, Benny “President” Mayengani took to the stage at a packed Giyani Stadium in Limpopo
#FillUpGiyaniStadium
Pearl Modiadie and Andile Ncube were spotted cuddling and kissing at the popular Tashas restaurant in Morningside last month. Insiders say the two are still getting to know each other .
Black Coffee empowers his son | Grammy Award-winning DJ Black Coffee’s son Esona Tyolo might be one of the country’s wealthiest young bosses after being handed two directorships at his father’s companies .
Television viewers are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to award presenter Xolani Maphanga with one of South Africa’s honours, the Order of Ikhamanga, for the work he is doing on his show, X-Repo .
Somizi Mhlongo’s intended divorce from his estranged husband, Mohale Motaung, has allegedly hit a snag after it emerged that the two had not registered their marriage with the department of home affairs .
How To Steal A Country has finally been released on Showmax. Using interviews and archive footage, it weaves together a devastating picture of how Gupta-Zuma alliance stole about R1 trillion through state capture. Grethe Kemp speaks to the film makers
Ennock Mlangeni had skills, but no money to make his art dreams come true.
That is until he posted a picture he created of DJ Black Coffee and it went viral. Now Nestlé is building a studio for him – and a gallery-cum-coffee shop – to set him up for life
Renowned rapper and television presenter Siyabonga Metane, famously known as Slikour, has slapped social media influencer Nota Baloyi with a R250 000 defamation lawsuit .
Police Minister Bheki Cele has ordered the reopening of investigations into high-profile murders, including those of Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, North West businessman Wandile Bozwana and Rustenburg whistle-blower Moss Phakoe
Former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mbuso Mandela, was arrested for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and suspected drugs after police raided his apartment in Morningside .
Former Banyana Banyana captain Portia Modise has been appointed by Fifa as one of the global game body’s 13 ambassadors for Fifa Women’s World Cup by
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Christmas came early for 363 clients at a PEP Stores branch in Mossel Bay, Western Cape. An unknown benefactor paid R337 000 to the shop to pay off people’s lay-by items
Bonang Matheba has partnered with the world-class technology arm of Cartrack to launch the B-Safe app to help combat the scourge of gender-based violence in South Africa
University of Cape Town Professor Elelwani Ramugondo is taking the university to court for hiring a “less qualified” white academic as its deputy vice-chancellor for teaching and learning
Police resources used in Phala Phala theft cover-up | National police commissioner General Fannie Masemola allegedly authorised the use of a police helicopter and a communication interception device .
“To be silent about his evil past would be to insult the memories of those thousands of lives he ended prematurely,” writes City Press editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya.
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Police Minister Bheki Cele has placed alcohol at the centre of South Africa’s high crime rate, and says he wishes the alcohol ban could be in place even after the lockdown
“If you can bring in 4000 people and spread them all over the stadium, I don’t think that would cause any danger. I find it strange that they can allow areas where people can crowd indoors, but will not allow a big place like a stadium.” - Kaizer Motaung
Kgalema Motlanthe: The ANC must not be held to ransom by traditional leaders who act as “village tinpot dictators” and lay claim to land that doesn’t even belong to them
Fabio Pitt teaches English to Grade 8 pupils during the week. At the weekend, he changes into a police uniform. Last year, Pitt caught 65 criminals, recovered 23 stolen or hijacked vehicles, 13 unlicensed firearms and stolen property worth R4.2 million
The sexual assault case against former Radio 947 hosts DJ Fresh, whose given name is Thato Sikwane, and Euphonik, whose given name is Themba Nkosi, has been reopened .
MOST READ | When BEE was born, politicians who had no idea how to run anything became millionaires overnight. They owned 25% of businesses that took decades to build without the sweat and the blood that was required, writes Onkgopotse JJ Tabane
It appears the Easter gathering in Moria, which draws an estimated 3 million people, will continue as usual. Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha says government will distribute 1 million pamphlets to the church to raise awareness about the coronavirus
Fred Khumalo | President Ramaphosa goes to England and tells the world Queen Elizabeth fought against apartheid. Huh? We all sing for our supper, in one way or another. But there are limits, dude!
18-year-old Gomolemo Legae was stabbed more than 25 times, but this was not enough for her assailant, who allegedly returned to douse her with petrol and set her alight.
Cyril is ‘liable’ for Marikana | Scathing ruling by High Court finds President Cyril Ramaphosa might carry some blame for the lead-up to the bloody Marikana massacre .
Mondli Makhanya | We shouldn’t fear Cyril exit: We cannot be afraid to hold him to account – including chasing him out of the Union Buildings – because we believe he is the best of the worst .
Boity owned this year: The 29-year-old rapper travelled to all the corners of the world, bought herself a luxury SUV, surprised her mother with a brand-new Mercedes-Benz, her single – Wuz Dat – went platinum, and she is working on a music documentary
Yesterday marked 10 years since Jimmy Mohlala was shot dead at his home in Kanyamazane, shortly after uncovering tender corruption for the R1.2bn Mbombela Stadium. The last time his widow Bonny got an update about the investigation was five years ago
It was like something out of an action movie: helicopters, cars and motorcycles descended on a large, organised hijacking syndicate at a chrome mine, which has stolen more than R1 million worth of chrome a day for about a year .
"Patrice Motsepe must know his place. He must sit down; we are not Motsepe’s people...They are capturing SA. We want to warn Patrice Motsepe, we are watching you the same way we watched the Guptas," Julius Malema's stern warning to the SA billionaire
Catching a Pretoria serial killer | His personal life came to a standstill as he worked through the night, but today private detective Chris Craucamp is pleased that Pretoria serial killer Wellington Kachitza has been convicted .
Former Zimbabwe minister, Patrick Zhuwao, has applied to join the EFF: “I have applied to join the EFF as a fighter and ordinary card carrying member in a branch within Gauteng. I am happy to work as a ground fighter”
Cassper Nyovest’s latest album is evidence that he has evolved as a hip-hop artist – this is the best album of his music career, judging by how it has been received by his fans.
Armed with charm, looks and his pricey red kettle, Mr Smeg curated for himself a sphere of influence that goes beyond a viral moment to become an integral part of SA’s celebrityville, writes Janice Phiri .
The Hawks are looking into allegations that flamboyant businessperson Hamilton Ndlovu benefited from a multimillion-rand personal protective equipment contract from the Eastern Cape provincial government.
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| Media personality Boity Thulo has allegedly asked former Metro FM host Bujy Bikwa for R1 million as part of a settlement agreement relating to an assault charge she laid against him .
The nonexistent president: But, clever actor that he is, Cyril Ramaphosa has found a creative way of making it look like he is working, writes Mondli Makhanya in his latest column .
Mkhwebane’s impeachment inquiry on shaky ground: unusual things have happened in the past five weeks that could well compromise the process and even affirm the notion that the inquiry was constituted to victimise Mkhwebane .
Mondli Makhanya | Cyril was an enabler: Ramaphosa was there for all those bad years, smiling and chuckling amiably. And he wants us to believe that, somehow, he was the good guy? No, he was an enabler .
Suspended public enterprises director-general Kgathatso Tlhakudi has made shocking allegations that assets belonging to SAA were undervalued by R7 billion and that a new board is on the cards to approve the irregular transaction .
A judge in the Pretoria High Court has demanded that an all-white group of lawyers appearing before him explain why there is not a single black lawyer among them.
We keep producing leaders who do not grow up. They become senior in their parties and in government but they remain the children they were when they entered politics. Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is that person, writes Mondli Makhanya