High-flying Durban taxi boss bust making withdrawals with 70 stolen Sassa cards
According to the charge sheet, Sthembiso Gcaba made 133 withdrawals on Saturday, withdrawing R1,800 each time – amounting to R239,400.
Continue reading →Former president’s bank statements, submitted to court, disprove claim that he only lives off his pension
Lawyers acting for a former president claimed this week they had been “ambushed” when his bank statements were handed in to court in an attempt to rebuff his claims he could only afford to pay his estranged wife R20,000 a … Continue reading →
65 Eastern Cape matric candidates head to court amid cheating claims
The results were withheld after allegations that the pupils were involved in cheating during the December 2020 examination.
Continue reading →Wits student debt is R1bn: vice-chancellor
Vice-chancellor and principal of Wits University Prof Zeblon Vilakazi says the issue of student funding is a national, system-wide issue which the university cannot solve alone.
Continue reading →Contralesa blasts police over shooting of Mthokozisi Ntumba in Joburg
“Mr President, I think the country wants to hear what is it this government is going to do,” Contralesa president Kgosi Mathupa Mokoena said on Thursday.
Continue reading →Siyabonga Gama was ‘ambushed’ into meeting the Guptas at home
After exchanging a few pleasantries, said the former Transnet boss, in walked an Indian man who was introduced to him as Tony Gupta.
Continue reading →This is how to break the student debt stalemate
It reportedly stands at more than R9bn, but there are ways to address the crisis and avoid the harmful, annual dance
Continue reading →Japan facing tough Olympic Games decisions
Tough decisions are facing the Tokyo Olympic organising committee as it weighs up the pros and cons of allowing foreign visitors to attend the global showpiece.
Continue reading →City’s name must have meaning for all residents
The renaming of places and building of heritage sites in post-apartheid SA seems to point to a new ways of ordering and shaping public memory. However, which parts of the past do we want to retain and which discard? And … Continue reading →
WATCH | Wits vice-chancellor Zeblon Vilakazi briefs media amid violent student protests
The vice-chancellor of Wits University, Zeblon Vilakazi, will on Thursday brief media about student grievances, chief among them being the financial exclusion of underprivileged students.
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