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  • Safa embroiled in R1m unpaid grants scandal
    by Bongani Mdakane on March 30, 2025 at 5:30 pm

    The SA Football Association (Safa) faces another scandal with eight clubs from the Gauteng Sasol Women’s League claiming the association owes them over R1-million in unpaid grant and prize money. The revelations contained in a letter addressed to the federation come in a week in which Safa announced it had failed to pay its staff

  • Two arrested for ‘plundering’ R600k from stokvel club account
    by Sunday World on March 30, 2025 at 5:00 pm

    Two members of a stokvel in Potchefstroom have been arrested for stealing more than half a million from the club. Police arrested Benjamin Mogotsi (51) and Constance Motaung (50) on Wednesday March 26. The pair appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court the next day. The court granted both R5 000 bail each and postponed the

  • Zuma was right to snub Zondo, says Sikhakhane
    by Mawande Amashabalala on March 30, 2025 at 4:00 pm

    Former president Jacob Zuma was politically correct to shun the Zondo commission, a decision that resulted in his imprisonment after the Constitutional Court sent him there. This is according to the outspoken Adv Muzi Sikhakhane SC, who represented Zuma during his application seeking to have the commission’s chairperson, retired Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, recuse himself.

  • Sonia called off secret engagement
    by Ngwako Malatji on March 30, 2025 at 3:30 pm

    Acclaimed television actress and executive producer Sonia Mbele has claimed to have called off her secret engagement to her former significant other because of his bad habits. This after she dumped her other boyfriend, a businessman after he got married because she did not want to be his sultana. Both the businessman and her ex

  • GNU ministers snub tribunal on pesticides killing pupils
    by Tshwarelo Mogakane on March 30, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    Four ministers of government of national unity (GNU) appear to have shunned an event organised to discuss the danger of pesticides that killed several school kids and left farm workers sick. Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, environment minister Dion George, and labour minister Nomakhosazana Meth were missing in action

  • Mantashe’s second adviser rejected
    by Mawande Amashabalala on March 30, 2025 at 2:00 pm

    Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe ‘s second attempt to appoint his chief of staff has suffered a blow after the new candidate he recommended for the post was rejected due to lack of the required experience. Mantashe, who is also the national chairperson of the ANC, had recommended former SABC journalist Unathi

  • Radio boss Mkhari hurls insults at former employee JJ Tabane
    by Ngwako Malatji on March 30, 2025 at 1:00 pm

    Radio mogul Given Mkhari has fired a broadside against hard-bitten television host JJ Tabane, calling him a “thief”, “a boy” and “a fool”. Mkhari hurled the abusive epithets at the prodigious television host on a WhatsApp group called “Open Politics” on Monday last week. The businessman, who owns Gauteng talk radio station Power FM and

  • U.S. hip hop star dies from injury sustained running from police
    by Sunday World on March 30, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    Atlanta authorities in the United States have revealed the tragic news of the death of hip hop star Young Scooter, on his birthday. Police said the rapper succumbed to injuries sustained when he jumped over two fences running from police on Friday.  City of Atlanta police spokesperson Andrew Smith announced that officers arrived at a

  • Mashatile warned of elaborate plot to charge him with perjury
    by Mzilikazi wa Afrika on March 30, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Deputy President Paul Mashatile has been tipped off to WhatsApp messages involving two cabinet ministers and a senior NPA official discussing a plot to charge him. The ministers and NPA official, who are known to Sunday World, cannot be named for legal reasons. According the WhatsApp messages, the two ministers told the NPA official to