“Police Minister Bheki Cele saying on national television that ‘a 19-year-old woman was lucky to be raped by one man while others were raped by 10 men’ should be the absolute last straw. Bheki Cele must go!” says DA Shadow Deputy Minister of Women, Nazley Sharif MP. The Police Minister, during an interview on eNCA, […]

The Commonwealth is conquered, now bring on the world. For the second time in 72 hours golden girl Lara van Niekerk blew away the opposition on the way to winning gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, this time adding the 100m breaststroke title to the 50m crown she won so impressively. By GARY LEMKE […]

The annual SA National Parks Week will this year run from 11 to 16 September 2022. Announcing the dates in a statement on Tuesday, SANParks (South African National Parks) said the 17th annual SA National Parks Week initiative, in partnership with Total South Africa and First National Bank, is in line with its vision statement […]

South African swimmer Lara van Niekerk won her second gold medal of the Games when she held off teammate Tatjana Schoenmaker (who won Silver!) in the women’s 100m breaststroke… as Team SA continued to rake in the medals at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Tuesday. Compiled by GARY LEMKE. Try watch this without shedding […]

Foreign law graduates who have lived, studied and completed articles and pupilage in South Africa do not qualify. By Tania Broughton. The Constitutional Court has ruled that a section of the Legal Practice Act that only allows South African citizens or permanent residents to be admitted as lawyers is constitutional. Foreign law graduates who have […]

Delta Air Lines has announced it’s adding a brand-new nonstop flight from Cape Town, South Africa, to Atlanta, USA, effective 18 December 2022. Complementing the airline’s existing service between Johannesburg and Atlanta, the flight will operate three times weekly, offering customers over 200 onward connections across the U.S. and beyond. Delta’s new Cape Town flight […]

On 28 June, the Gauteng High Court (sitting as the Equality Court) found that comments made about Chinese people on Facebook constitute hate speech in terms of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act (PEPUDA). By Geoffrey Allsop The Equality Court has ordered a number of people to apologise to the Chinese […]

A devastating 259 rhino were poached for their horn in South Africa in the first half of this year, which the government says is a “slight increase” from the same period last year. The number of rhino poached between January and June 2022 is 10 more than the 249 poached countrywide in the first six […]

Six more medals came Team South Africa’s way at the Commonwealth Games on Monday, taking their tally to 12 and leaving them in fifth spot on the table, writes GARY LEMKE in Birmingham. A top-six finish on the table has always been the Team SA target for these Games, and they have pulled themselves two […]

When Michaela Whitebooi steps out of her “girly-girl” shoes and puts on her judoji she undergoes a transformation in more than one sense. “I turn into a bulldog,” the 26-year-old says. By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham. And at Coventry Arena on Monday she became that “bulldog monster” that she so enjoys as she fought her […]

Two people have been shot and killed during protests in the township of Tembisa on Gauteng’s East Rand in South Africa. It is alleged that it was authorities who shot the two people, after protestors threw petrol bombs. According to Ekurhuleni Mayor, Tania Campbell (from the DA), the South African Police Service (SAPS) is trying […]

Idris Elba stars in Beast, a pulse-pounding new thriller about a father and his two teenage daughters who find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the savannah has but one apex predator. Co-starring in the film alongside Elba is South African actor, Sharlto Copley together with Iyana Halley and Leah Sava Jeffries. […]

Team SA is in action in seven different sports on Monday’s day four of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. They start the day with six medals! See below for who and what to watch today… Who has won South Africa’s medals so far at the Commonwealth Games? Swimmer Lara van Niekerk scooped […]

South African consumers are in for some relief this month as the Department of Minerals and Energy has announced a decrease in all grades of fuel starting from Wednesday… although it’s not as much as the opposition party believes it should be. The department also announced a reduction in the price of illuminating paraffin and […]

With over 80 suspects in the horrific Krugersdorp Gang Rape case expected to appear in court this morning, Monday 1 August, more police have been deployed to maintain the peace as various groups of protestors have gathered outside the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court. The suspects – many of them illegal immigrants – face charges of contravention […]

South Africa’s Department of Health and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) will no longer issue the daily numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and deaths due to a decrease in SARS-CoV-2 levels. It will instead be issued on a weekly basis. The department and the NICD had been reporting COVID-19 surveillance data on […]

Chad Le Clos has shot into the history books, after winning his 18th Commonwealth Games medal on Sunday! It may have been silver (he wanted gold), but it came with a silver lining. Writing from the Sandwell Aquatic Centre in England after coming second in the men’s 200m butterfly, the 30-year-old said on social media: […]

South Africa’s swimmers again rose to the occasion at a major championships when it counted most with a gold, silver and bronze to add to Saturday night’s two golds in the pool at the Commonwealth Games. By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham. South Africa is now in FOURTH place on the leaderboard (behind Australia, England and […]

South Africa’s Proteas cricket team has secured the series against England 2-1, with a brilliant day in the field today at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, England. With SA spinner Tabraiz Shamsi grabbing a maiden Twenty20 International five-wicket haul, it helped ensure England were dismissed for 101. Along with Reeza Hendricks’ 70 and Aiden Markram’s […]

South Africa and Fiji will contest the gold medal match at the Rugby Sevens event of the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham after the Springbok Sevens team defeated Australia 24-12 at Coventry Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Angelo Davids scored his third hat-trick of the Games as the South Africans recovered from an early 5-0 deficit […]

Rising South African teenager, Pieter Coetze, collected his first major title by winning the men’s 100m backstroke on Saturday evening, with a last lunge to the wall, winning in 53.78. By GARY LEMKE in Birmingham. Coetze had come into the race as the favourite and was given the treasured lane number four. He had a […]

South African teen sensation Lara van Niekerk has won SA’s first medal in the Commonwealth Games 2022, in Birmingham, England… and it’s GOLD. Putting South Africa on the medals table on Day 2, Lara – who hails from Pretoria – also broke another Games record, swimming the women’s 50m breaststroke in 29.73 seconds. SA’s Olympic […]

For weeks, South Africa suffered crippling levels of power cuts throughout the country. In some areas, there would be no electricity for up to ten hours in a single day. But as Eskom ramped up the dreaded load shedding schedules, Cape Town kept its lights on for longer. Ahead of the Curve When the rest […]

Team SA is in action in 13 different sports on Saturday’s day two of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. There are medal expectations in the pool where Lara van Niekerk twice broke the Commonwealth Games record in the heats and the semi-final in the 50m breaststroke, while Pieter Coetze is fancied in […]

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has confirmed it has made multiple arrests after a group of armed men on Thursday evening attacked a production company which was shooting a music video at West Village mine dump outside Krugersdorp. The ten armed men also raped eight of the women, before robbing them of their belongings. […]