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Fikile Mbalula's brother lands top job as MEC in Free State
African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula's brother Jabu has been named the MEC for Community Safety, Roads and Transport in the Free State. Jabu was named among the new...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 16:03hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 11 | by Thula Bopela
Zimbabwe man arrested in South Africa over Thabo Bester escape
A ZIMBABWEAN man has been arrested in South Africa in connection with the escape of Thabo Bester from a South African prison.According to the South African media, the man's identity was not re...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thabo Bester's R3,5m Mercedes still stuck in Beitbridge
THE Mercedes Benz worth at least R3,5 million that is understood to have been used by captured South African murder convict and escapee Thabo Bester is still stuck at Beitbridge Border Post after it w...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Dr Nandipha and father's picture go viral
A picture collage of murder accused Dr Nandipha Magudumana's and her father and a former G4S employee who allegedly helped Facebook rapist Thabo Bester escape from the Mangaung Correctional Cent...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 13:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dr Nandipha left Merc at Zimbabwe border, returned on foot
As South African law enforcement continues the search for fugitive murderer-rapist Thabo Bester - known as the "Facebook rapist" - and his accomplice girlfriend Dr Nandipha Magudumana, more informatio...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wanted SA rapist Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe?
Thabo Bester skipped the country to Zimbabwe to lay low after escaping from the Mangaung maximum security prison where he allegedly paid R5 million to at least nine prison warders who helped him escap...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 16:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe -SA frosty relations hit new low
RELATIONS between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa continue to deteriorate amid growing anger in the neighbouring country over the immigration crisis at a...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Consulate introduces mobile consular exercise in South Africa
The Consulate wishes to inform Zimbabwe nationals resident in Free State Province, South Africa that it will conduct a consular visit to Mangaung (Bloemfontein) from 30 August to 1 September 2022, at ...Published: 31 Aug 2022 at 08:07hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's ANC adopts populist politics ahead of polls
SOUTH Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) is moving to left wing politics in a populist bid to garner votes in the 2024 elections, which explains the party's newly adopted stance agains...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa a Fisher of Men, of Mwonzora and Fissures of Men
The African National Congress went into the Mangaung congress in 2012 deeply wounded because of consistent corruption scandals by figures in the national leadership. Jacob Zuma's political stock had d...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 15:32hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Chamisa a Fisher of Men, of Mwonzora and Fissures of Men
The African National Congress went into the Mangaung congress in 2012 deeply wounded because of consistent corruption scandals by figures in the national leadership. Jacob Zuma's political stock had d...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 12:11hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Ramaphosa using ANC integrity commission to purge Zuma loyalists
The ANC is at odds about the status of its integrity commission rulings, with some members arguing that the structure is used to settle factional scores.The matter was among the dominant subje...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 15:19hrs | | by City Press
Jacob Zuma refutes poisoning claims
President Jacob Zuma is not aware of any threats on his life from poisoning due to his stance on radical economic transformation or because of South Africa's decision to join Brics, after telling supp...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 01:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whites planned for the time when Africans would rise up against them
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 14:57hrs | | by Thula Bopela
What a White Man Told Me in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 20:25hrs | 67 | by Thula Bopela
Raped girl's spirit haunts father
Simon Segola has said the last time he got good sleep was in October 2006 before his 14-year-old daughter was held hostage and raped for two weeks.Daily Sun reported that the 56-year-old fathe...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Shop woman shuts boy into a fridge
A woman from Mangaung in South Africa allegedly grabbed a boy and locked him inside a refrigerator after he saw a kak thrown outside the shop and went to pick it.Daily Sun reported that ...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Woman scalds hubby with boiling spinash
A WOMAN reportedly poured a pot of boiling spinach on her husband on Sunday afternoon – because he didn’t bring home money from work!Daily Sun reported that the 40-year-old wife was furiou...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mbeki sues Mail & Guardian for R20 million
SOUTH AFRICA - Political analyst and brother of former president Thabo Mbeki, Moeletsi Mbeki, is claiming R20 million from the Mail & Guardian newspaper following two articles he said were "wrongf...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 14:30hrs | | by Zelda Venter | Pretoria News |
Car hits fighting hookers!
THE one woman had memeza, the other didn't and so a fight broke out.So furious was the fight that it took the women into the middle of the road and now the memeza won't help either of them....Published: 05 May 2015 at 14:07hrs | | by Daily Sun
ANC MPs plotting to oust Zuma - report
Some ANC MPs are plotting to oust President Jacob Zuma, according to the ruling party's chairperson Baleka Mbete, ...Published: 13 Apr 2015 at 15:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC wants Malema back
Battle lines in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have been drawn, with renewed claims that party leader Julius Malema is in talks with the ANC for a return to his former political home.High...Published: 20 Jan 2015 at 11:35hrs | | by Citizen Reporters
'Nothing beats my magic panty!' says prostitute
A 30-year-old prostitute from Mangaung, SA, says she upstages young rivals because no man can resist the power of her magic panty.The woman said business used to be hard because men only wante...Published: 23 Nov 2014 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's Grace Mugabe versus Mujuru
AS the succession race, which appears like a dead heat reaches its climax ahead of the Zanu-PF congress in December in which Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction is going for broke plotting ...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 09:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
The five richest black South Africans - and their politics
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe claims that South Africans assume that if a black person makes it, they are either corrupt or linked to the ANC.We have taken a look at the five richest bl...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 09:19hrs | | by Bruce Gorton
South Africa's radical Zimbabwe-style economic plan
Johannesburg - Local mining houses may be forced to give up 49 percent of their companies to blacks if the Gauteng ANC's plans to table a policy proposal that recommends Zimbabwe-style ownership laws ...Published: 11 Aug 2014 at 11:08hrs | | by Mogomotsi Magome
Mbeki's mother dies
Johannesburg - Former South Africa president Thabo Mbeki's 98-year-old mother Epainette has died, the SABC reported on Saturday.The Mbeki family confirmed that Epainette had died at a private...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 08:34hrs | | by Sapa
Zanu-PF predicts a resounding ANC election victory
The Zanu-PF National Chairman, Simon Khaya Moyo says he is optimistic that South Africa's ruling ANC party will win Wednesday election resoundingly.South Africans go to the polls...Published: 06 May 2014 at 17:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC accused of buying votes
Bloemfontein - A South African political party, Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Free State on Wednesday accused premier Ace Magashule of buying votes for the ANC through distributing title deeds....Published: 30 Apr 2014 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Muammar Gaddafi's missing billions found in South Africa
The hunt for slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's missing billions has moved to South Africa, where a fortune in cash, gold and diamonds is believed to be stashed.The Sunday Times has estab...Published: 03 Jun 2013 at 03:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa minister 'honoured' by Zimbabwe comparison
It is an "honour" to have South Africa's land reform process compared to what happened in Zimbabwe, South Africa's Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti told MPs on Friday."[President Robert] M...Published: 31 May 2013 at 13:39hrs | | by Sapa
Zuma's wife loses uninsured jewellery
Johannesburg - Thobeka Madiba-Zuma, the fifth wife of South African President Jacob Zuma, is claiming compensation of half a million rand from SA Airlink after uninsured jewellery apparently disappea...Published: 07 May 2013 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fallacy of Zanu-PF's unity accord
Zanu-PF has been fooling the public for a long time, especially citizens of Matabeleland and Midlands about the Unity Accord. We believe it is time to come out strongly in defence of the truth once an...Published: 05 Feb 2013 at 09:36hrs | | by Luke Sayi Director of Information and Publicity, ZAPU Diaspora Region
'Motlanthe's position in government secure,' says Zuma
PRETORIA - President Jacob Zuma has dismissed concerns that his deputy in government, Kgalema Motlanthe, will leave his post following his failed bid for the African National Congress (ANC) presidenc...Published: 15 Jan 2013 at 05:51hrs | | by BDLive
Mugabe plans to outsmart Zuma ahead of 2013 election
As Zimbabwe gears up for elections later this year, Robert Mugabe's opponents are welcoming the re-election of South African president Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC. Unlike his predecessor Thabo Mbe...Published: 07 Jan 2013 at 12:48hrs | | by Blessing-Miles Tendi I guardian.co.uk
Mangaung: Critical lessons for ZANU-PF as Zuma issues veil warning to Mugabe and his friends
The much awaited 53rd African National Congress National Elective Conference has come and gone. As an observer at the conference in Mangaung, I was impressed by the way the conference went and how de...Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 07:11hrs | | by Mathula Lusinga
Adam Ndlovu is a true national hero says Mpofu
FOOTBALL legend Adam Ndlovu is a true national hero because of his exploits on the soccer field and contribution to the development of football in the country, Zanu-PF politburo member, Dr O...Published: 23 Dec 2012 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zuma wins ANC leadership contest
The ANC announced the results of its leadership elections at its national elective conference at the University of the Free State campus in Mangaung on Tuesday afternoon.President Jacob Zuma ...Published: 18 Dec 2012 at 11:00hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Seven Zimbabwean armed robbers arrested in South Africa
Seven Zimbabweans have been arrested for armed robbery in South Africa. Two of the Zimbabweans shot a father who was awakened by the screams of his daughter who surprised the robbers in their house, ...Published: 23 Aug 2012 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
After Two Days - THE PROPHECY
Tuesday 14 August 2012, I read an article in the Daily Sun newspaper (South Africa). The article was titled; Credo the Prophet has spoken - and he is very fearful - MZANSI WILL BURN! It depicts th...Published: 19 Aug 2012 at 09:27hrs | 5 | by Justice Maphosa
Reason why Malema was invited to UK
EXPELLED ANC youth league president Julius Malema is seen as a genuine advocate for the economic emancipation of the African people. This is according to Conrad Mwanza, a representative of a UK-based...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 09:03hrs | | by Olebogeng Molatlhwa I Sowetanlive
We will removing Zuma from power in December says Malema
London - Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has said that he together with others are going to remove current president Jacob Zuma from power in December.Speaking from London, Mal...Published: 02 Aug 2012 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malema blasts ANC leaders
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ANC told to stop using Mandela family for some agendas
ANC veteran Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has accused the ruling party of hurting the Mandela family, saying "We only matter when we have to be used for some agenda".In a letter to ANC spokesman J...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T tried to force accreditation at the ANC policy conference
The MDC-T tried to force its accreditation at the ANC Policy Conference in South Africa last Tuesday, arguing that it should have been allowed to attend the conference on GPA grounds since Zanu-PF was...Published: 02 Jul 2012 at 04:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo receives loudest applause at ANC policy conference
Professor Jonathan Moyo received one of the loudest applause when he turned up for the ANC's policy conference at Gallagher Estate in Midrand on Tuesday June 26 2012. Just after 12:14pm in t...Published: 26 Jun 2012 at 11:02hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Zuma told to sit down and listen
SOUTH AFRICAN President Jacob Zuma must sit down and listen to other people and not stand in the way of new ideas.This is the latest message from Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale who ...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 16:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ignore Malema at your peril - South Africans told
Johannesburg - Political activist Pieter-Dirk Uys on Monday warned South Africans to not ignore suspended ANCYL president Julius Malema."Every single thing he said... we may not ignore, and w...Published: 24 Apr 2012 at 05:25hrs | | by Sapa
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