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Man arrested for helping migrants enter South Africa illegally for just R300
A man has been arrested at the Beitbridge border post for aiding undocumented migrants cross into South Africa for just R300.The Border Management Authority (BMA) on Monday said the man from S...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:43hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Heavy rains 'restrict' cross border smuggling
SOUTH AFRICA Border Management Authority (BMA) says although four of its border gates remain closed due to flooding, the weather phenomenon actually serves as a natural deterrent to illegal crossings ...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 10:36hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean gold syndicate kingpin accused of acquiring fake South African ID
AN investigation into illicit gold mining has uncovered how one of the accused obtained a fraudulent identity document, 12 years after arriving in South Africa.The home affairs officer probing...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:29hrs | 10302 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwean accused in gold syndicate acquired SA ID
An investigation into illicit gold mining has uncovered how one of the accused obtained a fraudulent identity document, 12 years after arriving in SA.The home affairs officer probing the case ...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 07:41hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean migrants flee Dudula raids in Soweto
A STREET trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall.For about 30 minutes,...Published: 24 Aug 2024 at 11:44hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners flee as Dudula raids Soweto spazas
A street trader ran into her house and locked herself inside and watched in trauma while a group of people wearing Operation Dudula T-shirts ransacked her vegetable stall in Soweto, Johannesburg, Sout...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 15:30hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
South African beauty contestant faces xenophobic backlash over Nigerian heritage
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student from Soweto, has recently found herself at the epicentre of a heated national debate, exposing a persistent strain of xenophobia within South African soci...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:31hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
'Ideologically bankrupt' Ramaphosa's ANC in a governance tailspin
To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement.Never has the party with a majority of votes fou...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwean woman tortured by SA police gunned down outside court
A couple gunned down outside a court in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 8 have been named as Zimbabweans Sicelubuhle Moyo and her partner Wilfred Dube.Moyo, who worked as a domestic wo...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 11:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
SABC show goes to Zimbabwe
Humour, friendship and a bit of "organised chaos" are the ingredients that have kept Umhlobo Wenene FM's iBreakfast Eyondlayo Ekuseni (BEE) going and made it Mzansi's second biggest radio show on SABC...Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 22:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Katsande tells Khama Billiat to leave Kaizer Chiefs
KAIZER Chiefs legend Willard Katsande feels the timing is right for his "boy" Khama Billiat and Amakhosi to end their five-year marriage."Khama is my boy and my boy is a good boy. Obviously th...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:13hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Warriors players celebrate return to Fifa family
FORMER Warriors and Highlanders FC defender Bruce Kangwa has been watching the unfolding drama between Sport and Recreation Commission (SRC) and FIFA concerning the return of Zimbabwe into the interna...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Billiat refuses to take salary cut at Kaizer Chiefs
FORMER Zimbabwe international Khama Billiat's future at South African glamour club Kaizer Chiefs is uncertain following reports that he has refused to take a salary cut.Billiat is currently a ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
This and that with Mal'phosa: Ngayende ngabude! What?
Malema is very crafty, just like that red fox, neh? He has outsmarted everyone this time around. He can hide behind load shedding, rise in crime, Phalaphalagate etc as reasons he wants Ramaphosa gone....Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 20:34hrs | 1 | by Clerk Ndlovu
Tito Mboweni's bank account raided by hackers
Former finance minister Tito Mboweni's bank account was raided by thieves who stole R19,000 from him on Saturday night.Mboweni confirmed this to Sowetan on Sunday, saying the money was taken f...Published: 03 Oct 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Platform One says Zimbabwe is second home as they lament bad treatment in SA
It was in 1992 at Pimville Square in Soweto when then teenagers Nani Tengo, Sonto Dladla and Neli Gwala, dressed in their Zulu maiden garb, danced while some passers-by looked on and others joined in ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa to be saved by manufactured evidence?
Ramaphosa has been mired in controversy after former spy boss Arthur Fraser laid criminal charges against him last week, emanating "from the theft of millions of US dollars, (reportedly more than $4m)...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 17:46hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula leader claims Zimbabweans attacked his group in Soweto
THE leader of South Africa's anti-immigration group, Operation Dudula, claims they were attacked on by Zimbabweans in Soweto's Kliptown informal settlements while looking for people linked with the st...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi tells Zimbabwean man to leave very peacefully
A man was thrown out of the meeting between the government and residents of Diepsloot as tempers flared soon after he introduced himself as a Zimbabwean communist party representative.Emotions...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man says he was saved from SA mob by speaking Sepedi
"Go diragalang? [what's happening?]" are the two words that saved a Zimbabwean man from being killed by a mob raiding homes of suspected illegal immigrants in Diepsloot on Wednesday night. The...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 12:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest members of Dudula Movement after clash with foreigners
South African police services have arrested four members of the Dudula Movement in Alexandra after Mondays' protracted fight against foreign workers in different malls by the extremist vig...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 10:09hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The sad story of Zimbabweans in SA
MOLTEN anger rolled through him as he beheld what was left of his small grocery enterprise.Windows were shattered, the door vandalised and several grocery items missing while the remaining few...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
South Africans thought they were better Africans than black Africa: Thanks Zuma has set the record straight
"All of us must thank Jacob Zuma for introducing African Republic of South Africa and not some outpost of European values." This comes from a Sowetan column sent to me by a friend. The article is an i...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 16:17hrs | 25 | by Nomazulu Thata
Khama Billiat faces another injury lay-off
KHAMA Billiat could be facing another lengthy spell on the sidelines, barely a few weeks after returning from another injury, following an admission by the Kaizer Chiefs head coach Gavin Hunt he does ...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean trucker narrowly escapes death after SA highway ambush
A Zimbabwean truck driver who survived an ambush by six gunmen on the N12 highway near Daveyton, on the East Rand, yesterday was just 35km from his destination when the attack happened.Joseph ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 08:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'The enemy is within the ANC,' says former intelligence chief
A group calling themselves "ANC cadres", led by a former chief of military intelligence, claims that the party faces a leadership crisis because the members of its higher echelons have credentials "no...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 21:25hrs | | by TimesLIVE
SA deports to Zimbabwe municipal manager with fake papers
The Rand West City municipality senior manager who was arrested for working in SA illegally has been deported to Zimbabwe.Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi's spokesperson Siya Qoza sai...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nengomasha's warning to Billiat
ZIMBABWE and Kaizer Chiefs legend, Tinashe Nengomasha, has warned his countryman Khama Billiat against leaving Amakhosi for north African clubs saying the midfielder should avoid a "Neymar-like stando...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
De Villiers fires salvo at ZRU after sacking
FORMER Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has lashed out at the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) after reports that he had been fired as the Sables' head coach. De Villiers was appointed Zimbabwe head coach ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:48hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
SA police still looking for dead Elliot Moyo
Amid reports that wanted alleged fraudster Elliot Moyo has died, Gauteng police on Monday said it had not received official confirmation that the man "resurrected" by pastor Alph Lukau is indeed no mo...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Wonders never cease
AFTER watching the-PFeesident's sidekick Victor Matemadanda's soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country. Things are ...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 18:10hrs | 2 | by Hon Criss
No repatriation papers for 'resurrected Zimbabwean' man
GOVERNMENT yesterday dismissed claims that a Zimbabwean man was "resurrected" by a controversial pastor in South Africa as his body was being brought home, saying no repatriation papers had been proce...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barry Roux to lead Bushiri defence team
Embattled prophet Shepherd Bushiri has acquired the services of top defence advocate Barry Roux, the Sowetan newspaper reported yesterday. According to the publication, Roux is expected to def...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why Dan Tshanda became Bulawayo's darling
WHILE he was never shy to talk about his roots, few knew that Dan Tshanda, the music legend and founder of the music movement known as Splash, was actually of Shona extraction from Zimbabwe.Th...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Bruce Ndlovu
SA professor killed after uncovering PhD fraud at KZN university
The killing of a university professor has shined a new light on long-whispered allegations that some South African universities have been dishing out fraudulent PhDs.South African police say t...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 16:17hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Family watches father's killing on WhatAapp
A FAMILY of a South Africa-based Zimbabwean security guard is reeling from the shock of witnessing his tragic last moments, as they stumbled on a viral video of his fatal shooting on social media....Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA students 'abandon difficult exam - and protest'
Students at a university in South Africa gave up on writing an exam - and starting protesting that it was too difficult, local media reports say.The incident happened during a philosophy exam ...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 15:37hrs | 1 | by BBC
Tendai Ndoro's 'fake' marriage
TENDAI Ndoro has claimed that a fake marriage certificate is at the centre of his assault case which is scheduled for trial in Benoni on the East Rand yesterday.The controversial footie, who h...Published: 09 Aug 2018 at 07:40hrs | | by SowetanLive
Ndoro had to go for peace's sake: Ertugral
Ajax Cape Town coach Muhsin Ertugral feels it was in the best interest of the club to part ways with striker Tendai Ndoro.The Zimbabwean marksman was released by the Mother City club after tum...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Sowetan
Court grants Ndoro bail
Soccer star Tendai Ndoro has been accused of assaulting his wife Thando. It seems Ndoro's marriage is crumbling just six months after he and Thando said "I do" in a traditional wedding in December....Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: From Ginimbi's $8k bill to slay queens' R37k unpaid bill
WONDERS will never cease.While Zimbabweans were amazed by an $8 000 bill for drinks that emanated from socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's nightclub in Harare at the weekend, in neighbourin...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Warriors star arrested in SA
Soccer player Tendai Ndoro reportedly spent the weekend behind bars, after his wife Thando laid charges of assault against himTendai and Thando traditionally tied the knot in December last yea...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Ndoro spends weekend behind bars
Soccer player Tendai Ndoro reportedly spent the weekend behind bars, after his wife Thando laid charges of assault against himTendai and Thando traditionally tied the knot in December last yea...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Byo24News Reporter
Zimbabwean woman assaulted by SA ex-minister Mduduzi Manana
Convicted woman beater Mduduzi Manana faces fresh allegations of assault, crimen injuria and intimidation after allegedly trying to push his domestic worker down the stairs of his double-storey Fourwa...Published: 07 May 2018 at 16:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ndoro not worried by Pirates protest
Ajax Cape Town striker Tendai Ndoro says he is unconcerned by Orlando Pirates' protest about his inclusion to play in Wednesday's 3-0 victory over the Buccaneers in the Absa Premiership.The Se...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by SowetanLIVE
Khama Billiat remains in limbo
South African football giants Mamelodi Sundowns could lose Percy Tau to Europe after reportedly receiving an R18 million bid for the services of attacker Percy Tau. According to Sowetanlive, Russian c...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahachi 'signs' for Orlando Pirates
ZIMBABWE Warriors' winger Kudakwashe Mahachi has reportedly signed for Sowetan giants Orlando Pirates and is expected to join his new teammates from Golden Arrows this week.The 24-year-old dri...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
ZCC call on its members to boycott Times Media newspapers
Sunday World reported earlier in the year that the ZCC leader was facing arrest for contempt of court and further and that church leaders in Botswana were accusing Lekganyane of violating an interim o...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 13:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Malajila want to stay at Wits
Wits coach Gavin Hunt says Mogakolodi Ngele and Cuthbert Malajila, on loan from Mamelodi Sundowns, want to remain with the league champions. The two are set to return to parent club Sundowns a...Published: 29 May 2017 at 13:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's Costly Political Gamble
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa might have shot himself in the foot when he publicly criticised President Jacob Zuma for dismissing finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas in a c...Published: 04 Apr 2017 at 10:38hrs | 2 | by Thabo Kunene
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