FILE | Former ANCYL Secretary Sindiso Magaqa. The ruling in the bail application of former Umzimkhulu municipal manager, Zweliphansi Sikohosana, in the Sindiso Magaqa murder case, will be handed down on the 23rd of September. Magaqa, who was a councillor and former African National Congress ANC Youth League secretary general, was shot in 2017. He…
Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt has said he will appeal his two-week ban for shoving a doping control official and criticised the process for a “lack of facts”. Hewitt was charged in January for engaging in offensive conduct towards a doping control official after he pushed a 60-year-old volunteer anti-doping chaperone following Australia’s semi-final loss to…
File image | Dr Nandipha Magudumana appears in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein. Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s attorney Dinana Reid has expressed disappointment that they lost the High Court bid to prevent Netflix from flighting the ‘Beauty and the Bester’ Documentary. Magudumana and her partner, convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester, launched an urgent…
Onlookers at the site of an accident in Pietermaritzburg involving scholar transport. Another crash involving scholar transport has left three learners with minor injuries in the same area where five learners lost their lives in Thursday’s crash at Imbali township in Pietermaritzburg. Five learners aged between 11 and 15 died and nine others were seriously injured…
FILE | Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magudumana appear in the Free State High Court. Thabo Bester and Dr Nandipha Magudumana have lost their bid to block the airing of the Netflix documentary ” Beauty and the Bester”. The couple accused of a brazen escape at the Mangaung prison in the Free State launched an urgent…
[File Image] Proteas win against England in London. After having beaten England 2-1 in the three-match One Day International series, the South African men’s cricket team will want to replicate those performances in the T20 International series against its host. The Proteas are still not firing on all cylinders in the shortest format of the…
Anti-Apartheid activist, Steve Biko. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will on Friday enrol the reopening of the inquest into the death of anti-Apartheid activist and Black Consciousness Movement founder and leader, Steve Biko. Biko died 48 years ago on the 12th of September 1977 after he was allegedly tortured by the then apartheid regime. A…
Team South Africa relay team member Bayanda Walaza South African sprinter Bayanda Walaza has been withdrawn from the national team for the World Athletics Championships starting in Tokyo this weekend. Following a comprehensive medical evaluation, Athletics South Africa has determined that Walaza’s hamstring injury, sustained during his race at the Diamond League Final in Zurich…
The annual Umkhosi Womhlanga ceremony, also known as the Reed Dance is growing from strength to strength according to KwaZulu-Natal Arts and Culture MEC Mntomuhle Khawula. Led by the daughter of King Misuzulu Zwelithini, Princess Tensindiso, thousands of maidens have entered the gates of the eMashobeni Palace at Pongola. The second half of the maidens…
The body of missing pilot Andrew Blackwood-Murray may have washed up on the Durban beachfront on Friday night, according to the police. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson – Robert Nesthiunda, says an unidentified body in a flight suit was found on the edge of the water at Bay of Plenty beach. Blackwood-Murray’s light plane crashed into the…
