By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock It's quarter-to-festive season, and this means that most people have started their Christmas shopping and spending money entertaining family and friends at home. Whether you're hosting people for lunches or dinners, planning activities and outings with your kids, or going out, each swipe of your card adds up, and if you don't track your festive spending, come January, you may find yourself stuck eating […]
By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock Black Friday is a shopper's paradise as companies and brands mark down prices exorbitantly, internationally as well as locally. In South Africa, one online shopper already spent R600 000 the day before the official start of Black Friday 2023. This was confirmed by Ozow's payment platform, which tracked the Top 3 customers by amount spent and number of transactions. Joining Gugulethu Mfuphi on Kaya […]
By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock Hackers claiming to be behind the TransUnion cyber extortion last year say they are planning on leaking private financial data from South Africans unless they are paid R1.1 billion. Jan Vermeulen, Editor of MyBroadBand joins Sizwe Dhlomo on 959 Breakfast to share more. "A group calling themselves N4ughtySec, claim they've breached South Africa's major credit bureaus TransUnion and Experian, and that they've never left […]
By: Natasha Archary Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius / Twitter Oscar Pistorius will learn about his parole fate on Friday, 24 November after the Constitutional Court ruled that the paralympian was eligible for parole in March 2023. The convicted murderer who was initially sentenced to 6 years in 2014 for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, had his sentence increased to 13 years and 5 months in 2017. In October, Pistorius who […]
By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock Deputy President Paul Mashatile will be launching the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign on Saturday, 25 November. The launch is set to take place at the Nsikazi Stadium, Khumbula Village, Gutshwa, in the city of Mbombela, Mpumalanga. Launched by activists at the inauguration of the Women's Global Leadership Institute in 1991, the 16 Days of Activism campaign […]
By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock Gauteng police commissioner Elias Mawela has expressed concern over the phenomenon of multiple murders in the province. Mawela who released Gauteng's second quarter crime statistics for the 2023/24 financial year, said there was a 2.9% increase in murders in the province. In recent months there has been an increase in incidents where a number of people sitting in groups have been shot and killed. […]
By: Natasha Archary Image: Adobe Stock With the festive season approaching, South Africans have been warned to be on high alert for new ways criminals have adopted to target their victims. From using "distressed and helpless" women and children to manipulate female drivers at filling stations, before luring them into a hijacking or violent robbery, to creating an elaborate public scene just to distract you from focusing on your belongings. […]
By: Natasha Archary Thabiso Sikwane has shared some nuggets of advice about parenting after divorcing the father of her three children, DJ Fresh. Taking a few moments to herself after a long day, the award-winning broadcaster and author told mothers, especially those doing it all by themselves, to not be so hard on themselves, and advised fathers to be present and show up for their kids. Thabiso and DJ Fresh […]
By: Natasha Archary and Tsholofelo Tsoku Image: Tsholofelo Tsoku Kaya News The body of one of the two youngsters who were reportedly swept away in Olifantsvlei after a cleansing ritual has been retrieved on Wednesday, 22 November. Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to Kaya News Reporter, Tsholofelo Tsoku and Joburg EMS Spokesperson, Xolile Khumalo. Listen to the full conversation here: While forensic teams are yet to confirm the […]
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