The Police in Thohoyandou, Venda, arrested a 15-year-old schoolgirl who allegedly assaulted another learner -Lufuno Mavhunga who later died in an apparent suicide. The suspect is a learner at Mbilwi Secondary School in Thohoyandou. The incident, which was captured on video and went viral on social media on Monday, 12 April 2021, was reported to the police this morning. Mavhunga reportedly went home in the afternoon after being bullied by […]
SASSA South African Social Security Agency suspended thousands of temporary disability and care dependency grants around the country in December last year, due to their and the DSD’s (Department of Social Development) inadequate planning. Hundreds of applicants went to different SASSA locations around the country to reapply for these grants and to send other grant-related queries. SASSA CEO Tsotsie Memela was recently in conversation with Khaya Sithole during his show […]
Njabulo S. Ndebele, Stellenbosch University Imagine that during the COVID-19 lockdown South Africans woke up one morning to TV shows, radio broadcasts and pamphlets announcing a declaration by “white” South Africans: “WE ARE NO LONGER WHITE!” In their statement they explain why. They have come to a realisation that South Africa was the only real home they ever had. That they now felt at home in a country and continent […]
By Tunicia Jegels Residents of one of South Africa's oldest townships say they are hopeful that President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the failed state of municipalities. KayaNews visited Kliptown in Soweto where around 70 people were affected by the recent floods. Now Andre Kock has lived in the century-old neighborhood where the Freedom Charter was birthed since the early '70s. He says the government's heritage and tourist sites like Walter Sisulu […]
By David O'Sullivan As we mark the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from jail, I remembered that on this day 30 years ago it poured with rain in Joburg. It was a Sunday, and I was in Soweto outside Mandela’s little house on Vilakazi Street. That was a crazy weekend. I was working at Capital Radio, where we had been anticipating Mandela’s release ever since the unbanning of the […]
By Tunicia Phillips An overlooked victory at the widely criticized CoP25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain earlier this month; was a resolution to enhance the Gender Action Plan (GAP) over the next five years. While countries failed to reach an agreement on important decisions that will ultimately affect millions of climate-vulnerable people, they agreed – at least on paper, to enhance plans to improve gender inclusivity in climate change-related activities. […]
By Tunicia Phillips As floods ravaged through parts of South Africa’s economic hubs and mop-up operations began in Kwa – Zulu Natal after a tornado hit the south coast, South Africa’s environment minister, Barbara Creecy landed in a bustling Madrid, Spain to lead a continental fight for renewed support to address the impact of global warming at the Conference of the Parties (CoP) 25. As my daily off – record […]
South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers the mid-term budget statement at parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, 24 October 2018. EPA/Nic Bothma Seán Mfundza Muller, University of Johannesburg Over the past decade South Africa’s public finances have come under more and more strain. The days when the economy was growing and former finance minister Trevor Manuel brought baskets of fruit to parliament have been replaced by declines in the size […]