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In Act III, Scene II of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Queen Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, remarks: ”The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” It suggests that someone who is strongly denying something is hiding the truth.

More bad news for those putting their life savings into digital money.

Britain’s newly engaged Prince Harry has been appointed as African Parks’ new president.

The Democratic Alliance says it is appalled - but not particularly surprised - at Jacob Zuma’s decision to appeal the unanimous full bench judgment of Gauteng North High Court rejecting his earlier application to review and set aside the Public Protector’s remedial action in the State of Capture report.

Renowned international rights group Amnesty International has chosen South African civil society leader, anti-apartheid campaigner and life-long activist Kumi Naidoo as the organisation’s next Secretary General. 

The ANC’s decision to amend South Africa’s Constitution to allow expropriation op land without compensation boils down to a decision to commit plain and common theft, something the ANC and its former President Jacob Zuma is not really unfamiliar with.

The election of Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC President is too little too late for the ANC, and means very little for the people of South Africa who have been left behind in poverty and joblessness.

Criminal charges were laid against both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of South African state-owned weapons manufacturer Denel after alleged financial mismanagement.

Another of South Africa’s state-owned entities - this time weapons manufacturer Denel - is in the dwang. It is so bad that it might nog be able to pay its employees their December salaries.

The scandal surrounding “accounting irregularities” at Steinhoff International Holdings N.V. may be one of the biggest corporate scandals in the history of South Africa.

The Springboks’ Castle Lager Rugby Championship home fixtures for 2018 were confirmed today with matches scheduled for Pretoria, Durban and Port Elizabeth.

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It seems like the Sino-Japanese rivalry is once again heated up as China and Japan find their new battleground in Africa - jostling for influence through developments and summits amounting to billions of dollars. In 2016, Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe pledged 30 billion dollars as support for the African...

No more traffic cops behind trees, trying to catch you unawares.

Violence against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community is most common in the Eastern Cape Province and black LGBT people are twice as likely as white LGBT people to know of someone being murdered on these grounds.

Despite farmers being under attack from government and farm murders in South Africa, the total income earned in the agriculture and related services industry rose to R277,6 billion last year  compared with R250,2 billion in 2015.

South Africa’s version of the Huffington Post - run by News24 - stumbles from one disaster to the next.

As South African president Jacob Zuma is looking at a R30 billion tax hike next year in a policy that can only be described as his ‘kak en betaal” approach, he needs to worry about a tax revolt coming from the hand full of hardworking South Africans who actually pay...

Just one result amid 14 draws in the first half of the Sunfoil Series, the postponement of the inaugural T20 Global League and a rather underwhelming response to the rescheduling of the Ram Slam T20 Challenge has placed substantial pressure on the Momentum One Day Cup. While the T20 Challenge...

We told you here on this website that judge Thokozile Masipa did not know her left hand from a toilet door in first judging on and then sentencing Oscar Pistorius for murder.

A house for one man under ANC rule has been sold to build houses for more than 200 people under DA rule.

Bob is not your uncle anymore. It’s over for for the Zim dictator.

Friday will indeed be a black Friday for South Africa if the country’s economy is downgraded.

Yet another Round of Bad News for the Rand Over the last week, the rand has continued to weaken. There are several factors at play here including the unexpected stories concerning Jacob Zuma’s plan to offer free education and the news that Eskom appears to have run out of cash....

AfriForum will instituted legal action to privately prosecute Adv. Nomgcobo Jiba, former acting Director and current Deputy Director of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), on charges of fraud and perjury.

Not that we really care but Zimbabwe’s dictator for almost 40 years is apparently fine and speaking his partner in crime a tad further south in Africa, Jacob Zuma, on the telephone and apparently complaining that he is being confined to his house. 

South Africa’s national carrier, South African Aircraze (SAA), is by far the worst of all of South Africa’s mismanaged and struggling state institutions, says a fresh research report produced by the Solidarity Research Institute (SRI).

The people who have funded President Jacob Zuma’s legal game to avoid being charged for fraud, corruption and racketeering - read taxpayers - have no idea how much they have been throwing in the sea on the top man’s behalf.

“Kak en betaal”, that’s what the former SABC chief induna Hlaudi (Heil Nitler) Motsoeneng will inevitable have to do.

South Africa's economic growth is fast being flushed down a toilet and not even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has much hope that matter will improve. 

Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw and NB Publishers warned the State Security Agency (SSA) that should they try to prevent the further publishing and circulation of Pauw’s bestselling book about Jacob Zuma’s dirty tricks, they will seek a punitive cost order against the government agency.