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Will Ramaphosa flirt with Shakira?

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, today (Tuesday, 17 January) to lead South Africa’s delegation to the World Economic Forum annual meeting. One of the speakers he might bump into is Shakira, the Colombian singer who performed the theme song to South Africa’s Soccer World Cup - 'Waka...

St Albans prison deaths to be probed

The DA says it is deeply concerned by reports that three inmates have been killed and others  critically injured at the St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth. The party will request that the Department conduct a full and thorough investigation into the events that led to this death and injury.

What Parliament heard about the SABC…

Members of the SABC parliamentary Ad Hoc committee this week heard shocking evidence of the going ons at the South African Broadcorping Castration - having to sit for up to 12 hours a day to hear testimony from witnesses describing a deep set of rot and complete collapse of good...

Afrikaans gets kick in balls in High Court

Afrikaans as language of education got a huge kick in the bollocks when the North Gauteng High Court rejected minority rights groups AfriForum, AfriForum Youth and labour movement Solidarity’s application to prevent the University of Pretoria to phase out Afrikaans as medium of tuition next year (2017).

High Court kicks cloudy Hlaudi for touch

The South African Broadcorping Castration’s (SABC) self-styled Fuhrer - ‘cloudy’ Hlaudi Motsoeneng is out on the street looking for work after the Western High Court ruled that his appointment to the SABC is not only unlawful but that he should not hold any position whatsoever at the public broadcaster.

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