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Whatever next? Our dear old 'Juju' is ready to reboot his political career. Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema wants to start his own new political party, or something like that.

The leader of South Africa's opposition, Helen Zille, will be in London next week to give South Africans abroad an "insider's view" on the importance of next year's general elections in SA.

To meet new DA supporters and to hang out with volunteers, the DA Abroad are hosting their third Blue Blitz day on Saturday, 8 June at B Bar. The event starts at 11am.

Singapore Airlines has signed a memorandum of co-operation (MoC) with Changi Airport Group and South African Tourism to promote travel to South Africa.

A Banana Republic is a political term for a country with a large, impoverished working class ruled by a wealthy elite, which normally controls much of the military, some important business and almost all of the political powers. Often, the term is also used to describe a dictatorship that supports...

There's an Afrikaans saying: 'Daar is nie pille vir domgeit nie.' (You cannot find medication for stupidity). This must certainly be the case when we have a closer look at the bunch of people in charge of SA Express Airways.

In more chapters of police brutality from the Banana Republic (how many have we seen over the past few months?) a man has told how police officers assaulted him with a baseball bat after he allegedly refused to pay a bribe after his car was stopped for an alleged traffic...

Vote for the ANC? Me? Not again!

Bloody hell. We always suspected these guys were a tad corrupt but this takes the Mickey. Some of South Africa's border officials are making mare than R100,000 a day!

Trade union Solidarity urged Cosatu to take a stand in court on affirmative action.

And throw away the keys. That is what would happen if former ANC Youth League president Julius Malema (Juju to his friends) was in charge of things in the Banana Republic.

We know our old Prez is somewhat of a bull-sh*tter in the way he has conned himself into South Africa's highest office.

Read this message from what we believe will and should be the future president of South Africa, Mamphela Ramphele, of the new Agang political movement:

  Website:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers_and_Socialist_Party The Workers and Socialist Party (WASP) is a South African political party founded on 18 December 2012 by the Democratic Socialist Movement (DSM) and mineworkers.  The party's official launch was on 21 March 2013, the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 and Human Rights Day, a South African public holiday.

New research into South Africa's super-rich reveals they aren't just wealthy, they are far wealthier than previously assumed. According to the TopEnd 2013 Survey into the country's most affluent individuals, almost 10% of these 'economic astronauts' have a household income of R500 000 or more a month, while 36% earn...

Nominations have opened for the seventh annual Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards, dubbed the "Oscars" (or "Inyathelos") of the South African philanthropy world.

CCTV footage has emerged showing an off-duty policeman beating and kicking an unarmed woman in full view of two uniformed colleagues.

South African mobile shopping app, PriceCheck, has been selected from all BlackBerry apps worldwide as one of three finalists for the coveted International BlackBerry App of the Year award.