Sunday World News Updates

By Mthunzi Mdwaba For years, I have warned against South Africa’s policy implementation failures. We are having to grapple with all the consequences of this failure on so many levels. The World Bank has recently proclaimed itself a BEE (black economic empowerment) expert and then lumps BEE together with what… Read more »

Trust the palookas at Safa to do everything in their power to be that proverbial fly in the ointment even if there is no need for any such drama. Our national football teams have been doing pretty well despite the incompetent lot marching to failed mayor Danny Jordaan’s drumbeat at… Read more »

The SA Football Association (Safa) faces another scandal with eight clubs from the Gauteng Sasol Women’s League claiming the association owes them over R1-million in unpaid grant and prize money. The revelations contained in a letter addressed to the federation come in a week in which Safa announced it had… Read more »

Two members of a stokvel in Potchefstroom have been arrested for stealing more than half a million from the club. Police arrested Benjamin Mogotsi (51) and Constance Motaung (50) on Wednesday March 26. The pair appeared in the Rustenburg Magistrate’s Court the next day. The court granted both R5 000… Read more »

Former president Jacob Zuma was politically correct to shun the Zondo commission, a decision that resulted in his imprisonment after the Constitutional Court sent him there. This is according to the outspoken Adv Muzi Sikhakhane SC, who represented Zuma during his application seeking to have the commission’s chairperson, retired Chief… Read more »

Acclaimed television actress and executive producer Sonia Mbele has claimed to have called off her secret engagement to her former significant other because of his bad habits. This after she dumped her other boyfriend, a businessman after he got married because she did not want to be his sultana. Both… Read more »

Four ministers of government of national unity (GNU) appear to have shunned an event organised to discuss the danger of pesticides that killed several school kids and left farm workers sick. Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, environment minister Dion George, and labour minister Nomakhosazana… Read more »

Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe ‘s second attempt to appoint his chief of staff has suffered a blow after the new candidate he recommended for the post was rejected due to lack of the required experience. Mantashe, who is also the national chairperson of the ANC, had… Read more »

Radio mogul Given Mkhari has fired a broadside against hard-bitten television host JJ Tabane, calling him a “thief”, “a boy” and “a fool”. Mkhari hurled the abusive epithets at the prodigious television host on a WhatsApp group called “Open Politics” on Monday last week. The businessman, who owns Gauteng talk… Read more »

Atlanta authorities in the United States have revealed the tragic news of the death of hip hop star Young Scooter, on his birthday. Police said the rapper succumbed to injuries sustained when he jumped over two fences running from police on Friday.  City of Atlanta police spokesperson Andrew Smith announced… Read more »