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Minister Buti Manamela just dropped another deregistration notice on Damelin, City Varsity, and ICESA City Campus after the Educor-owned schools kept missing deadlines for their annual reports and financial paperwork. The three private colleges are getting threatened with shutdown barely nine...

Officials are scrambling to stop Thabos Dam from completely eating it after weeks of nonstop rainfall pushed the wall to its breaking point near Bronkhorstspruit. Emergency crews are cutting drainage channels around the embankment to relieve pressure, and they have already moved people out of...

The Madlanga Commission dropped some absolutely horrifying footage showing EMPD officers torturing Emmanuel Mbense until he died, then messing with the crime scene to hide what went down. The videos reveal cops suffocating the 51-year-old dad from Brakpan with plastic bags while he begged for...

Julius Malema booted AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo out of the EFF after the monarch took a trip to Israel and met with government officials there. The party leader went off during a press conference, saying anybody who buddies up with Israel while Gaza is getting wrecked cannot represent...

A massive truck wreck near Van Reenen Pass on the N3 westbound shut down lanes and left holiday travelers stuck for hours as recovery crews tried to clear the scene. The heavy vehicle went off the road before Key Ridge Truck Stop, and the backup stretched for kilometers with some drivers waiting...

South African prosecutors just froze over R12 million in stuff belonging to four alleged zama-zama kingpins after the Pretoria High Court signed off on the order. Chimene Mlambo got hit the hardest with 10 properties and 19 vehicles locked down, while Elias Christopher Ngobeni, Nason Ngobeni...

After years of delays, South African serial killer Hlabirwa Rassie Nkuna will finally stand trial for murdering Hillary Gardee and Nonkululeko Nkosi back in 2022. The 36-year-old already got slapped with two life sentences for killing his girlfriend and her cop sister, and he's facing a dozen...

Ekurhuleni dropped the hammer on HR chief Linda Gxasheka, putting her on immediate leave after some wild stuff came out at the Madlanga Commission hearings. Basically, she got accused of dragging her feet when it came to disciplining EMPD Deputy Chief Julius Mkhwanazi, even after an official...

South African authorities dropped a massive road safety blitz to combat drunk driving and speeding while everyone hits the highways for holiday travel. Transport Minister Barbara Creecy launched the latest phase at Maubane toll plaza on the N1, and cops are setting up checkpoints everywhere to...

A South African court convicted a farm owner and seven others for beating two men to death back in 2020 after accusing them of cattle theft near Mkhondo. Werner Potgieter and his stepson, Cornelius Greyling, got nailed along with six workers for killing Sifiso Thwala and Musa Nene, who were just...

Leaders from the Afrikaner town of Orania flew to Washington and met with Trump-adjacent Republicans to pitch autonomy and ask for investment cash instead of refugee deals. Joost Strydom and his crew talked up their volkstaat dream while trying to score funding for housing and infrastructure...

A South African judge shut down prosecutors trying to appeal the acquittal of Nigerian preacher Timothy Omotoso and two church workers after a trial that lasted years on trafficking and sexual assault charges. Judge Irma Schoeman said the state completely botched its case by failing to properly...

A four-story temple extension came crashing down near Durban and buried construction workers, plus possibly a pastor, under massive piles of concrete and steel beams. Teams pulled seven people out alive from the River Range Ranch site in Verulam while confirming two deaths, and rescuers are...

A small Free State town is hosting 32 squads from around the country for a nine-day grassroots soccer competition that kicks off this weekend at the Mandela Sports Ground in Tumahole. The Edgar Legoale Foundation runs the whole thing, and foundation manager Nthabiseng Molejane said the seventh...

The African National Congress held its 5th National General Council after getting hammered in elections and dealing with terrible approval numbers, where roughly four out of five South Africans think the country is heading in the wrong direction. Party leaders admitted things are looking grim...

Sanyang is throwing its first big community meeting to talk about development plans and getting everyone on the same page about making the town better. Abdoulie Sallah Fatty from the diaspora group said bringing locals together under one organization helps push projects forward faster, and they...

A Banjul judge just tossed out Abdoulie Sanyang's attempt to dodge criminal charges and told him he needs to mount an actual defense against arson and messing with court proceedings. Justice Jaiteh said prosecutors built enough of a case after bringing in six witnesses and dropping audio plus...

Energy Minister Nani Juwara told lawmakers that The Gambia is pushing to get electricity to every corner of the country before 2027 hits, and a bunch of villages in Jarra West, like Darussalam and Saraseti, are getting wired up through the ECOREAP program. Surveys wrapped up, contracts got...

SOS Children's Villages just kicked off a European Union-backed program in The Gambia that teaches people how to make money from organic fertilizer while keeping families together. Fatou Le Jallow said the group has been around for over 43 years, doing way more than housing kids, and the new...

The Gambian government blamed port congestion for the cement shortage, but that explanation is complete garbage, according to critics who say Adama Barrow just handed Jah Oil a near-monopoly to reward political connections. The Ministry of Trade and Jah Oil both claimed that docking restrictions...