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Maria Louw came out tops in the first round of the inaugural Spring seven-a-side high school rugby series that kicked off on Friday last week at the Luvuyo Lerumo sports fields. The schools participating in this series run by the Phulutho…
On Wednesday night I happened to tune in to etv Channel 194 and ended up watching Checkpoint. The issue that was covered were the killings of 11 elderly people by an unknown person or persons in a very short period of time at Ezingqolweni…
South Africa is truly a country full of possibilities. Anything can happen on any given day. These next few days to the municipal elections in 16 days’ time will turn out to be the most interesting in our young democracy. There is…
Little did I know when I saw a Facebook post by the Enoch Mgijima Municipality that they would be opening a sports stadium at Lesseyton that I would be walking into an intense media storm. I have been keeping tabs on the progress of that…
In keeping with the heritage theme during the Heritage Month of September, I thought I should ponder about names people give others or to their children whether theirs or somebody else’s. Names can also be given to non-humans like dogs,…
Now that all the legal challenges are a thing of the past, it is now full speed ahead towards the local government elections on November 1. The local government elections, compared to the national and provincial ones, have the greatest…
When I googled the meaning of the word, this is what I got: “Heritage is the full range of our inherited traditions, monuments, objects, and culture. Most important, it is the range of contemporary activities, meanings and behaviours that…
As we close yet another Women’s Month we are still reeling from another senseless murder of a woman by a man. What makes this one even more shocking is the gruesome manner in which Aluta Pasile, the murder accused, went about things after…
Do you feel, that as a parent and a pupil, the education department and, by extension, school managements, have a proper handle on the Covid-19 situation in the schools? Do you have absolute confidence that they have a well-considered…
Cogta minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma proclaimed on August 3 that October 21 was the date for the local elections to take place. She did this, fully aware of the recommendation of the Moseneke Inquiry set up by the IEC to investigate…
If you woke up this morning and were told you had access to a portion of your retirement fund or pension what would your response be? Would you see this as a solution to your money problems or a recipe for disaster? As things stand a…
Whenever I walk into any shop, office or filling station around Komani, I bump into someone I have taught or have taught his relative and so on. Some are security guards, petrol attendants, tellers at supermarkets, office workers and so…
Amid the pandemic no one stops to think about what all this is doing to the health workers who are in the front lines. Who has stopped to think about the well-being of those thousands who have been taking care of us and our loved ones in…
Compared with other well-established democracies around the world and even on the continent, South Africa is a young country. Our country is only 26 years old and in human terms that is still a young woman, a woman who is still…
The auditor general (AG), Tsakani Maluleke, has released the 2019/20 audit outcomes of municipalities – it made grim reading. R26 billion of irregular expenditure. R5.5 billion given to 22 municipalities could not be accounted for – it…
