Now, some coaches in the DStv Premiership have taken aim at Mamelodi Sundowns’ success, saying it is all down to the wealth of the club’s owner, billionaire Patrice Motsepe. Motsepe has since left all of Masandawana’s duties and appointed his…
Arriving at the University of Durban-Westville in the early 1990s with an interest in the left, I was immediately plugged into a heady environment that continued through much of the decade. Figures such as Phyllis Naidoo and John Daniel from…
American reality television star and social media colossus Kim Kardashian has bought the Attallah Cross, an amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn on many occasions by Princess Diana, according to auction house Sotheby’s. The piece, made in the 1920s by…
Thousands of climate advocates and environmental organizations around the world rallied around the #BeatShell hashtag to call on the public to contribute to a citizen’s court case against Shell. In 2021, tens of thousands of Dutch citizens took one of…
The Proteas will go into the crucial one-day series against England without three of their top run-scorers in the domestic 50-over competition this season, and Ryan Rickelton, in particular, must feel like an unwanted man at national level. South Africa’s…
While it may have been a shock to see Rafael Nadal kicked out of the Australian Open on Wednesday, the reality is that it shouldn’t come as a surprise. The real shock came last year when he punched above his…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a global progressive political figure, stunned the country on Thursday by announcing she would step down from office within weeks. The 42-year-old – who has led the country through natural disasters, the Covid pandemic…
Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) may take control of the City of Ekurhuleni and the ANC return to the City of Joburg. That is if the plan by the opposition party in the two metros succeeded. Discussions are underway…
Tigers are not animals. It cannot be said more clearly than this. But, for some inexplicable reason, people insist on keeping it. A three-day hunt after a leopard escaped a private farm in the south of Johannesburg culminated in the…
Every time he brags about relocating the city center in Arctic Sweden, Kiruna mayor Gunnar Selberg gets a replacement from a disgruntled citizen: his wife. “I told him, ‘Can you imagine? To be part of it! We are building a…