The afterglow of the star-studded 2026 Grammy Awards has been abruptly eclipsed by a rapidly escalating legal and political drama, with comedian Trevor Noah at its center. The former Daily Show host and acclaimed South African comedian finds himself the target of a promised defamation lawsuit from former U.S. President Donald Trump, following a joke that aired…
The glittering heart of Los Angeles pulsed with a distinct South African rhythm tonight as Tyla, the 24-year-old phenom from Johannesburg, once again ascended the Grammy stage, not as a newcomer, but as a reigning force. In a stunning display of back-to-back brilliance, she clinched the Grammy for Best African Music Performance for the second…
A quiet has fallen over the main entrance of MultiChoice’s bustling Randburg headquarters—a silence that feels profound precisely because of the voice that now fills it only in memory. The sudden passing of David Sejobe, the front-house security officer whose warmth was as much a part of the campus as the iconic DStv satellite dish,…
The sun-baked highways of Gauteng have become the unlikely stage for a high-stakes political clash, where questions of public safety, legal authority, and electoral strategy collide. At the centre stands the figure of the traffic warden—the Amapanyaza—newly anointed as a Peace Officer, and now, just as swiftly, transformed into a political pawn. The Democratic Alliance’s announcement…
The sudden, jarring ping of a WhatsApp notification cut through the evening quiet of Phakamile Hlubi-Majola’s Johannesburg home. It was not from a colleague about tomorrow’s press briefing, nor a family check-in. The message was terse, clinical, and final: “Assassins have been hired. You are a target. Your time is up.” For a long moment, the seasoned…
In a sobering and at times tense parliamentary briefing that laid bare the fractures in South Africa’s economic foundations, lawmakers were presented with alarming evidence of rapid deindustrialisation, systemic policy failures, and a looming social crisis driven by vanishing factories and jobs. The Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition heard detailed testimony from economists,…
In a landmark ruling that has brought closure to a protracted and closely-watched judicial proceeding, Eastern Cape Division of the High Court Judge President, Selby Mbenenge, has been exonerated on all charges of gross misconduct. The judicial conduct tribunal, established to investigate allegations that threatened to unseat one of the country’s most senior judicial officers,…
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has launched a firm investigation and issued a stringent condemnation following the wide circulation of a video depicting an alleged xenophobic tirade against a high-ranking police official in KwaZulu-Natal. The incident, captured in a now-viral social media clip, shows a woman in a heated confrontation with Colonel Robert Netshiunda,…
In a landmark ruling with profound implications for South Africa’s ongoing reckoning with its apartheid past, the independent judicial commission investigating alleged political interference in historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) cases has decisively rejected applications by former Presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki to have its chairperson, retired Justice Sisi Khampepe, recused from the…
A parliamentary inquiry into alleged maladministration and corruption within South Africa’s Crime Intelligence division was rocked on Wednesday by explosive testimony from a former senior commander, who claimed a R45 million procurement for a surveillance device was, in part, a front to channel public funds into the African National Congress’s intensely contested 2017 Nasrec elective…
