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Political analyst Protas Madlala says the ANC leadership has finally come to terms with the fact that an urgent solution should be found to the politically-motivated killings in KwaZulu-Natal. The party in the province says it will soon meet with all its branches in Mzimkhulu, on the province's south coast, to iron out their differences.

It isn't raining, but pouring for Bafana Bafana. Following back-to-back 2-1 losses to Cape Verde in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, the Bureau for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers ordered a replay of the qualification match between South Africa and Senegal on 12 November last year.

United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres believes North Korea is the most dangerous crisis facing the world today.

The ANC in the e-thekwini Region says they have noted with grave concern reports of a circulating video of body guards of its Regional Secretary Bheki Ntuli, brandishing a AK-47 assault rifles in public. The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it will study the video. If proven to be true and authentic, strong action must be taken. In the video, one of two men said to be Ntuli's bodyguards, is seen cocking...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says he hopes the courts as well as Parliament will move quickly to resolve the issue of whether or not it was legally appropriate for Zimbabwe's First Lady Grace Mugabe to be granted diplomatic immunity. www.youtube.com

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the recently released GDP figures show that the 9-point plan is working. The latest figures have confirmed that the country is now officially out of a technical recession. www.youtube.com

The Energy Department says this month's substantial increase in the price of fuel has been partly prompted by a raise in the salaries of petrol attendants.

The South African National Taxi Council says it is contemplating increasing taxi fares. This follows an announcement by the Department of Energy that petrol will increase by 67 cents per litre this coming Wednesday.

Political analysts and observers believe as the race for who should succeed President Jacob Zuma, after the ANC national conference in December intensify, there will still be some kind of dirty tricks and mudslinging emerging, against those who intend contesting elections.

Ramaphosa is adamant that the recent sex scandal will not deter him from contesting the governing party's top position.

ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says the ruling party is experiencing a repeat of what happened ahead of the 2007 elective conference, when state resources were used to discredit members.

Political analyst, Ralph Mathekge says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has to prove that the extra-marital affairs emails are not authentic. Ramphosa lost a court bid last night, to stop the Sunday Independent Newspaper from publishing an alleged sex scandal which implicates him. The South Gauteng High Court found that Ramaphosa had not placed sufficient evidence to show that the matter was urgen...

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost a court bid, to stop the Sunday Independent Newspaper from publishing an alleged sex scandal which implicates him.

SRC president on the Buffalo City campus of Walter Sisulu University, Luyanda Mgobo, says they will not sit idly and allow a student's democratic right to education being violated. Legal action will be taken against a university student who failed to disclose an erroneous deposit of 14- million-rand from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in her account. Students at the university i...

Thirty girls attending a school at Kuruman in the Northern Cape have been impregnated, allegedly by teachers. The learners of Bothitong High School says they are being paid stipends for having unprotected sex with male teachers.

Author and Honorary Professor of Botany at the University of the Free State, Rodney Moffett has published a book on Basotho Medicinal Plants, Meriana ya Dimela Tsa Basotho.

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State (UFS), Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says the debate that traditional medicine is not scientific is not going to take the country anywhere.

Harmony Gold says challenging conditions are continuing to hamper the recovery process at its Kusasalethu mine where two mineworkers remain trapped underground. Management says rescue teams are continuing to work tirelessly to recover the mineworkers at the mine on the West Rand. Three bodies have already been brought to the surface. The mineworkers were trapped underground after a fall at the min...

Nsfas spokesperson Kagiso Mamabolo says they need to reassure their stakeholders that such a blunder will not happen again. This comes after Nsfas erroneously gave a Walter Sisulu University student R14 million. The student will have action taken against them.

It has emerged that the National Students' Finance Aid Scheme (Nsfas) has erroneously given a Walter Sisulu University student R14 million. A library on the university’s Zamukulungisa Campus in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape was torched on Monday night. This follows students' protests related to financial exclusion at the Nelson Mandela Drive and Zamukulungisa campuses. Students claim that a number o...

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State, Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says more 80% of South African rely on traditional medicine and the usage continues to grow.

The lawyer representing the African National Congress (ANC) branches in the OR Tambo region, Mpendulo Stoyile, has defended his clients' decision not to participate in the ANC provincial elective conference in the Eastern Cape. Stoyile says a number of branches in the region have filed papers in the High Court Mthatha challenging the integrity of the regional leadership. The branches want the prov...

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State, Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says more 80% of South African rely on traditional medicine and the usage continues to grow.

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State, Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says more 80% of South African rely on traditional medicine and the usage continues to grow

The search for two miners still trapped underground at Harmony Gold's Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville on Gauteng's West rand continues. The body of the third miner was brought to surface on Monday morning. About 3 0000 mine workers were underground when a tremor caused part of the mine to collapse. Harmony Gold mine spokesperson, Lauren Fourie could not indicate how long it's going to take to...