For over 20 years they lived with evil smelling bucket toilets right outside their doors, but the brand new flushing toilets handed over to residents in Alexandra have ended the suffering of nearly 200 families who were using the bucket system.
The shooting to death of Clyde Stuurman of Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape has dampened the celebratory mood among the direct descendants of Chief Dawid Stuurman.
With only a few days left before the 2021 elections for the new Confederation of African Football (CAF) president, the odds are leaning in favour of South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe.
Normal village life has ground to a standstill in Ndakeni, Ngwekazana and Sithinteni villages outside Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape – where villagers have blocked a main access road demanding resurfacing of the gravel road.
Eighteen-year-old Nontobeko Mtshali was beaten to death with a hammer and sticks in front of her siblings and her mother - allegedly for stealing a cell phone.
An emotional Branden Grace has dedicated his title victory at the PGA Tour Puerto Rico Open to his late dad who succumbed to Covid-19 complications earlier this year.
There was joy and celebration as hundreds of schoolgirls who were abducted by armed men from their boarding school in Northwest Nigeria on Friday were freed on Tuesday.
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