In celebration of Madiba's 100 years
By Ali Mphaki
The United States’ first black President Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela lecture in Johannesburg on July 17, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has announced. This is to honour the centennial of the anti-apartheid icon's bir…
Families of sports heroes in the dark about exhibition
By Ali Mphaki
It is a noble idea. But the department of sports and recreation’s quest to remember past sport heroes in an exhibition has been marred by damning allegations that some of the families of those on show were never consulted…
Tale of two suspects at Bertha Gxowa
By Ali Mphaki
One is a medical doctor. The other an ordinary worker who suffers from albinism. Both were arrested by security guards for allegedly stealing property of the Bertha Gxowa hospital in Germiston. The worker Velimseni Masondo,40, works at the hos…
Patients fed mish-mash food in hospitals under the Gauteng department of health
By Ali Mphaki/Cartoon by Wilson Mgobhozi
Its three months since patients at most Gauteng government hospitals last tasted a meal with vegetables. So dire is the situation that in some hospitals they use petty…
ALL SET FOR MAMA WINNIE’S BURIAL
By Ali Mphaki / Pictures by Dumisani Dube
It’s almost finished. Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is sleeping at her Orlando West home in Soweto for the last time this Friday – albeit inside a casket. Hundreds of mourners had earlier Friday converged at th…
The remains of Mother of the Nation fetched from mortuary to home
By Ali Mphaki
It was a somber moment as onlookers watched a black Vito with military number plates outside the Kupane Funeral parlour in Orlando east on Thursday afternoon purportedly performing a dry run on how they will tr…
They came in droves to bid farewell to Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at a packed memorial service held at the Orlando Stadium on Wednesday. The memorial saw speakers from various political parties share the podium to deliver their eulogies to the woman popularly known as Mother of the Nat…
Cheating hip hop artist scraps wedding plans to his fiancé manager on social media
Staff Reporter
Who is the boss now?? (Boso ke mang?)
This is the question on the lips of a horde of fans of hip hop artist Jabulani Tsambo, otherwise known as HHP, after he annulled wedding…
Council in frenzy to clean up area around house
of Mother of the Nation
Pic and story by Boxer Ngwenya
Jo’burg city council employees have been hard at work sprucing up the area around Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s home in Orlando West, Soweto.
With all road…
Mother of the Nation - Your name is written in the stars above
By Ali Mphaki
Age would not wither her. For even on her last days and as an octogenarian for that matter, she was still as radiant and glowed in her beauty. To surmise that the English poet John Keats may have had someone like her …
Former President faces charges
By Dumisani Dube
It was thirteen years ago when last former president Jacob Zuma appeared before a court, On Friday in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Friday, the man known as Msholozi was again in the dock, cutting a lonely figure as he sat listeni…
Picture: Dumisani Dube
Seven years of labour with no promotion
By Ali Mphaki
Now you see him. Now you don't. This is how an albino man feels about his working conditions at the Bertha Gxowa hospital in Germiston. The source of his discomfort is not so much the lack of melanin - which in…
People urged to acknowledge role party played in struggle
The Orlando Communal Hall has been refurbished and it looks modern – a far cry from the tiny space it was, crammed to the rafters when the PAC launched 59 years ago.
The party celebrates its birthday on Saturday. Not many people pas…
Portfolio committee on arts and culture dancing out of tune
By Dumisani Dube/Ali Mphaki
Three years is looming since a complaint was lodged in Parliament against the department of arts and culture for submitting false and dishonest statements of monies totaling more than R20-million. Yet, the …
Police accused of stalling murder case against apartheid president
By Ali Mphaki
As former president Jacob Zuma prepares for his day in court Friday, questions are being asked why police are stalling to bring charges against minority rule head honcho FW de Klerk for the murder of more than 5 …
Teachers to be vetted before being appointed
By Ali Mphaki
Picture: Boxer Ngwenya
It’s going to be difficult for teacher with a sexual offence to be admitted to any school in the country. On Thursday Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education commended efforts by the South African …
Picture by: Boxer Ngwenya
Questions still rage at how she was appointed
to head the institution
By Ntwaagae Seleka
ntwaagae.seleka@abaphenyi.co.za
She came, she saw, and left the hospital in a critical condition. This is how employees at the Bertha Gxowa hospital in Ger…
Collage: Dumisani Dube
Shareholders urged to review unseemly bonuses
By Staff Reporter
Former Steinhoff Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Markus Jooste, has been subpoenaed to appear before the Standing Committees on Finance, Public Accounts and Trade and Industry. This is after Jooste via…
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