Wits came from behind to share the spoils in a 1-1 draw with Silver Stars in their Castle Premiership game at the Bidvest stadium on Wednesday night. Stars led 1-0 at halftime. The game started at a blistering pace with both strikers testing the goalkeepers with shots.
About 2 800 vehicles a month are being repossessed nationally by WesBank and Absa Vehicle and Asset Finance, Business Report reported on Thursday. However, both indicated that the current level of vehicle repossessions was off peak levels.
As a symbol of waning imperial power, it is unmistakeable. Captain America, the stars-and-stripes-wearing, blonde and blue-eyed ”pinnacle of human physical perfection”, is dead. The Marvel comics superhero, aka Steve Rogers, is gunned down by a sniper in the latest instalment of the comic.
MortgageSA, one of South Africa’s largest mortgage originators, says early indications are that February and March are, once again, going to be the months when the property market is most active. It lists five key reasons for the typical February-March spike.
Sony has unveiled plans for its own virtual universe for the PlayStation 3 where users will be able to socialise, shop and even go to the movies — all without setting foot outside in the real world. The free service, called <i>Home</i>, will allow PS3 users to set up an apartment for life-like virtual characters, or avatars, which can invite friends or strangers over.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) head of news Snuki Zikalala was warned that should blacklisting of political commentators by the public broadcaster occur again stronger action would be taken against him, SABC news reported on Wednesday.
The department of education disclosed the alarming escalation of teenaged pregnancy that made headlines last year. More than 72 000 girls aged between 13 and 19 did not attend school because they were pregnant.
When Kwame Nkrumah remarked 50 years ago that "the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of Africa" he may not have known how much of a catalyst he was providing for the subsequent wave of decolonisation that swept the continent.
I am principal of a school called Nkone Maruping Primary School, situated on the outskirts of an RDP settlement called Braamfischerville, named after the struggle icon, Braam Fischer. It is not far away from Dobsonville and Roodepoort, west of Gauteng.
"They read so badly, they couldn’t read the question papers – and they spelt so badly, they couldn’t write their names," a Cape Town school principal said in disgust about his grade eight learners.