Queenstown | Wednesday A MATRIC farewell for students from the Dr WB Rubusana Senior Secondary School in Queenstown’s Ezibeleni township in the Eastern Cape, ended in tragedy at the weekend when three pupils were shot, allegedly by a teacher, and a fourth died while trying to get help. The accused, Zanoxolo Gxalaba, who teaches at […]
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Thebe Mabanga discovers why Ray Phiri left Gauteng for Mpumalanga in 1997 — and why he’s coming back next weekend.
Ezra Ngcukana, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Pops Mohamed, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
McCoy Mrubata, appearing at the Joy of Jazz festival, speaks to Thebe Mabanga.
Kgaogelo Mailula brings something refreshingly novel to jazz in South Africa. And with her comes all the humanity (<i>botho</i>) and the "African values" that she wants instilled in the music industry, writes Bongani Majola.
ANGOLA’S rebel Unita movement claims to have killed 148 government and six Namibian soldiers in operations in nine of Angola’s 18 provinces, the Lusa news agency said in Lisbon. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) said it had attacked a “coalition of Angolan-Namibian troops” on August 19 in southern Kuando Kubango […]
TANZANIAN police have arrested three local journalists in an apparent attempt to prevent media coverage of ethnic clashes that have left over 40 people dead. The journalists were reportedly arrested in the isolated northern region of Mara on August 22 while investigating claims that victims of tribal clashes were being buried in mass graves. Mwanza […]
ILDA JACOBS, Washington | Tuesday SOUTH African aupair Nambuso Ntuli has finally been granted bail and released from an American jail where she was being held on child abuse charges. The 23-year-old from KwaMashu near Durban was arrested by police in the US capital Washington DC three weeks ago after allegedly locking two young boys […]