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Burning bright: A new documentary, titled The Bengal Tiger: The Rajbansi Story, is directed by Arish Sirkissoon and co-written by Rajbansi’s wife Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi. What part of the colourful and controversial South African politician Amichand Rajbansi’s story will it foreground?
AMICHAND RAJBANSI

A political animal who played the jungle

The Bengal Tiger’s life is retold on screen, revisiting the populism, opportunism and contradictions that made Amichand Rajbansi unforgettable

  • Marlan Padayachee
7 min read
Jeffrey Donson, a former mayor of the Kannaland municipality in the Western Cape.
DJ FANTASTIC

‘DJ Fantastic’ loses his mayoral chain as moral outrage grips Kannaland

‘Who in their right mind would allow a grown man who started a relationship with a 15-year-old [to become] the mayor of your municipality?!’

  • Mcebisi Ndletyana
7 min read
BEAUFORT WEST

Is Prince in or out?

The Karoo town of Beaufort West has dumped its controversial mayor, Truman Prince, after he was accused him of ”hooliganism”. Or maybe it hasn’t.

  • Pearlie Joubert Author
2 min read