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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
Drama is brewing in the new Build A Better South Africa (Babsa) political party that was formed by the former world boxing champion and lawyer, Lovemore “The Black Panther” Ndou. On Tuesday, the former ActionSA leader, Musa Mbewe, told this publication that she had resigned from Babsa. This was after she had accused the party of acting in bad faith and subjecting her to a “tea girl” role with no views she should discuss nor table with the leadership as secretary general.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
In just 24 hours after being appointed as the secretary general of Build A Better South Africa (Babsa), a political party formed by the former world boxing champion Lovermore “Black Panther” Ndou, Musa Mbewe had resigned.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
Artists and music practitioners have come out to voice their concerns regarding payola, a term used in the broadcasting industry, where artists pay a bribe to music compilers and radio presenters – including programming managers and station managers – to get their music more airplay so that the artists can earn royalties.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
A disturbing trend is rearing its ugly head within government as tenderpreneurs and businesses heavily reliant on state contracts find themselves increasingly at the receiving end of extortion schemes by officials, politicians, and even political organisations. This underhanded practice, masquerading as “protection fees”, is crippling service delivery, derailing critical projects, and ultimately rob the nation of the fruits of its hard-wonfreedom.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
The South African Music Rights Organisation (Samro), which administers the rights of musicians, publishers and composers among others, has been hauled to court over allegations that it plundered more than R60-million meant for its artists.
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1 week ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Ngwako Malatji |Bongani Mdakane
Legendary actor Sello Maake kaNcube’s failed marriage to his latest wife, Pearl Mbewe, is now hitting where it hurts most, in the pocket. Sunday World can exclusively reveal that the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) has withdrawn more than R1.8-million in grants it had approved for allocation to the actor’s foundation, Sello Maake kaNcube Foundation NPC, which is based in Ekhaya Centre in Dube, Soweto.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
The new political kid on the block, Build A Better South Africa (Babsa), has appointed the former ActionSA leader as its secretary general. Musa Mbewe, who is a former ActionSA Gauteng Women’s Forum provincial chairperson, has dumped Herman Mashaba’s political party to join BABSA. Babsa is led by the former world boxing champion Lovermore “Black Panther” Ndou, who has dual citizenship in South Africa and Australia. Ndou was born in Musina in Limpopo.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
Free State businessman Duma Mdlayedwa Mthombeni is suing another entrepreneur, Robert Madie, alongside his business associate Lebohang “Mbuu” Tsotetsi, for a whopping R10-million. Mthombeni’s lawyers, Vana Tshabalala Attorneys, stated in the letter that was sent to Madie and Tsotetsi, as well as their business joint venture, Moroka JV Mbunana Building, that Mthombeni was suing them and their companies for defamation.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
The Tswaing local municipality in North West has defied a Labour Court order by reinstating 24 employees affiliated to the powerful South African Municipal Workers Union. The fired workers subsequently received unexplained “stress relief” payments, despite no official policy justifying such payouts.
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2 weeks ago | 
sundayworld.co.za | Bongani Mdakane
The Black Business Council (BBC) has accused the public works minister, Dean MacPherson, of poking his nose in the operational matters of the Independent Development Trust (IDT), the public entity in charge of rolling out social infrastructure across South Africa. MacPherson is in the government as a minister through the DA ticket.
