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4 days ago | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale
South Africa is quietly fragmenting. Not through secession or revolution, but through something far more ordinary: boom gates, biometric scanners and body corporates. Across the country, from suburban enclaves to sprawling estates, a quiet retreat from the state is underway. The lines that once marked a shared civic life are being redrawn by private power.
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1 week ago | 
sapeople.com | Neo Thale
Floyd Shivambu slyly dared uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob Zuma to remove him from the organisation, after Zuma, the former secretary-general, took tentative steps to form a new political party. During a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday afternoon, Shivambu announced plans to launch a nationwide consultative process, engaging with religious leaders and football club owners to assess whether South Africans are open to a new political party.
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1 week ago | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale
Floyd Shivambu has slyly dared uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob Zuma to axe him from the organisation, after the former secretary-general announced tentative steps towards the formation of a new political party.
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3 weeks ago | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s unlikely political marriage exploded in a fiery public divorce Thursday, with the US president threatening to strip the billionaire of his huge government contracts in revenge. Trump said in a televised Oval Office diatribe that he was “very disappointed” after his former aide and top donor criticised his “big, beautiful” spending bill before Congress.
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1 month ago | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale
Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, the chairperson of Business 20’s (B20’s) Digital Transformation Task Force which includes esteemed leaders in technology, is ambitiously working to advance digital inclusion across Africa and other developing economies. In a recent interview, Mahanyele-Dabengwa explained the purpose and focus of the Digital Transformation Task Force, one of the many task forces of the B20.
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1 month ago | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale
With the group 49 so-called Afrikaner “refugees” having landed in the United States on Monday, having left South Africa on Sunday, it seems there’s an American corner of the internet that is not chuffed with their new lodgers. As news of the Afrikaners landing at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC hit Bluesky, some ostensibly Americans users expressed frustration with their new neighbours, and some of the commentary was brutal.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
thesouthafrican.com | Ramadhani Kusaga |Craig Lewis |Mariette Adams |Neo Thale
Watch the full version of the“Hijackers target new vehicles at high-risk times: Are you in danger?“article – in a minute. Hijackers are now responsible for 56% of all vehicle-related crimes in South Africa, surpassing thefts, which make up 44%. This is according to the latest Tracker Vehicle Crime Index for July to December 2024.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
thesouthafrican.com | Craig Lewis |Ramadhani Kusaga |Mariette Adams |Neo Thale
Former Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber has been bizarrely blamed for negatively affecting the Ireland national team. 20-03-25 13:28 Former Springbok head coach Jacques Nienaber has enjoyed great success since leaving South Africa after the 2023 World Cup to join up with leading Ireland club Leinster, who are undefeated and top of the URC log. By all accounts, Nienaber has been a perfect fit at Leinster, and deserves huge credit for the success he has had once again in a new environment.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
thesouthafrican.com | Neo Thale |By-election performance Gauteng |Northern Cape |Eliot Mahlase
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has a fresh bounce in its step, after the party won its first ward in the Western Cape, gaining its first councillor in the Democratic Alliance-ran province. Mzwandile Simon Biko is the new ward councillor for ward 1 in the Saldanha Bay Municipality, after the MK Party snatched the ward from the ANC during a round of by-elections in three provinces on Wednesday.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
sapeople.com | Adamu Andrew Michael |Shyleen Choruma |Ray Leathern |Neo Thale
It’s nearly time for the Wednesday, 19 March 2025 Daily Lotto jackpot draw!It’s another chance to find out whether or not you’re one of South Africa’s latest Daily Lotto winners. If you’ve decided to ‘Phanda, Pusha and Play’, then you might just strike gold. Good luck!R500 000The SAPeople website will update the results on this page as close to 21:00 (SA time) as possible. If you don’t see the latest results, please refresh your browser.
