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Paseka Mako declared stable after horrific injury scare
Orlando Pirates have confirmed that their defender Paseka Mako is in a stable condition after he sustained a horrific face injury in the DStv Premiership clash against Baroka FC.
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Initiation schools close down again as SA goes to alert level 3.
By Cwenga Maqhubela Photo by: Johnnie Issac On a normal year with normal events, this time of the year initiation schools from across the country were expected to be fully operating. Celebrations when the initiates come back from these schools would have been underway as we speak, but the unfortunate circumstances of Covid-19 halted all…
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Lerato Chabangu plans a return to professional football after dealing with depression
By Cwenga Maqhubela Former Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns player Lerato Chabangu believes that he still has what it takes to return to professional football, this is after he has recovered from alcohol abuse and depression. He is now playing for Baberwa FC an amateur team from the ABC Motsepe league. What happened? Lerato Chabangu…
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FIFA appeals Russias ban from 2022 world cup
Story by Cwenga Maqhubela FIFA has made contact with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to clarify how Russia’s ban from major international sporting events applies to football. On Monday, WADA’s Executive Committee endorsed a recommended four-year ban for Russia, with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) declared non-compliant again over inconsistencies in anti-doping data discovered during…
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NMU campus football league team search
The search for the ultimate NMU campus football team will start on the 28th of July 2019. The structured team will represent the campus football league at the intervasity event coming up in August. The Nelson Mandela University campus football league (Mandela University CFL) is a recreational and social football league which offers an opportunity…
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22-year-old man sentenced to 20 years in prison for child rape
A 22-year-old man who raped a then-13-year-old girl at Phase 6, in Bloemspruit vicinity, Bloemfontein sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. The Magistrate Court sentenced Keabetswe Christiano (22) after convicting him of rape of a minor. The victim’s mother reported that her child fell ill; she took her to the doctor, and they discovered that she…
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SA teams grind results in CAF competitions
By Cwenga Maqhubela Mamelodi Sundowns played a 2-2 draw away at AS Maniema Union in the first leg of their CAF Champions League second preliminary round tie. This past weekend the South African league champions turned their focus to continental competition and handed starts to Brian Onyango, Mosa Lebusa in the absence of Rushine De…
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South Africa top group G in World Cup qualifiers
By Cwenga Maqhubela Image by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo images Bafana Bafana reclaimed top spot in Group G after claiming a nail biting victory over Ethiopia at the FNB Stadium on Tuesday evening. The Black Stars of Ghana claimed a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe through a Thomas Partey penalty in a Group G game that saw them…
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Nelson Mandela University students stand against gender-based violence
By Cwenga Maqhubela Photo by Cwenga Maqhubela Ever since the country faced a global pandemic in Covid-19, the attention slightly moved from other issues such as gender-based violence, femicides and police brutality to mention a few. According to Rose Gawaya, an adviser at the Social Policy Network, the government GBV and femicide command centre alone…
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A special tribute to Kaunda Ntunja
By Cwenga Maqhubela Sports It is not often that we wake up to such stories in the rugby community but on Monday the 20th of July we heard about the sad passing of one of South Africa’s most passionate rugby commentator and former professional rugby player Kaunda Ntunja. Background Kaunda Ntunja was born in East…
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SA mourns another epidemic, femicide
Column/ Opinion By: Cwenga Maqhubela In the mist of a global pandemic covid-19, South Africa faces another dark cloud as women perish in the hands ‘men’. I wish this was all new to us but the unfortunate part is that we hear about these cases on a daily basis. As we celebrate youth day today,…
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The future of investigative journalism
By: Cwenga Maqhubela Often when people hear of the word journalism the first thing that jumps into their minds is ‘oh! so you like peoples news’. Actually, that is not the case and we get different kinds of journalism that people give interest to and they all have their different ways of informing people. Investigative…
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Aphiwe Dyantyi focuses on the positives
By Cwenga Maqhubela Photo: SA Rugby The 26 year old Springboks and Emirates Lions winger was charged with a doping offence after testing positive for multiple anabolic steroids and metabolites back on July 2, 2019. He later on appeared for a hearing and was banned from participating in any sporting activity for up to 4…
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