Oscar Trial Resumes – Oscar’s Neighbours Testify

After a lay off of seventeen days, the movie like trial of the South African double amputee athlete and paralympian, Oscar Pistorius, resumed at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday. Oscar is facing a charge of premeditated murder as well as separate charges: discharge of a firearm in public places and another one of illegal possession of ammunition. The prosecution, the state, is arguing that the killing of Oscar’s girlfriend, model and law student Reeva ... Read more »
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By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Final Rallies – Anti-climax to the Election Campaign

As parties finalized their election campaigns with their last rallies on the weekend before the May 7 elections, it is all systems go for the body running the election, the Independent Electoral Commission. The... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, May 4th, 2014

The Fight for the Control of South Africa Intensifies as Election Day Draws Near

As the day grows closer, the fight intensifies for the control of arguably Africa’s longest standing economy. We carry on with our round up of the activities or lack thereof of the different stakeholders ... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Saturday, May 3rd, 2014

Three days to go before the elections – The gloves are finally off

  As we approach the election on Wednesday, it appears that the gloves are slowly coming off, and instead of intensifying the campaign of convincing the electorate, most parties are focusing on trying to p... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Friday, May 2nd, 2014

Pre – Election Round Up – Mpumalanga, Polokwane and Northern Cape

A row erupted on Wednesday between the new Economic Freedom Fighters and the City of Tshwane over the former’s use of Lucas Moripe Stadium for a rally. According to the City fathers, the use of the stadiu... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Thursday, May 1st, 2014

South Africans Living Abroad Cast their Votes

As the election race hots up, it behoves the media to take the coverage of the antics of the electioneering parties a gear higher in order to keep the public informed about who is doing what and also to keep th... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Monday, April 28th, 2014

Zimbabwe’s MDC-T Leader Morgan Tsvangirai Suspended

It all started after the country’s July 2013 elections in which the main opposition party, MDC-T, was completely whitewashed by the ruling ZANU-PF. Then the blame game started. Many in the party blamed th... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Freedom Day: Congratulations From the Queen; Malema says Nothing to Celebrate

As South Africa celebrates its twentieth anniversary as a democratic country, there is a lot of anticipation as to what the ruling party has got lined up for the celebrations they have earmarked for the whole c... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Saturday, April 26th, 2014

South African Mother in England Kills Own Children

South Africa seems to be appearing in the international media for all the wrong reasons of late. A South African woman is facing charges of murder in England following the discovery of the couple’s three ... Read more »
By Oliver Ngwenya On Saturday, April 19th, 2014

Opposition Parties Want IEC Chair Pansy Tlakula to Step Down

The call for the Chairperson of the independent Electoral Commission to resign seems to have gathered momentum showing a great measure of seriousness on the part of the opposition political parties. On Friday, ... Read more »