Bongani Nkosi

Multimedia Journalist, The Star

Oscar Pistorius eligible for parole, Correctional Services contacted Reeva’s parents

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Correctional Services has confirmed that murderer Oscar Pistorius is being considered for parole, eight years into his imprisonment for killing his girlfriend Reeva ...

Over 61,000 social grant fraud cases reported on hotline

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The majority of whistle-blower calls made to the National Anti-Corruption Hotline relate to social grant fraud, says the Public Service Commission.

Grade 10 ‘dropouts’ still a worry

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The long-standing issue of higher repetition and dropouts in Grade 10 still spooks the country’s education system, years after the Department of Basic Education ...

Motshekga’s tap dance to explain matric pass rate vs high drop-out rate

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s explanation regarding the huge difference between the number of pupils who entered Grade 1 in 2009 and the cohort that ...

AfriForum says proposed language policy is “an attack” on Afrikaans schools

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Civil rights group has urged the government to build more schools to accommodate different languages

Alleged mastermind in Tshegofatso Pule murder to remain behind bars for now

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Ntuthuko Ntokozo Shoba, the boyfriend and alleged mastermind in the #TshegofatsoPule murder, has been accused of paying R70 000 to have his eight months pregnant ...

Umalusi approves release of 2020 matric results

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Results of matric pupils implicated in group copying and paper leakages will be withheld

Education Department plans to eradicate pit toilets by 2022

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Data released earlier this year indicated that there were nearly 4,000 schools still using these dangerous types of toilets.

IEC registers BLF again after party amends constitution

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The party was deregistered a year ago, after the Electoral Court ruled in favour of an application to remove it from the IEC’s books.

Minister says NSFAS will not pay accommodation providers more money after academic year spills into 2021

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Universities and private student accommodation providers hoping to pocket more money from students due to the extension of the current academic year to March 2021 ...

Ipid attends sentencing of ex-top convicted of child rape

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He drove the 9-year-old to a secluded area where he raped her, while his co-accused helped him to subdue her.

Court doesn’t buy Mdluli’s old, sick story

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The former crime intelligence boss will sit behind bars for an effective five years.

Arrested ANC man, stepson allegedly raped victims multiple times

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The Mpumalanga ANC leader arrested for the alleged repeated rapes of his 8-year-old twin daughters is believed to have sexually violated the children multiple times ...

Covid-19 forces dept to relax selection criteria for matric marking

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Fearing a crippling shortage of experienced matric exam markers due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Basic Education Department has resolved to relax the selection ...

DA issues retrenchment notices to staff

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This was revealed in a letter sent to all employees early this week. The letter was circulated on social media.

Duarte defends Dlamini-Zuma on cigarette ban

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ANC deputy secretary-general tells tobacco industry to back off

Carl Niehaus tackles Ekhuhuleni mayor over attack on Duduzane, Zuma video

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Masina tweeted on Wednesday that the conversation between father and son was “in bad taste and insensitive”.

'This nation will be punished by God'

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Zulu King warns of sex education at schools.

Zuma's 'illness' caused by stress of court appearances, public vilification, says Niehaus

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Zuma will land at the airport on Saturday on his return from Cuba where he was receiving medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment.

D-Day for Jacob Zuma

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Zuma will hear today whether he will be given a permanent stay of prosecution regarding his arms deal corruption charges.

'Rapists must have their manhood chopped off. ' - King Zwelithini

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Speaking in Zulu, the king said maybe it would be better if once a man was found to have raped, he should be handed to “men like us” to cut off his manhood.

Deputy minister killed while trying to assist victims of car crash

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Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has revealed that Bavelile Hlongwa died after she was run over by a car while trying to assist victims of another accident.

Don't just rely on Zuma and I to unite ANC - Ramaphosa

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Ramaphosa warned that unity within the ANC did not only depend on him and Zuma. He said unity would lead the ANC to victory during the general elections later this ...

Tensions boil as invaders buy land for R50 a plot

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Land invaders have staked claims to land at an upmarket gated estate on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, fuelling racial tensions between the land owners and the local ...

#NDZ: Dlamini Zuma lambastes whites

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Nkosazana says she will implement radical economic transformation if she is elected.