In light of the recent Milnerton High School incident, how common bullying is and how it shapes people long after school ends, I’m curious to hear from others: were you bullied in school, or did you find yourself on the other side of it? Maybe you were both at different times. Maybe you were...
Businesses and civil rights organisations defy EFF shutdown
Several prominent South African businesses plan to keep their doors open during the EFF's "national shutdown" protest on Monday, 20 March 2023, while civil rights organisations and business interest groups have also condemned the...
https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/south-africa/2023-02-02-watch-pupils-hold-teachers-and-cops-hostage-over-schoolmates-suicide/
Police officers and teachers were held hostage at a school in the Free State after a schoolmate allegedly committed suicide after being bullied by a teacher.
The...
A clash between private and striking campus security guards broke out at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha on Wednesday, resulting in several injuries.
Police said a stray bullet hit a student on the hand during the clash.
"The information we received was that the group of security...
The N2 in the vicinity of Mandini on the KZN North Coast has been closed to traffic after protestors erected burning barricades on Tuesday morning.
Road Traffic Inspectorate spokesperson Zinhle Mngomezulu said that the freeway had been closed in both directions.
She described the incident...
A man in Malawi has protested a 15-month sentence handed down to an accused who exhumed the corpse of his albino brother, Malawi24 has reported.
Moffat Ziligone vowed to appeal the sentence handed down to the man at the Kukasenje court in Ntcheu, saying such lenient judgments contributed to...
I am sure Malema likes this. WTF South African mentality at its best.
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/ovation-for-obama-despite-protesters-1.1539600
http://www.vosizneias.com/134578/2013/06/28/johannesburg-hundreds-protest-obamas-visit-to-south-africa/...
Two Northern Cape opposition parties have stayed away from a provincial budget sitting in Kimberley because it was being attended by two MECs accused of fraud.
The MEC's continued presence in the legislature and the protection given to them to continue their work as though nothing had...
Cosatu has vowed to take to Gauteng's highways later this month to protest against e-tolling and labour brokers.
The union federation had held discussions with both the Gauteng and national government in an attempt to persuade them to ban labour brokers and scrap e-tolls, Congress of SA Trade...
Striking SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) members were gathering in an open space in Marabastad, on the outskirts of the Pretoria CBD, on Wednesday morning.
More than 20 buses pulled into the old Putco bus depot, where they dropped off striking teachers from various provinces.
Police...
Hundreds of SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) members picketed outside the education department's Durban office on Wednesday.
They called for Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and her director general Bobby Soobrayan to resign.
They carried placards reading: "Angie has failed to...
The trial of seven policemen charged with killing protester Andries Tatane was postponed by the Ficksburg Regional Court on Monday.
The court postponed the matter to March 18, because the policemen's defence lawyer Johann Nel is in hospital.
Tatane was killed on April 13, 2011, allegedly...