Considering 44.2% of the country’s population comprises of young people under the age of 25, the statistics on youth unemployment are catastrophic at best and loom as a tinderbox that can detonate with disastrous consequences at worst.
Southampton’s place in the play-off final is at stake as they face a disciplinary hearing as they stand charged of watching a Middlesbrough training session. The result is expected to come on Tuesday.
The country may be the canary in the coal mine for an epidemic of loneliness that knows no borders. So entrenched is its people’s social isolation that a lexicon for it has been spawned – words for degrees of disconnection, vanishing from society and dying alone and undiscovered.
A shooting at a mosque complex in southern California killed three people, with two suspected teenage gunmen later found dead in a car from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said.
For a brief moment, one was relieved that the trial against some of those accused of having conspired to kill former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sandiso Magaqa would finally start.
The revelation by the Gauteng government that schools in the province owe municipalities nearly R590m should alarm every citizen who cares about governance, accountability, and the future of education.
Recent anti-migrant protests and attacks linked to groups such as Operation Dudula and similar anti-foreigner movements in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal have once again left many African migrants living in fear.
Cape Town City coach Jan Vreman is positive that the Citizens will win the playoffs and return to the Premiership, explaining why last season’s experience of participating in this round-robin contest won’t count for anything this time around.