IN CONVERSATION WITH MIKE BOLHUIS, CRIME EXPERT, ON CRIME IMBIZO IN OLIVENHOUTBOSCH

ActionSA Johannesburg Caucus is deeply concerned that despite the existence of a prima facie case of corruption and extortion against Cllr Sithembiso Zungu, the Former Chief Whip of Council and now Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Group Corporate and Shared Services, Mayor Dada Morero has proceeded with his…

Over the past four years, the Centre for Faith and Community, in partnership with Lawyers for Human Rights and the Tshwane Leadership Foundation, has trained nearly one hundred community activists through the Tshwane Urban Activist School (TUAS). This initiative has equipped community activists with the tools to defend the rights…

At 39, Michelle Roniak appears to have it all: a thriving business, a vibrant social life, and a loving family. But beneath the surface lives her all-consuming obsession with physical perfection. Life is a relentless cycle of starving, dieting and binging. Every day begins with her rejecting what she sees…

In 1996, the South African Schools Act outlawed corporal punishment, bringing an end to an era where physical force — caning, slapping, and hitting — was a common way to discipline learners. The law made it clear: no child may be subjected to violence in school. Teachers who break this…

Relentless pressure from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng over the long-delayed Johannesburg South Forensic Pathology Laboratory, whose incomplete state has denied residents access to timely autopsies, post-mortems, and toxicology reports, is beginning to pay dividends. The Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (DID) MEC, Jacob Mamabolo, has finally conceded that…