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South Africa’s graft-accused former president Jacob Zuma returned home on Saturday after a month-long trip to Cuba for medical treatment and declared he was not afraid of prison. Zuma, 77, was slapped with an arrest warrant earlier... Read more via Channels Television –...

27-year-old Osiphesona Ngcanga, whose life as an assistant lecturer of law at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) and as a maritime law master’s student was cut short due to a rape allegation against him, has regained freedom after proving his innocence..... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

Lions mauled to death a 21-year old woman on a South African private game reserve where she worked and lived, police said Saturday. The woman, identified as Swans Van Wyke, was attacked on Thursday afternoon “while performing her duties” on the reserve in the northern-most province of …...

A very rare occurrence was sighted at South Africa’s Kruger National Park on Saturday, when a Safari operator Kurt Schultz in South Africa came across a … Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/31oBbmO Get More Nigeria Metro News

Hopes have been dashed an experimental vaccine could protect people against HIV, the virus that causes Aids. The National Institutes of Health has stopped its HVTN 702 trial, of more than 5,000 people in South Africa, as it found the jab did not prevent … Read more via BBC News –...

A South African girl known as Mandisa Makubu, has received sympathetic messages from Twitter users after she took to the social media platform to reveal she was raped… Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2umqrJ5 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Johannesburg – Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams allegedly used thousands in taxpayers’ money to fund her wedding anniversary celebrations in the US and Switzerland by taking her husband, Thato Abrahams, along without permission from President Cyril Ramaphosa. Sunday Independent...

Nare Mphela, who won a landmark transgender discrimination case against her Limpopo high school in 2017, has been murdered in her home. It was learned that Mphela’s body was discovered with numerous stab wounds this week in her rented house in the Makopane area...... Read more via Welcome...

Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi was crowned Miss Universe 2019. The grand finale of the Miss Universe 2019 contest held on Sunday, December 8, and Miss South Africa went home with the desired crown. About 90 women from across the far corners of the known universe assembled on … via Pulse...

Moments ago, Miss South Africa, Zozibini Tunzi, was declared the winner of the 68th annual Miss Universe competition which aired live from Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. Tunzi 89 other competitors; she made the top 20, then top 10, 5, before she was named the top 3. She … via Olisa.tv –...

A South African court has found a police officer guilty of killing a Nigerian, Mr. Emmanuel Okoli in 2018. A civilian accomplice of the police officer, was discharged of all charges. The civilian, who became a state witness was granted bail.... Read more via Vanguard News –...

An up and coming Nigerian artiste, identified as Segun Wayne, is currently on the run after using a pair of scissors to cut the eyelid of a boy in Guateng, South Africa. It was gathered that the Segun, 25, had accused the... Read more via Instablog9ja – https://ift.tt/2KRtwWZ Get More...

Chanelle went missing from her home in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in August while her mother went to the shops. Her bloodied body was found in a public toilet the next day.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2OwiRSG Get More Nigeria Metro News

South Africa Football Association (SAFA), have finally received the R15-million prize money the South Africa national team earned at the Africa Cup of Nations..... Read more via TODAY – https://ift.tt/33rdxGd Get More Nigeria Sports News

A promising Nigerian man has been killed in South Africa on Saturday leaving his family in tears. The Nigerian community in South Africa is in mourning following the killing of a Nigerian and injuring of two others by unknown gunmen.... Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2MRNCBO Get...

A former traffic officer who in 1996 escorted a desperate, pregnant couple to hospital and helped deliver their son was last week reunited with the boy – 23 … Read more via IOL section Feed for News – https://ift.tt/2ph8Sb7 Get more World News

The mayor of South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg resigned on Monday, saying he was stepping down from the main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) … Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2J4vMt9 Get more World News

A 34-year-old Boksburg man has been arrested for the rape of a 2-year-old child, Gauteng police have confirmed.... Read more via News24 – https://ift.tt/2Ms9p2M Get more World News

Former South African president, late Jacob Zuma’s son who is alleged to have being involved in a number of corrupt practices executed by his father has denied any wrongdoing. Duduzane Zuma was giving evidence for a second day at an inquiry that’s investigating corruption.... Read more via...

A video of South Africa’s African National Congress Councillor and a ward committee member having sex in a tavern has gone viral. Though Daily Sun couldn’t establish the.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/31MCRFQ Get More Nigeria Metro News