JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - Sia Leita says South Africa as a whole, are conflicted when it comes to the initiation rites of passage.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August - Tonight on BackChat we ask whether initiation is an outdated practice or does it still have an important cultural place in modern day South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - We’re just out of the 2017 Winter Initiation Season. Thousands of boys and girls across the country went through the sacred rites of passage into adulthood.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe has explained why Makhosi Khoza was removed from her post as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - Sanef says journalists were well within their rights to walk out of a social development briefing this morning. The briefing was supposed to be addressed by Minister Bathabile Dlamini, but, she was two hour late.
PRETORIA 17 August 2017 - AfriForum's Gerrie Nel says he hopes police will do all they can to make sure Zimbabwe's First Lady, Grace Mugabe is held accountable for an alleged assault on a young South African woman. .
Polokwane 17 August 2017 - Journalists have staged a walk-out at a briefing by Social Development minister, Bathabile Dlamini after the minister was two hours late. Karyn Maughan was one of the reporters present, and filed this report.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - The Deputy Higher Education Minister, Mduduzi Manana was purportedly caught on video, assaulting three woman at a bar in Johannesburg. We spoke to social media expert Yavi Mudurai about her assessment of governments response.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August 2017 - Having survived the vote of no-confidence in Parliament, the president was back to his official duties. On Wednesday he hosted government’s official Woman’s Day rally.
JOHANNESBURG 17 August - South Africans had their eyes glued on parliament. Weeks after the Constitutional Court ruled that Speaker Baleka Mbete had the power to decide whether MP’s could vote in secret on a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma