R50m WesBank legal battle: Two decades of car purchase dispute

Don Makatile|Published

A former senior government official's R50 million legal battle with WesBank over an alleged fraudulent car deal enters its 20th year, with the Constitutional Court ...

Slaying the Dragon: One man’s battle against opioid addiction

Don Makatile|Published

Soon he is no longer able to live without Oxy and goes through two years of hell trying to wean himself off the drug, an on-and-off pendulum of trying to quit.

Former government official hauls bank giant to court over alleged fraud

Don Makatile|Published

A former senior government official who purchased a vehicle through a scheme financed by Wesbank is taking his legal tussle with the bank to the highest court in ...

The Sweetest Taboo

Don Makatile|Published

I started reading the book but found myself going back to the Swazi story a few times.

Top achiever: taxman’s loss is big real estate win

Don Makatile|Published

As agent of the year for 2023 in his neck of the woods, he achieved over R100 million sales turnover in property value over 12 months.

Interior designer Ngoasheng has a ‘Sheeq’ touch

Don Makatile|Published

Mosima Mpho Ngoasheng runs Sheeqliving Interiors, a name that derives from ‘chic’. It is not exactly rocket science that she is passionate about fashion, a fact ...

‘I don’t need drugs to be high; dance is my opium’

Don Makatile|Published

Celebrated dance teacher Nomsa Manaka has come full circle, in almost all areas of her life, thanks to her craft.

Helping pupils reach for the stars

Don Makatile|Published

Now in their eighth year, and punted as a platform where “the ideas of school teams are heard, tested and supported”, the Step Up 2 A Green Start Up National Youth ...

Yes, there is a SA military ombudsman. Here's what he does

Don Makatile|Published

The death of Alexandra resident Collins Khosa has brought to light the existence of a relatively unfamiliar office within the army: the military ombudsman.

Ripple effect as annual Easter pilgrimage to Moria called off

Don Makatile|Published

The road to Moria has over the years been a hive of activity but with the nationwide lockdown, the N1 was eerily quiet.

Four years later, the bodies of Lily Mine miners still underground

Don Makatile|Published

Tuesday marked the fourth anniversary of the Lily Mine disaster in which three workers were trapped underground after a tremor caused a container which they used ...

Neighbours cagey in street where Senzo Meyiwa was shot

Don Makatile|Published

“The people who bought the house after the Khumalos left did not stay long. "

Marikana massacre: No closure yet seven years later

Don Makatile|Published

The reasons the ?new dawn? police acted like their apartheid-era predecessors by opening fire on the striking workforce remain veiled in secrecy and cover-ups.

Human TB found in elephant

Don Makatile|Published

Animals have had foot-and mouth-disease, swine fever and the likes but tuberculosis, which killed an elephant in SA in 2016, is a new disease.

Graca Machel: Are we prepared for natural disasters?

Don Makatile|Published

To minimise impact countries should be ready and well-equipped to deal with the aftermath

Volunteers turn school into centre of excellence

Don Makatile|Published

a farm school that started in a cowshed in the 1960s has transformed into a centre for academic excellence with a well-resourced library and computer and science ...

What will Bathabile Dlamini be remembered for?

Don Makatile|Published

Those who had expected her resignation letter ?with immediate effect? to be an exercise in spilling the beans are still reeling with shock at the damp squib it turns ...

Case against Marikana top cop remanded to August

Don Makatile|Published

Activists for the #JusticeForMarikana campaign want Major General William Mpembe to be ?jailed with everyone who was involved? in the shootings.

#AlexShutdown: ‘No chopper can land in Alexandra, there’s no space'

Don Makatile|Published

In 1980, Winnie Mandela landed in Alexandra in a helicopter as residents rioted, good luck trying that today

Nothing royal about Princess squatter settlement

Don Makatile|Published

"We vote but things stay the same. It is not nice to stay in a shack. ?

Offspring of SA politicians ‘born into a network’

Don Makatile|Published

Had it not been that his father is the president, it is highly unlikely many people outside his immediate circle of friends would have known who Andile Ramaphosa ...

ANC has taken over what should be ‘Sharpeville Day’

Don Makatile|Published

Robert Sobukwe?s role in the Struggle seems to be forgotten with the governing party commandeering the event.

Moyane had no integrity, dismantled elements of governance - Nugent report

Don Makatile|Published

While his interim report was damning on Tom Moyane, retired judge Robert Nugent is even more merciless in the final version of his report.

State capture inquiry: Des van Rooyen’s comedy of errors

Don Makatile|Published

Former Treasury director-general gives his impression of fiasco that was Des van Rooyen

How Barbara Hogan conquered the #StateCaptureInquiry

Don Makatile|Published

She came, she saw and she conquered. That about sums up former Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan’s three-day testimony at the Zondo Commission

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