I don't think South Africa speaks enough about the Maluleke Sisters.
Young women need role models like this. We need to see more stories like these of black women being trailblazers in their respective careers.📌
I want to thank @NetflixSA and @stainedglasstv_ for taking my story from print to film. This is such a surreal moment for me!!
#ThePolygamist is my debut novel, the book that got rejected by many publishers. So I took a bet on myself and self published. The bet paid off!!
Drivers and waiters keep making their salary the customers problem. The food is already more expensive when you order online, delivery is included in the amount we pay. Now this cancerous tip on top. An order that should cost R120 easily goes to R200 online. Yho hay, guys.
GROUP CHIEF RISK OFFICER APPOINTMENT | @DangoteGroup
The Dangote Group has announced the appointment of Dr Pontsho B. Mokoena as Group Chief Risk Officer, effective March 2026.
In this role, Mokoena will oversee Enterprise Risk Management, Insurance and Digital Transformation across the Group, strengthening risk governance, organisational resilience and strategic decision-making as the conglomerate advances its Vision 2030 ambitions.
Prior to joining the Dangote Group, Mokoena served as Executive: Risk and Insurance at Barloworld Limited, where she led the Group’s enterprise risk architecture and insurance programmes across multiple operating jurisdictions.
Education:
• Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (Predictive Risk Management), Paris School of Business
• MSc Actuarial Science, University of Leicester
• Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
• Advanced Insurance Practice, University of South Africa
• Bachelor of Commerce (Business Finance, Insurance & Risk Management), University of the Witwatersrand
During her tenure at Barloworld, she also held several key governance and fiduciary oversight roles, including Principal Officer and Board Member of the Barloworld Medical Scheme, and Principal Officer and Member of the Management Committee of the ONE Barloworld Retirement Fund. In these capacities, she chaired multiple governance structures including the Investment Committee, Administration and Ex-Gratia Committee, Disputes Committee and the RCC Committee, while also serving as a Member of the Audit and Risk Committee.
Mokoena is also the Founder and Director of KHAUTA Risk Advisory, a boutique consulting firm specialising in enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, insurance and risk financing solutions, artificial intelligence-driven risk analytics and board governance advisory.
Her governance experience further includes serving as a Non-Executive Director at the Board of Healthcare Funders, where she is a member of the Governance Committee. She has previously served as an Independent Trustee of the Transport Sector Provident Fund and the Road Freight and Logistics Industry Provident Fund.
Her appointment reinforces the Dangote Group’s commitment to strengthening enterprise risk oversight as it continues to expand its industrial footprint across Africa.
Congratulations, Dr Mokoena. Wishing you every success as you spearhead this critical enterprise risk and governance mandate at the Dangote Group.
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@LINSDURBAN@Solphendukaa@FNBSA They must refund it back ke. Charging fees is unfair. Capitec cash send refunds you back if the amount has not been redeemed after a certain period.
This celebration is called iHlamvu and it takes place on Christmas Eve, a day when migrant labourers would often return home after months and even years away from home. It’s a homecoming celebration of their survival and safe return from what was and still is hard labour and a hard life away from all that is familiar.
The wearing of the uniform clothing comes from familial brotherhood many of the men would form in the hostels and settlements, where they would bond, maintain and express their cultural pride through music (maskandi), indlamu (traditional dancing), stick fighting etc. So the fashion and even the choreography (which was about being smartly presented and amabutho are always coordinated!) is a subculture of the lifestyle yamaBhinca, who come from that part of the country.
The women and children then line the streets and welcome them back, kubongwa!
You will also remember that Msinga was up to fairly recently, the epicentre of violence and the training ground of hired guns ezi serious in taxi and political killings. That place had no peace in December and Easter because this would be peak “score settlement” season. So it’s beautiful to see how they have turned an ugly past around, and the holidays from a time of fear to festivity.
Ihlamvu: A branch or in this case different branches from a common place. So if you apply it contextually to what’s happening and how each isigodi is represented ngomfaniswano (uniform | same clothes) kwingezo (dt: cleaned up!) then it makes sense.
Hope this helps. Others will add their notes too. Thanks to those who asked.
Meet Jonas Lekganyane a self-taught animator and the founder of Rams Comics - a 2D Animation company based in Johannesburg. After he dropped out from the University of Pretoria in 2012 due to financial crisis. He started learning how to animate using YouTube tutorials and the same year he launched a hit animated online series called The Adventures of Noko Mashaba. An episode of the show called "Noko VS Izikhothane" was related as the most watched YouTube video of the year by Google when it revealed the most watched video of the year in South Africa 2014. In 2015 Noko Mashaba won the South African Film, Art, Music & Entertainment award (FAME) for the best comedian. He also sealed a big contract with MTN. Lekganyane is also an inspiring entrepreneur, cartoonist, sound producer, voice-over artist and a writer.
Another whistleblower who never got justice.
Jimmy Mohlala was ambushed and shot outside his home in Nelspruit by two masked men after exposing alleged 1.2 billion corruption in the construction of the Mbombela Stadium for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. His son was also wounded in the attack. Many believe his assassination was politically motivated to silence him.
Remember Their Names: South Africa’s Assassinated Whistleblowers & Officials
Honouring the lives of South Africans who were silenced for doing what was right.
Whistleblowers, investigators, public servants, and ordinary officials - murdered for exposing corruption, protecting the public, speaking up, or simply doing their jobs.
Remember their names. Their courage deserves the nation’s memory.