โI love playing for Nigeria, but you have to pay for your own flight. ๐ญYou get to the hotel and thereโs no electricity. You wash your own kit, the pitch is only half grass, and if you make one bad pass the coach is screaming at you. ๐ But I love the food.โ
โ Alex Iwobi
CONGRATULATIONS are in order!
The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) for being ranked the top university in Africa, according to the 2026 Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).
This placement also puts Wits in the top 1% of higher education institutions globally, ranking 200th out of more than 21,000 institutions assessed worldwide.
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The New York Cosmos team line up before the match, featuring Pele (10), Jomo Sono (22), Giorgio Chinaglia (9) and Carlos Alberto (25), c 1977. Credit: Peter Robinson/EMPICS
Public Protector, Kholeka Gcaleka, says the City of Cape Town has failed to provide basic municipal services to residents of Langa Flats and parts of Khayelitsha. She says the City's failure to finalise lease agreements in Langa Flats has also affected residents' right to adequate housing. Tune in to #eNCA, channel #DStv403
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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes the organisation has serious questions to answer over the suspension of Folarin Balogun's red card:
"Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies.
"If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President -- and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match -- the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis [where are you going], FIFA?
"Football must never become a playground for political power."
On the night of 16 June 2008, armed ZANU-PF militia attacked the home of newly elected Mayor of Harare Emmanuel Chiroto in Hatcliffe, a working-class suburb on Harare's northern outskirts, searching for the man who had just helped wrest control of Zimbabwe's largest city from Robert Mugabe's party.
When the militia failed to find Emmanuel, they petrol-bombed the family house, seized Abigail and four-year-old Ashley, and drove away with mother and child into the darkness.
Hours afterwards, Ashley was found alone outside Borrowdale Police Station, but his mother was nowhere to be found.
Two days later, Abigail's battered body was discovered on a farm in Borrowdale with multiple broken limbs, a deep wound to her abdomen and a gunshot wound to the head.
She was murdered during ZANU-PF's campaign of terror ahead of Zimbabwe's 27 June 2008 presidential run-off.
Ashley grew up without his mother.
ZANU-PF murdered Abigail Chiroto.
JUNE 30 PROTESTS | Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says: "There's no apartheid government destabilising any country now, 32 years on, so we must all take responsibility for ensuring political stability in our countries." She adds that "there's no single country that will carry the burden of others".