It's been nearly three weeks since 18-year-old Onke Komsana from the rural village of Sithebe in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape left home for initiation school - the rite of passage for Xhosa boys ...

Facing a criminal investigation, Bitou Deputy Mayor Nokuzola Kolwapi defends her controversial actions during a cultural ...

Liberia is witnessing a disturbing resurgence in female genital mutilation, with new evidence showing that 502 girls and ...

Bitou deputy mayor, Nokuzola Kolwapi has denied discharging a firearm during her son’s umgidi celebrations in Kwanokuthula, ...

In the early 1700s, the Loyalist-leaning Royalls took up residence on their 500-acre Ten Hills Farm estate in Medford, and ...

The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has sounded an urgent alarm as the 2025/26 Summer Initiation Season has recorded five deaths within its first weeks, prompting ...

Cases that were once rare are now emerging with unsettling frequency, slipping from community whispers into morgue reports ...

Allegations that Bitou Deputy Mayor Nokuzola Kolwapi fired a handgun at a cultural ceremony have sparked condemnation, a ...

Deputy Executive Mayor of Bitou, Nokuzola Kolwapi, defends herself against a backlash over a viral video showing her with ...

IPM party member and Bitou Deputy Mayor Nokuzola Kolwapi was in a video appearing to fire a weapon at a private ceremony.

Criminal distortion of history, fueled by post-truth narratives and state sponsorship, threatens democracy. An academic ...

Staff Reporter In a fervent response to a viral video capturing her in a controversial celebration, Nokuzola Kolwapi, Deputy Executive Mayor of the Bitou Local Municipality and President of the ...