Tsakane Informer

Image Supplied : IOL News Article screenshot, article by Sinenhlanhla Masilela (IOL Reporter) Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | OPINIONS | 22 February 2025  OPINION | Musa Khawula In Custody for Attempted Murder & Reckless Driving   For a celebrated Celebrity Basher like him this is way too low but then what can you expect from someone who lacks journalistic ethics and let alone proper knowledge and qualification. Even as a gossip blogger or whatever he calls himself, there is an ethical way and route to take where you can get fact-proven information that is meant to be just gossip not image tarnishing or harmful.  Musa Khawula does not gossip but he writes things that seek to destroy people's lives and images they have worked so hard to build just so he can build an image for himself (which he did). Now he was found half naked in his lower body standing outside of his car while there was a man dressing up inside his car moving to the fron...

Image : SUPPLIED, left a frame of the EMPD badges and Banele Skosana in uniform, middle Sbongile Dlamini, the accused wife of Banele Skosana and Right, Banele Skosana in uniform.  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | News & Current Affairs | 18 February 2025  The 7th & 14th of February 2025 will be dates that the Skosana family in Kwa-Thema (Ekurhuleni) will never forget. On the 7th of February, Banele Skosana (32) was brutally shot at as he was opening his shop in Vilakazi Street, Kwa-Thema. Skosana was a respected officer of the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD), a respected member of the community and an entrepreneur at the very same time. Though this date marked a sad tragedy for the Skosana family as they had to prepare for the tragic loss of their beloved son and brother. Upon the death of Banele Skosana, the HAWKS and EMPD worked day and night to find the suspects and by the grace of God they did and one of them confessed to being in...

  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso, Senior Reporter | News | 10 February 2025   IN KWATSADUZA :  EMPD (Ekurhuleni Metropolice Department) Officer, Banele Skhosana (33) got shot saturday morning on the 8th of February 2025 around 8am outside a spaza shop at Vilakazi Street, Kwa-Thema Springs. It is said that Skhosana was attacked by two men who were in front of the spaza shop. After shooting Skhosana, the men stole Skhosana's private firearm.  WANTED is Sbusiso Mkhelele Maphumulo , who resides in Tsakane, Brakpan. It is said by his victims that Maphumulo is a scammer that targets young women, promising them job opportunities and taking payments from young women. Maphumulo does all this posing as a senior member at BetXchange South Africa in Braamfontein. It is also said that a number of young women who are his victims have met him in Springs town, where he lures them to the side and tells them about fake job opportunities at BetXchange and asks for money in order to reserve ...

  JOURNEY WITH MASUPA, AKA KING MARS  Lurnay Tshabalala -Mavuso   mytsakaneinformer@gmail.com  MEET - MASUPA SEKABATE aka KING MARS   Masupa describes himself as a very quiet, chilled and laid back person, who grew up in a household filled with nothing but love, laughter and a lot of music. Masupa is a proud son of the soil and does not shy away from acknowledging his ancestors and worshiping God his creator. Masupa Sekabate is from Tsakane Extension 17 and is a local citizen and not forgetting to mention that he is a local creative too, who is about to become one of the country's best vocalist and musician. Let's dive into the conversation that we had with this incredible young man.  Who is King Mars?  King Mars is a Singer, Songwriter, Vocalist and Musician. Born and bred in Tsakane, popularly known as Mashona. King Mars is a child of the Bakwena tribe. A person who is so embedded in their culture and traditions.  Why are meeting in Kwa-The...

  OPINION-PIECE   (picture source ://SOWETANLIVE) Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | Columns & Opinions | 23 October 2024  It is just yesterday when Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and his wife, Rachel Kolisi announced on their instagram pages that they are divorcing. The Kolisis shared these news via a shared post on their instagram pages, where they state clearly that they have set down and reached to an agreement to go separate ways with their marriage, but continue to be good friends and co-parents for their children's sake, they also agreed to remain good business partners as they together run the Kolisi Foundation. Now so much has been said by the media and by people via social media, which makes me realize that people do not really understand that the Kolisis had no obligation to let us know of this decision that they have taken which affects their personal lives, but because they are public figures they have decided to share respectfully what they woul...

(Isithombe sithwetshulwe yi://africatimesmagazine) Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Umbhali oMkhulu | Amasiko Nobuciko | 24 kuMandulo 2024  KUWUSUKU olubaluleke kakhulu kwelase Ningizimu-Afrika. Usuku lokubungaza indabuko kanye namasiko abantu abenzinhlanga ezahlukene kuleli. Ngenkathi yobandlululo kwadaleka isehlukaniso esikhulu sobuciko babantu abantsundu, kanti ke loku kwadala enkulu ingxabano phakathi kwezinhlanga ezahlukene zabantsundu, kakhulukazi phakhathi kwesizwe sakwa-Zulu kanye nesizwe samaXhosa. Engingeke ngingene kakhulu emininingwaneni yakhona ngoba ngangingekho ngaleso sikhathi, kanti futhi engikwaziyo kungamahlebezi engiwezwe ngo gogo no mkhulu enginganaso nesiqiniseko sokuthi ngempela lokhu abangitshela kona kwaku yikho na.  Izinhlanga ezahlukene kuleli zibungaza lolusuku ngokukhulu ukuziqhenya, loku kubonakala ngendlela abantu abagcoka ngayo ngaphambili kwalolusuku kanti futhi nangalo lolusuku. Lapho abantu bagcoka khona izimvunulo ezikhomba imvelaphi noma indabuk...