Tsakane Informer

  [Image :Young Urban Women. Taken by ActionAidSA Media Team] Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | 21 February 2026 On Friday, February 20 . Young Urban Women from the East Rand of Johannesburg, Johannesburg Inner City, Mamelodi and Mokopane,Limpopo, were gathered together at the ActionAid South Africa Headquarters in Rosebank, Johannesburg for a Round Table. The Round Table was centered around conversations on Climate Justice and Care Economy. Views were exchanged and solutions were proposed on the table.  Joined by audience on the virtual platform, Nontsikelelo Khunju,Young Urban Women Movement Coordinator led the round table discussion, sparking insightful thoughts and steering empowering conversations among the participants who were present at the table. Among many other things that were discussed, the key goals that were shared as part of the solutions to the issues of Climate Justice and Care Economy were to strive to, document lived experiences, deepen feminist ...

Personal Growth as Professional Power: How Going Back to Study Transforms the Way You Show Up at Work Mahlatse Ragolane (researcher, academic and Manager for the Centre of Excellence at Regent Business School) Growth rarely announces itself with fanfare. More often, it begins as a quiet restlessness, a sense that who you are at work no longer matches who you could become. In this thought-provoking piece, Mahlatse Ragolane explores how returning to study reshapes not only skills and knowledge, but confidence, perspective and professional identity itself. Blending contemporary research with lived experience, he traces how reflection, continual learning and academic rigour translate into sharper strategic thinking, bolder leadership and greater impact in the workplace. Ragolane brings this insight from a position of deep credibility. As a researcher, academic and Manager for the Centre of Excellence at Regent Business School, as well as a DBA candidate actively engaged in governance, educ...

                  [Image: Vukuzenzele] Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | 08 January 2026 It is was on the 19th of November 2025 when the South African Police Services in Duduza, received a complaint from Pholosong Hospital where a 2 year old toddler was brought to the hospital by his mother. The 20 year old mother alleged that she had given her son snacks which she had laced with poison and had also eaten from the same packet of snacks in an attempt to commit suicide.  In her attempt to commit suicide she did not succeed, but instead was admitted into hospital for medical treatment, while her child did not survive the poisoning. While she was receiving medical care, the detectives at Duduza police station were working day and night to gather all the information regarding the death of the two year old who was laid to rest in November.  On Monday, 22nd of December 2025 upon receiving the news that the 20 year ol...

      [Image: Xabiso Pearl Kambi TikTok] Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | 08 January 2026 On the 21st of November 2025, She spear-headed the National Gender-Based Violence Shutdown March in Tsakane, Ekurhuleni. She believed in the rights of women and in the social,political and economic equality of the sexes. Little did she know that on the last day of 2025, it would be her last day on earth. Xabiso Pearl Kambi(20), a young thespian and activist from Tsakane, was fatally shot on the 31st of December 2025 outside her family liquor store at Corner Mbulu and Maduna street in Maxhoseni section. Kambi was allegedly approached by 3 men who robbed her of her bag which had the cashing from that day. Kambi then ran after the men fighting for her bag, it was then that one of the assailants shot her leaving her heavily wounded. Kambi succumbed to her wounds and passed on at the scene and when emergency services arrived they declared her dead confirming that h...

                                                             (Image: AngelFishPR - Pamela Nomzaza) Pamela Nomzaza ,  Regent Business School | Academic |   3 December 2025   Quick fixes are failing. Businesses invest in short courses and certificates, expecting transformation, yet return to the same problems months later. Pamela Nomzaza, Academic at  Regent Business School , argues this cycle reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about what prepares leaders for complexity. In this piece, she makes the case that training teaches “how” whilst academic education asks “why and what next”; and explains why that distinction matters for organisations facing relentless disruption. The greatest threat to business during periods of disruption is relying on surface-level solutions when depth is requir...

[picture : vukuzenzele.org] Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Senior Reporter | 06 September 2025    A HUB OF CRIME AND SCANDALS - A Local township which used to be known for its unique culture and vibe has today turned into a hub-spot of crime and scandals that keep on dropping jaws. Tsakane, a local township in Brakpan, in Ekurhuleni, East Rand of Johannesburg. A Township where many creatives, academics, struggle icons and bright minds are born. Even with that record, Tsakane has not ceased in taking the cup with its numerous crimes and scandals lately.  Learners Commit Suicide  When 2025 begun, we had lost a learner from Tsakane Secondary School who committed suicide through high consumption of Xanax pills (a medication that treats anxiety). The young boy is said to have been apprehended by Amapanyaza (Crime Prevention Force) officers, carrying a bottle of pills in his possession during school hours and for him this meant trouble. Sources revealed that he took nearly ha...