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                               By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso, Political Reporter | POLITICS | Jan, 2024  SOUTH AFRICA  is a country that many African countries and even international countries look up to a lot especially when it comes to the law and the constitution. However South Africa today has turned into a hub of state corruption, crime and injustices. The very same elected leaders who are meant to serve and lead the country and its people with integrity and truth, are the very same people who are destroying the future of this beautiful country.  At this point in time, it feels safe to say that South Africa is bleeding and our leaders are the ones responsible for the haemorrhage. Just when our people think it is a new year and are looking forward to better things coming, things take a down turn and the hearts of hopeful South Africans get broken when tragic matters start arising in the beg...

             [photo source : The Guardian] LURNAY TSHABALALA-MAVUSO | 24 MARCH 2023 | Politics, Law & Society  I was about to go to bed as the news about Uganda having passed a bill that imposes hate crime and worst of it all, a DEATH SENTENCE upon Ugandian citizens who identify themselves as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. My question of distraught and shatteredness to the Ugandian government is , KUFANELE KWENZAKALENI which translates to in English – WHAT MUST HAPPEN?  What Must Happen with what? What must happen with the people whose rights to live and to be free ,when they are infringed by the very same government that is supposed to love and protect them. The very same government that should ensure safety and security for all the citizens of Uganda, or rather let me say that, the very same government that claims to ensure safety and security for its citizens. The very same government that claims to be the see...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Essay | Feb 2023 | Personal Development  Download A Copy Here For Free   Sometimes we spend years and years looking in places that we aren’t supposed to look in, end up getting ourselves into situations that become hard to get out of and even go to an extent of giving up on ourselves because we have now found belief that our purpose and destiny does not exist. This happens to so many of us and as it happens we start losing ourselves bit by bit, and we start adopting habits that eat us up to the bone and when our skeletons are now unhidden we want to duck whilst we have already been seen for who and what we are. That is why you find people asking themselves questions about you, saying “What happened to him/her?, she/he used to be really smart” , the real truth is that you aren’t ‘used-to be”, you are still smart, you have just passed through experiences in your life that have changed you and also suppressed the smart you. What you also ...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Law & Legal Analysis | Jan 2023 WHAT IS JUSTICE ?  Justice is the idea of fairness and impartiality, especially with regard to the punishment of wrong doing.  This question has been sprawling in my thoughts for the first three years I have spent in law school. Even today I still ask myself the very same question, is Justice really served when we just put the perpetrator behind bars and forget about the victim?, and I believe that I have found the answer to that question. Justice isn’t being fully served when we just put the perpetrator behind bars and forget about the victim. I know many of you reading this piece right now are asking themselves, HOW DO WE FORGET ABOUT THE VICTIM?, let me tell you how, we forget about the victim by focusing on proving the actions of the perpetrator and not bearing in mind that in that process the victim gets to re-live the traumatic experience when they have to answer questions in a court cross-exam...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Entertainment | 12 December 2022 WE DEFINITELY LOVE US SOME BOITS! Boitumelo Bokamoso Moletsane, a young South African Tiktoker and Entertainer who has stolen the hearts of so many people in and outside the country with her hilarious personality on Tiktok, a social media application which many did not know that it would birth stars and make careers.  Moletsane, is a young woman from the East Rand of Johannesburg and gained traction through Tiktok for her hilarious personality. Her videos having over 2 Million likes and her following being 325. 6 Thousand on Tiktok, she continues to climb up the entertainment ladder by making videos of her sharing her sarcastic sense of humour. What social media users love about her is the fact that she's authentic, unique and does something which no one is doing and has ever done before, just by being herself and using visual tools to express her being, she has been adored and still is being adored by so ma...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | Entertainment | 11 December 2022 AFTER giving the viewers an astounding performance through the character of Asanda Ndungange on Diepcity channel 161 Mzansi Magic, Zikhona Bali one of the country's best performers exits the show in a tragic incident, one that many would say it's a "Heist Gone Wrong", shots were fired at Asanda right after she and her squad - The Wrong turns, were nearly successful with the heist. On the Thursday episode the episode ended with Asanda being shot at by one of the guards guarding the money van, and on the Friday episode Asanda was then presumed dead at a hospital, after her friends, Nox (Nozuko Ntshangase), Snenhlanhla (Nompumelelo Vilakazi) and Lerato (Kgaogelo Monama), tried to save her life by resuscitating her. The Thursday and Friday episodes have the viewers going mad as they witnessed the painful and sad exit of Mam'mfundisi Asanda, played by Zikhona Bali. Others proceed to tweet in cry...

By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso | 08 Nov | Politics As South Africans we are very much exhausted of having to hope for a better and inclusive country that has been promised to us for a very long time. The hope has been slowly dying and at this point in time we are playing a game of ping-pong, only having thought that whether we win or the opponent wins, we will see when whatever happens. Even saying and uttering those words makes us even worry even more because we don't know what lies ahead of us when and if a different party is to lead and take reign over South Africa. That makes us afraid! Currently, we are battling with so many injustices by our government systems and officials, our people have been promised better and sustainable lives and great service delivery, and all this happens when our campaigning politicians are looking and begging for our votes using emotional manupilation, making our people entrust them with their lives enough to give them votes, in light of h...