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  PICTURE SOURCE : IMDb //  Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso - Political Reporter | POLITICS | 15 JUNE 2024  VICTORY is sang as Cyril Ramaphosa won last night's parliamentary elections in the 7th Seating of the Parliament. Ramaphosa won the race at 283 against EFF's CIC Julius Malema who had 44 votes. This gave the honourable house quite a happy stir as votes flooded in favour of Ramaphosa, a leader that other parties deem and see fit to continue to lead the country and take it to greater heights.  Though unimpressed Malema, has shared with the parliament that he does not recognise the Government of National Unity that is the coalition between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the African National Congress (ANC). Malema says, this is ultimate betrayal and not a coalition. He further continued to utter that he sees this coalition as a marriage between the DA and ANC, where the ANC is the bride and the DA the groom. Meaning the DA is the one that is in power not the ANC. He mad...

  By Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso - Writer/Reporter | OPINION | 30 April 2024    The Outcry that we have as South Africans is that foreign nationals take our jobs, they don't pay tax and that they are destroying lives and our economy.   We cry about all of this while not having in mind that - we feel entitled. There no one taking any job from anyone, we just fail to become progressive in our individual lives. We are too reliant on the government for job opportunities, money, food, safety, health care and many other things, while not bearing in mind that the very same foreign nationals that we speak ill of, have none of what we have here in this country. We are regarded as a developing country whilst, other countries within the diaspora view us as a developed country, hence they come here and look for employment opportunities and entrepreneurial opportunities. South Africans have too many capabilities and skills to take this country to greater heights.  The only thin...

                                                                   [Picture://fikile.mbalula.facebook]                                        Lurnay Tshabalala-Mavuso, Political Reporter | POLITICS | January,2024  The Secretary General of the ANC, Fikile Mbalula , who has made a public admission on his statement, on Sunday 7th of January, admitting that the ANC misled parliament in Zuma's defense. This is admission is in relation to the "fire pool" that was built at former president Jacob Zuma's house in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal.  " An ad hoc committee was opened in parliament and said a swimming pool is a fire pool. The police minister (who was Nathi Nhleko at the time) was sweating, seeing that this was lies, b...

                               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...