AWestlake High School senior has received acceptance letters from over 50 colleges and over $1.3 million in scholarships. Daya Brown, who has been a member of the Harvard Diversity Project and was student council president during high school, said her goal was to ultimately not pay for college. She explained …
Read More »Teen, 13, drowns at a beach in Cape Town
A teenager, 13, drowned while swimming with a friend at Hout Bay Beach, Cape Town, on Sunday. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) duty crew was activated at approximately 14:35 following reports of a drowning in progress. The NSRI’s Hout Bay sea rescue crafts Albie Matthews and Tintswalo Phoenix were …
Read More »WATCH| Ghanaian teen gets all emotional as Jose Mourinho delivers €800 boot promise
AS Roma manager Jose Mourinho has delivered his promise of buying a new €800 boot for Ghanaian teen sensation Felix Afena-Gyan. The Portuguese gaffer had a pact with the 18-year-old that he will buy him his pair of favourite boots if he scored in the serie A. Afena-Gyan took up …
Read More »Zimbabwe reports major rise in teen pregnancies during pandemic
Zimbabwe’s government this month reported a major increase in teenage pregnancies in January and February. Advocates are blaming the rise from previous years on coronavirus lockdowns and poverty. Zimbabwe’s government says nearly 5,000 teenage girls became pregnant in January and February and about 1,800 entered early marriages during the same …
Read More »Kasoa teen ‘killers’ got idea from TV ritualists; first planned kidnapping boy for GH¢5K ransom – Police
The two teenagers who have been arrested by the police for killing a 10-year-old boy for ritual purposes, have confessed to being inspired to commit the crime after watching a spiritualist on TV talk about how people could be millionaires through such means, the fact sheet of the case …
Read More »Kasoa murder: Court remands teen suspects into Police custody
Ofaakor District Court in the Central region has remanded the two teen boys accused of murder in Kasoa. The court presided by her worship, Rosemond Vera Ocloo, remanded the teenagers Felix Nyarko and Nicholas Kini into police custody to reappear on April 20, 2021. The family of the 11-year-old boy …
Read More »Teen relative, 15, arrested for brutal murder of four-year-old KwaMashu girl
A 15-year-old relative of slain KwaMashu girl Sanelisiwe Mhlongo has been arrested in connection with her brutal murder. The body of the four-year-old girl was discovered with multiple stab wounds last week. Police spokesperson Brig Jay Naicker said Sanelisiwe was allegedly left in the care of a relative while her mother was …
Read More »Cops set to appear for murder of Eldorado Park teen Nathaniel Julies
The Eldorado Park community is expected to come out in their numbers at the Protea magistrate’s court near Soweto on Monday as two police officers, accused of shooting dead an unarmed teenage boy, are set to make their first appearance. 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies was shot and killed in Eldorado Park, …
Read More »Teen couple in danger over blood convenant [Video]
Two teen lovers, who hail from the Ashanti region, are at the verge of losing their lives and sanity after a blood covenant they made to secure their relationship. Ama Agyemang,17, and Desmond Kwarteng, 19, sealed their commitment with a curse that any partner who has extra affairs should run …
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