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SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Here’s your First Look at Jewel: A Netflix Original telling the Story of the ‘Sharpeville Massacre’ in South Africa | Premieres July 8th Telling original African stories with African actors, filmmakers is one of the strong suits of Netflix and that is what this new movie, Jewel is all about. ADVERTISEMENT Set to premier on Friday 8th of July 2022, Jewel is a Netflix Original movie that takes a deep dive and tells the compelling story of the Sharpeville massacre; an incident that occured in March 1960 in the Black township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging, South Africa, in which police fired on a crowd of Black people, killing or wounding some 250 of them. ADVERTISEMENT It was one of the first and most violent demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa. ADVERTISEMENT Written and directed by Adze Ugah w

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Nigerian Big Boy Arrested By Interpol Over Alleged $12m Fraud In South Africa James Aliyu, a Nigerian based in South Africa has been nabbed by the International Criminal Police Organization widely called Interpol over reported $12 million fraud. ADVERTISEMENT Reports from reliable source, he was arrested on Wednesday, June 29 in his plush Sandton estate with close to R196m in supposed romance scams and business email compromise fraud. ADVERTISEMENT Just like the famous Hushpuppi, James is popular due to his expensive lifestyle on the photos and video sharing platform and the exorbitant spending on luxury items on himself and his girlfriend. ADVERTISEMENT A Multi-agency investigation which linked Interpol, the US department of homeland security investigations and the US Secret Service nabbed this alleged scammer after 6 years of

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM S.African police search bar for clues after 21 teens die South African police were on Monday combing a township tavern where 21 teenagers mysteriously died as survivors described a battle to escape the jam-packed premises and one reported a suffocating smell. ADVERTISEMENT Most of the victims, some as young as 13 years, were found dead inside a popular bar in the southern city of East London. Seventeen were died inside the bar, while four died in hospital. Thirty-one others were hospitalised with symptoms including backache, tight chests, vomiting and headache, official said. Most were discharged on Sunday, leaving two in hospital, they said. ADVERTISEMENT The fatalities bore no visible signs of injury, sparking initial speculation among local officials and politicians that this was a case of under-age drinking that went tragically wro