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Weather alert: Another wet day across most of SA

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Public Protector finds maladministration cost taxpayers billions in Charlotte Maxeke hospital fire repairs

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Will Joburg Zoo’s elephants go free? Inside the court battle to return them to the wild

Crime

Police launch manhunt after 4 murders in one area of Eastern Cape

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Mental health NGOs in Gauteng finally getting paid, but some still waiting due to compliance gaps

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Courts Witness D murder case: Defence cites Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe precedence to argue for Sotheni’s bail

Politics Al Jama-ah supports Amad as DA opens case over ‘symbolic’ gunshots fired at funeral

News Two polio virus strains detected in Cape Town wastewater – NICD

Politics R3.8 billion loan to save ‘broke’ Johannesburg fails … for now

News SA’s groundwater reserves far from depleted, experts say

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Africa

Senegal PM Sonko rejects Western criticism over anti-LGBTQ law

World

Australian climber smashes Everest sea-to-summit record in 50 days

News

We keep asking ‘what about the boys?’ – Here’s a GBV movement answering it

Courts

Witness D murder case: Defence cites Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe precedence to argue for Sotheni’s bail

Politics

Will formation of ANC task team in Eastern Cape boost Mbalula’s political ambitions?

News

Gauteng health department cracks down on ghost employees and payroll fraud

Crime

Murder cases down almost 10%, with majority reported in these four provinces

Crime

Police rescue endangered leopard tortoise from North West shebeen

Weather

Will the fog lift? Cape Town’s weekend weather

Politics

Al Jama-ah supports Amad as DA opens case over ‘symbolic’ gunshots fired at funeral

News

Storms: Western Cape residents still without power two weeks later

News

Do data centres harm our human rights? SAHRC launches investigation

News

Two polio virus strains detected in Cape Town wastewater – NICD

Politics

R3.8 billion loan to save ‘broke’ Johannesburg fails … for now

Education

GDE breaks silence after Dulcie September school protest

Courts

Mozambican national jailed for rape and murder of 11-year-old girl in South Africa

South Africa

Grantor glitches not behind NPO payment delays, says Social Development

News

Rand Water maintenance to leave these Joburg areas dry for days

Opinion

A VIEW OF THE WEEK: No load shedding in more than a year, so why do you still stockpile candles?

News

Borehole regulation proposals spark backlash

News

SAHRC probes Dis‑Chem’s Mark Saltzman over alleged racial slur

News

SA’s groundwater reserves far from depleted, experts say

Crime

Saps officials confiscate more than R150 000 worth of cannabis and arrests five during stop and search operation

News

Gauteng trauma care crisis leaves patient fighting for life in ambulance

Opinion

Smartphones may be driving the world’s collapsing birth rate

Politics

Cape Independence group asks Trump to pressure government into referendum