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Majodina criticises politicians using ‘water crisis’ for electoral advantage at Brixton reservoir launch

News

From salaries to crime fighting: How Saps will spend its R127 billion budget

News

Postbank customers, here are some changes you need to know

Courts

Ex-boyfriend sentenced to 18 years in jail for domestic violence

Politics

Questions raised over internal democracy in MK party as it announces provincial task teams

Courts

Bellarmine Mugabe receives lenient sentence, Tobias Matonhodze to serve jail time

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News From salaries to crime fighting: How Saps will spend its R127 billion budget

News Rubio’s Freedom Day message sparks cautious optimism for SA-US ties

South Africa Here are the 22 entities entrusted with R12.5 billion border upgrade projects

News Mogotsi moves to block Chaskalson from leading his testimony at Madlanga commission

Politics City of Joburg told to ‘stop taking loans’ and collect the money it’s owed

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South Africa

Eskom, South32 forge deal to power Africa’s largest aluminium smelter

Crime

KZN doctor arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting patients in hospital

News

Shack fire claims life of 36-year-old man in KZN

News

DSD under fire as investigations into salary kickbacks, fraudulent CVs and undeclared luxury cars mount against Minister Tolashe

Courts

Man jailed for extortion in Bedfordview murder plot scam

Crime

Mob justice horror: Three burned alive in Gqeberha, police launch manhunt

News

Rubio’s Freedom Day message sparks cautious optimism for SA-US ties

Opinion

32 years of freedom: What is there to celebrate?

South Africa

Here are the 22 entities entrusted with R12.5 billion border upgrade projects

News

Arena Holdings and Sanef to probe Sunday Times editor link to irregular NLC payments

Opinion

Thawing US-SA relations are a positive sign

South Africa

32 years of democracy, 35 years of Orania

News

Education activist backs Gwarube’s call for probe into R285m textbook scandal

News

Heavy traffic expected in Tshwane as Post Office workers march – these streets will be affected

Opinion

Cartoon of the day: 29 April 2026

Crime

Joburg CBD triple murder: ‘Criminals in South Africa act without fear’

Opinion

Stop borrowing, make them pay

Opinion

What it takes to build stable coalitions

Opinion

Building aid Bric by Bric

News

Mogotsi moves to block Chaskalson from leading his testimony at Madlanga commission

Opinion

The 4am unnatural alarm clock

Courts

Former Saps officers jailed for witness tampering in ANC leader Nxumalo murder case

Crime

Drug mule crackdown: Four arrested in three days at OR Tambo Airport

News

In case you missed it: Mkhwanazi and Lerutla granted bail | Stranger pocketing granny’s grant | Overcrowding in Gauteng schools

News

Election reform panel split on way forward but agrees public is growing disinterested

Lifestyle

Man pleads guilty in Austria to plotting attack on Taylor Swift concert