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Kempton Park serial killer fears: Saps warns women after four bodies found

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In case you missed it: Man arrested over Parliament security breach | Ramaphosa pushes UN reform at Brics | Search intensifies for missing runner

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Africa Braces for strongest El Niño since 1950 – heat, drought and floods loom

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Saps intensifies search for missing Kempton Park runner

Crime

High‑speed chase ends in R2 million dagga bust on N4

South Africa

Eskom slams inflated Kusile, Medupi cost reports, confirms official budgets

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Crime Kempton Park serial killer fears: Saps warns women after four bodies found

News WATCH: Anastasia Fourie shines at Zulu Reed Dance as 30 000 maidens gather in KZN

Courts Bafana Mahungela found guilty of Kirsten Kluyts’ murder

Business Transnet posts profit for the first time in four years, but still long way to go to recovery

News Petition against Eskom’s 8.83% tariff hike passes 5 700 signatures as public hearing looms

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Parliament security breach: Man arrested after unlawful entry into precinct

Weather

Weather alert: Damaging winds, storms and rough seas loom

News

WATCH: Anastasia Fourie shines at Zulu Reed Dance as 30 000 maidens gather in KZN

Education

TUT students get Nsfas funding restored after code errors

South Africa

Ramaphosa demands UN reform, accountability at Brics Summit in India

Courts

Western Cape department loses appeal over pothole crash that cost motorcyclist his leg

News

South Africa has new electricity pricing rules after 18 years: what it gets right and wrong

Elections 2026

‘Stop these murders’: KZN police tells parties to ‘compete without violence’ amid political killings

Elections 2026

Elections on water: Another ‘decade of decline’ in Limpopo as water access tightens

News

In case you missed it: ‘Cash-for-driver’s licence’ scheme bust | Sandton school teacher’s killer guilty | Shekhinah is a mother

World

‘We have no justice’: US marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

Crime

‘Cash-for-driver’s licence’ scheme uncovered at Limpopo testing centre, four arrested [PICS]

Courts

Parenting tiff lands Northern Cape man in jail for assault and strangulation

News

Saturday’s weather: Fine and warm in Gauteng and NW as cold rain hits WC

Crime

Free State police arrest rape suspect after five years on the run

Courts

Brown Mogotsi says he ditched bodyguards to see sangoma on day of alleged hit

News

Video: Second rescue practitioner pulls plug on Libertas GH

News

Joburg urges residents to check water use as unexplained water bills raise concern

World

Philippine Coast Guard finds bodies aboard ferry after blaze

Africa

Nigeria bans legislators from working with, visiting South Africa

News

Life imprisonment for Limpopo father who killed daughter, torched mother’s house

South Africa

Sassa debunks fake R500 chronic illness grant message

Crime

Free State man sentenced for murdering girlfriend and 18-month-old

News

‘You said you were going to look after my rights’: Bafana Mahungela feels ‘tricked’ after guilty verdict

Courts

New accused in DJ Warras murder case abandons bail

News

Shebeshxt trial postponed to May 2027 despite bid to remove magistrate