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Lesufi links vehicles to crime as Gauteng launches new number plate system

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Magwenya: Ramaphosa optimistic after Trump meeting boosts US-SA ties

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SA could see white as snowfall is expected in six provinces

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Bottled water demand spikes amid outages, here’s how much it costs at 6 stockists

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Crime These are Gauteng’s hotspots for murder, rape, kidnapping, carjacking and house robbery

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Two arrested and charged for IFP deputy chief whip’s ‘assassination’

Higher education chair condemns WSU student protest as EFF launches petition

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Lesufi links vehicles to crime as Gauteng launches new number plate system

Three house robbers shot dead in gun battle with police in Sandton, one arrested

Magwenya: Ramaphosa optimistic after Trump meeting boosts US-SA ties

SA could see white as snowfall is expected in six provinces

Bottled water demand spikes amid outages, here’s how much it costs at 6 stockists

EDITOR'S CHOICE

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Weather alert: Very cold, wet and windy conditions to hit the three Capes

Pilot killed, passenger injured in aircraft crash in Lanseria

WATCH: Children fall from airborne jumping castle

Tourism minister: SA is safe for visitors despite updated US travel advisory

Greenpeace slams Coca-Cola over plastic packaging at World Environment Day protest

Come rain or snow, Joburg Emergency Service on high alert

Japanese startup attempts historic moon landing

Trio convicted for brutal farm attack in Eastern Cape

Planned water shutdown to hit parts of Hammanskraal on Monday

Creecy steps in to resolve dispute over Acsa baggage screening services

These are Gauteng’s hotspots for murder, rape, kidnapping, carjacking and house robbery

City of Cape Town’s 13-hour water outage: These areas will be affected

‘This is what happens in a SA run by blacks’: Senzo Meyiwa trial judge fires off explosive rant

‘No justification for tampering with the constitution’: MK party and DA slug it out over no-confidence motion limits

Gauteng to bask under clear winter skies this weekend

Arrested CIT heist crooks ‘out on bail’ when they held up truck in Tshwane

Two arrested and charged for IFP deputy chief whip’s ‘assassination’

Higher education chair condemns WSU student protest as EFF launches petition

Man sentenced to eight years in jail for cybercrime

WATCH: Steenhuisen’s controversial chief of staff Roman Cabanac’s contract terminated

Education department clears the air on school calendar ‘changes’

Russia signals severe retaliation after Ukraine’s strikes

Ramaphosa mourns passing of photographer Rashid Lombard

Security crisis at hospitals and clinics sparks fear and protest

Parts of Mbombela to be without electricity for 12 hours

Ghost workers drain billions from public funds