South Africa

Taxpayers paid R22-billion in insurance claims for the July unrest

Joburg to defend drastic school rates increase in court

Crime

Mamelodi tavern gunmen ‘like hunters’

North West council rocked by dispute over acting municipal manager

Getting rid of Police Minister Bheki Cele won’t solve crime problem

Illegal initiation schools in Limpopo face shutdown

Courts

Presidency lambasts Advocate Teffo

Ramaphosa hits back at Holomisa, won’t testify at Mkhwebane’s impeachment hearing

Zoo hopes to debunk myths about owls, show their benefits

Blade Nzimande slams ‘capitalist greed’, wants more industrialisation

SACP leader Blade Nzimande bows out

Did Bheki Cele lie about his parents being a ‘kitchen girl’ and ‘garden boy’?

Courts

Crypto developer Riccardo Spagni in court for defrauding cookie company

Crime

Eastern Cape man hands himself over to police after girlfriend’s death

Courts

R93m Transnet corruption case postponed to August for further investigations

Watch: Mouse shopping for groceries at V&A store – Pick n Pay responds

Courts

Advocate Teffo ‘incompetent’, antics distracted from merits of Meyiwa trial

Rooibos industry paid R12 million to Khoi and San community in historic move

Crime

Cele claims police thwarted security threats that made July riots ‘look like a Sunday picnic’

Pride of lions escape from Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park in KZN

Courts

Ex-Transnet executives back in court, more arrests expected

Updated: Police arrest Enyobeni tavern owner and two employees

Property Practitioners watchdog chairperson’s alleged double identities under investigation

Companies scrap mandatory vaccine policies – will dismissed employees be reinstated?