South Africa

Courts

Murder for R2 500: Man gets life imprisonment for assassinating KZN ward councillor

‘It’s a drama, it’s a show’ – Ndlozi unhappy with ‘disorganised’ Parliament amid budget votes

Political parties demand debate over R200 electricity service fee

Courts

Another court blow for City of Cape Town against EFF and Bulelani Qolani

‘We can’t repeat the history of dysfunction’: Ian Cameron gets Parliament police oversight role

NGO to haul Cricket SA to court over David Teeger saga

Got an illegal connection? You may be in the dark from November

ANC’s Mhlakaza-Manamela elected Gauteng deputy speaker

Mismanagement of public funds a big issue, says new Scopa chair

Nersa clarifies position on TotalEnergies’ offshore joint venture

Community Chat: How do you best live with monkeys?

Tourist family hijacked in Mbombela: Another blue-light crime?

Search is on for KZN’s top young farmer

Ballito residents debate monkey problem

Pretorius looking forward to his Comrades green number

MK party: Zuma makes U-turn on Arthur Zwane’s resignation

Courts

Court dismisses government’s appeal, orders action plan to protect buses

Census data ‘unfit for purpose’ – experts

Courts

Esidimeni tragedy: Families hope prosecutions will follow

Daily news update: Ex-MEC liable in Life Esidimeni | Police hunt two in Freitag murder | Ex-VBS boss sentenced to 495 years

Limpopo premier’s big plan for jobs in road repair

Zuma appoints Magasela Mzobe as MK party’s head of presidency

Courts

Gauteng government accepts High Court ruling on Life Esidimeni

Crime

Police say two on the run for former high jump star Jacques Freitag’s murder

Baragwanath Hospital urges families to collect loved ones’ bodies

Damaging winds, heavy rain and high fire danger in several areas

Crime

SAHRC condemns recent attacks against the elderly

WATCH: Western Cape may close up to 53 schools due to severe weather, 5 000 displaced

Crime

Eastern Cape mother arrested for horrific murder of toddler

‘That would be thuggery’ – National Taxi Alliance on e-hailing protection payments

Dirco and Home Affairs ‘addressing’ change in Ireland’s visa-free stance

Crime

Inside Western Cape’s plan to lockdown gang lands

ANC’s Cyril Xaba elected unopposed as eThekwini mayor

Courts

Court sentences former VBS boss Tshifhiwa Matodzi to 495 years

Suspects can’t afford R1k bail – Groenewald‘s overcrowding prison headache

Cape Storm: WC braces for another day of heavy rain and flooding

Community Chat: Does SA have a kidnapping crisis?

Major power outage in Pretoria

SAPS rescues two kidnapping victims held in Crystal Park

24 vehicles impounded during KaMhlushwa operation

KZN runaway veld fires claim the life of an elderly man

11 primary school learners die in horror crash outside Carletonville

Ramaphosa congratulates Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian

Crime

Hazyview farm manager found guilty of fraud worth R4.4m

Gayton McKenzie vows to fire ‘corrupt mafias’ and dodgy politically connected

Explosive devices found at Durban mosque

Esidimeni families relive tragedy of 144 deaths

Mixed reactions to John Hlophe’s JSC role

ActionSA calls out Home Affairs minister’s first move

KZN mom endures long wait for vital surgery

Ford workers persist in strike despite court order

Strike season: Country could lose 1.6m work days

Improved online system for Gauteng school admissions 2025

Daily news update: Hlophe appointed to JSC | Explosives found at mosque | Challenges rock return to school

SANDF confirms another soldier killed in DRC explosion

Black Lawyers Association supports impeached judge Hlophe’s legal right to sit on JSC

WATCH: Three rivers burst their banks in Cape Town as weather service warns of more snowfall and flooding until Friday

IFP’s Poobalan Govender elected as NCOP deputy chairperson

Weather havoc closes five Western Cape schools

Attacks, flooding, cold and vandalism rock return to school

Online applications for grades 1 and 8 now open: Here are the dos and don’t to keep in mind

‘MK party has done a huge justice to Parliament’ – MP after Hlophe’s JSC nomination (VIDEO)

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Nearly 22 million adults in South Africa are without a Matric Qualification

Attempted bombing at Durban mosque a suspected ‘act of terror’

Community Chat: How have you beaten the cold?

Crime

DIY explosives found at KZN mosque, police search for suspects

Gayton McKenzie halts all trips for superfans

Look: Snow turns parts of SA into winter wonderland

Crime

Theft of classroom roof disrupts learning at North West school

‘System offline at Home Affairs should be a swear word’ says Leon Schreiber

Local runner brutally stabbed to death while jogging

AFS leads in cleaning up Mulbarton Circle intersection

Eskom implements load reduction, but load shedding remains suspended

Energy poverty and solar power impact Eskom

Foreign policy tensions rise between ANC and DA