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Gauteng government pays millions for empty buildings
A Sunday World investigation has uncovered that the Gauteng provincial government is paying tens of millions of rands every month to private landlords for...
Anglo American faces R55bn environmental liability disputes
Mining giant Anglo American is facing mounting pressure from community activists and regulators over environmental and social liabilities estimated at up to R55-billion, as...
Mpumalanga MECs accused of letting illegal miners on state land
The public protector has been asked to investigate whether land zoned for agricultural, rural, or residential use in Delmas, Mpumalanga, has been allowed to...
Inside the legal chess game: Mkhwanazi versus Mathibeli
KwaZulu-Natal top cop Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has launched an urgent High Court application in Durban seeking to halt what he describes as a sustained...
NEC members broker secret unity push between Maloyi and Mokgosi
A core of ANC national executive committee (NEC) members are quietly brokering talks to forge a unity pact between North West chairperson Nono Maloyi...
Gun in Mugabe shooting incident still missing
The shooting incident at the upscale Johannesburg home of one of the sons of the late former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has shocked the...
Private security boss Calvin Mathibeli reveals police plan to assassinate him
The tense war between the private security businessman Calvin Mathibeli and the KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is escalating like a hurricane.
Mathibeli,...
BREAKING | Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died aged 84
American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister Jesse Louis Jackson has died. He was 84 years old.
According to a source close to...
Chief rabbi must stop spreading lies about SA
With the latest outburst of misinformation and blatant lies from Warren Goldstein, the Zionist chief rabbi of the Union of Orthodox Synagogues, we must...
Nersa clarifies solar registration rules for households
South Africa’s energy regulator has moved to calm the growing public anxiety around the registration of rooftop solar and other small-scale embedded generation systems,...
ANC Joburg secretary accuses City Power chair of party ‘factionalism’
Drama surrounding the controversial ANC Johannesburg regional leadership elections has escalated, with regional secretary Sasabona Manganye seeking answers from a prominent party member over...
Cogta MEC Saki Mokoena hands over 20 houses to beneficiaries in...
The department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) and Human settlements MEC Saki Mokoena on Wednesday handed over 20 houses to rightful beneficiaries...
ANC Joburg elective conference agency blames cops and ANC over ‘unlawful’...
Elections Management and Consulting Agency of Africa (EMCA), a company that presided over the ANC Johannesburg elective conference in December last year, is accusing...
‘We are not coping’: grief overwhelms community after fatal accident
It’s been a painful week for Mpho Mofukunyane, head for the Foundation Phase at El Shadai Private School in Vanderbijlpark.
The school lost four pupils...
South Africa urges UN to act after Donald Trump ordered attack...
The South African government has raised concerns regarding the military attack carried out by the US under its state president Donald Trump’s instructions.
In a statement...
Urgent court bid to halt President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of top...
A high-stakes legal challenge has been launched to halt President Cyril Ramaphosa from appointing the next National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) next month,...
MEC Saki Mokoena to deliver houses as Christmas gifts in Bethlehem,...
In a gesture aligned with the spirit of the season, Free State MEC for Cooperative Governance and Human Settlements, Saki Mokoena, will hand over...
More carnage in the Free State as overloaded bus kills three,...
Three people were killed and more than 70 injured early on Monday when an overloaded bus overturned on the N1 highway in the Free...
Popular DJ Warras becomes latest disk jockey to be gunned down...
South Africa’s music industry has been rocked following reports that a popular DJ and nightlife personality was shot and killed at the Carlton Centre...
Can Mbalula’s diagnosis overcome the ANC’s political pathology?
The ANC’s mid-term report presented this week by party secretary-general Fikile Mbalula is remarkable work. For once, the language is not shrouded in the...
Low income earners pay highest price for off-grid solar
Across sub-Saharan Africa, off-grid solar has long been marketed as a cheaper, decentralised, cleaner and entrepreneurial alternative to limited public electricity.
However, new analysis reveals...
Duduzile Zuma resigns from parliament following Ukraine scandal
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of the President of the MK Party, has resigned as a Member of Parliament (MP) with immediate effect.
Zuma-Sambudla’s resignation was...
Municipal manager arrested for alleged theft of electricity transformers worth R1.9m
The municipal manager of the Ngwathe local municipality in Free State has been arrested by the Hawks for alleged fraud, theft, money laundering and...
Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae’s spin doctor slapped with defamation lawsuit
The controversial spokesperson of the Free State premier has been slapped with the letter of demand by the lawyers of the well-known businessman in...
Road Accident Fund board places top executives on suspension
The embattled Road Accident Fund (RAF) has placed three senior executives and the head of the office of the chief executive on precautionary suspension.
The...
Gwede Mantashe’s “A se mo States” moment against Zondo commission
In a ruling that could have been soundtracked by the Brothers of Peace kwaito classic hit, "O kae molao, ha se mo States mo,”...
King Misuzulu trounces rival Prince Simakade in Supreme Court of Appeal
The Supreme Court of Appeal has set aside the 2023 judgment by Pretoria High Court by Judge Norman Davis which ruled that President Cyril...
Samro shuts undocumented works royalties portal over R24m fraud suspicion
The Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) has decided to shut down the undocumented works royalties portal after it suspected fraudulent claims which were...
