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Death at Limpopo rehab centre: family demands justice after alleged assault
The family of 22-year-old Thato Dikgwatlheng who died at the Hope of Achievers Rehabilitation Centre (HOARC) in Segwashi village outside Polokwane is accusing the...
Mandela family’s pro-Israel blooper
Nelson Mandela’s two granddaughters have come under fire for heaping praise on the State of Israel, which stands accused of genocide, following their controversial...
70-year-old hits the streets in her running shoes – and all...
It’s 2014, and Joyce Nduku is turning 60. Unlike most sixty-year-olds cooling off from years of work, to recline into sedentary lives, Joyce Nduku...
Windfall for SA media as Competition Commission rules against global search...
The findings of the Competition Commission have laid bare how search engine multinational Google’s dominance, which has seen it monopolise the local media industry,...
‘Filth fills streets, beaches’ after eThekwini suspends supplier portal
Merrymakers could have a nasty surprise when they land in Durban for their Festive Season holidays next month - filth overflowing the streets and...
Farmer locks out land claim beneficiaries in defiance of court order
A white farmer has effectively cocked a snook at the courts, locking out the black beneficiaries of a land reform project in a dispute...
Prasa top boss Asif Rehman in vehicles scandal costing millions
A bombshell forensic investigation has exposed how Passenger Rail Agency (Prasa) executive Asif Rehman brazenly approved millions in illegal payments while the entity’s vehicle...
SCA brings tragic story of three drinking buddies to an end
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has brought to a close a tragic story that began with three “friends” going out for drinks one...
In the Sunday World today
Nelson Mandela’s two granddaughters have come under fire for heaping praise on the State of Israel, which stands accused of genocide, following their controversial...
Public Protector asked to probe top KZN police officers
Mozambican businessman Esmeal Nangy, his brother-in-law Setefane da Costa Brites, and Lebombo border post police officer Samkeliso Mlotshwa have approached the Public Protector to...
Shadow of past foreign interference casts a pall over G20
South African security agencies are observing a planned domestic campaign against gender-based violence with a heightened degree of caution, a vigilance rooted in the...
Police raid warehouses and shops in R30m counterfeit blitz
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has hailed the success of a two-week crime crackdown that left counterfeit and illicit traders reeling across three...
Young African change-makers ensuring her narratives don’t die amidst global discourse
The humid air of the Amazon hangs heavy as dusk settles over the sprawling city of Belem, a world away from the familiar heat...
Namibia chases ambitious goal to bring electricity to most of its...
Anna Libana’s phone glowed persistently in the subdued light of the lobby as she scrolled through messages and notes, while the corridors of COP30...
Africa’s youngest citizens can carry climate change fight forward
Hilary Savi has been shuttling from one meeting room to the next at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, her notebook filling quickly with ideas gleaned...
The rot inside the EMPD criminal enterprise: murder, copper cable theft,...
Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) members dumping a body in a dam, stealing copper cables and kidnapping an EMPD official.
These are some of the...
State fails to give Senzo Meyiwa murder accused medical care
Fisokuhle Ntuli, accused number five in the ongoing Senzo Meyiwa murder trial that sits before the Pretoria High Court, did not receive the medical...
Budget shortfall leaves SA’s HIV and TB programmes reeling
South Africa’s battle against HIV and AIDS and tuberculosis is staggering on the brink of disaster, with a staggering R1.4-billion annual funding shortfall.
According to...
Disciplinary hearing for Central Gauteng Athletics officials put on ice indefinitely
The crisis within Athletics South Africa (ASA) has escalated after the disciplinary hearing of five Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA) members was postponed indefinitely, with...
Home Affairs reveals Palestinian travellers did not seek asylum
Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber has clarified that a group of 153 travellers arriving from Palestine via Nairobi had no intention of seeking...
EMPD official relives abduction incident ‘linked’ to Vusimuzi Matlala
Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD) spokesperson and head of media and public relations unit, Lt-Col Kelebogile Thepa, relived a 2023 incident where she was...
Infrastructure collapses where ethics fail, warns Mpumalanga MEC
South Africa’s multibillion-rand infrastructure plans are at risk of permanent paralysis unless ethical governance becomes the starting point of every project, Mpumalanga public works...
Late kwaito starlet Mshoza’s family still await her music royalties
The late Kwaito star Nomasonto “Mshoza” Maswanganyi’s children are surviving on their grandfather’s pension, as her music royalties remain unpaid.
This emerged during a march...
Entity moves to interdict Vodacom from paying Please Call Me inventor...
A mining entity has launched an urgent court application to interdict Vodacom from paying "Please Call Me" inventor Nkosana Makate hundreds of millions in...
NPA, judiciary must explain how Shadrack Sibiya associate got slap on...
The head of detectives in KwaZulu-Natal, Major General Anthony Gopaul, has thrown the ball into the court of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and...
Taxi bosses slam G20 road closures: ‘Our families will starve’
World leaders are expected to arrive in the country as early as next week for the highly anticipated G20 Summit. An event that will...
Disbanded KZN SACP structure vows to fight decision, including going to...
The provincial executive committee (PEC) of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in KwaZulu-Natal, which was last disbanded, has vowed to fight tooth and...
Herman Mashaba’s scathing rebuke against Samro: ‘You continue failing artists’
ActionSA president Herman Mashaba joined hundreds of artists, composers, and creatives who took to the streets of Johannesburg on Thursday under the banner of...
Ex-cop jailed for performing sangoma-inspired sexual ritual on son
A former Mpumalanga police officer who filmed herself performing disturbing sexual acts on her 12-year-old son to appease a sangoma—and later found herself blackmailed...
‘SAPS employee deleted criminal records of General Shadrack Sibiya’s associate’
The police in KwaZulu-Natal have made shocking revelations that in January, one of its employees in the national office in Pretoria accessed its criminal...
