Politics
SADC battles cash crunch as DRC conflict, Ebola test region’s resilience
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing mounting financial pressure at a time when conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), declining...
Outrage as TVET college hires 10 foreigners ahead of South Africans
The Gert Sibande TVET college in Mpumalanga has been exposed for employing a ten lecturers who are foreign nationals without the consideration of South...
Blow to Fikile Mbalula as ANC loses another high court case
The latest Eastern Cape High Court judgment delivered on Thursday has gone beyond being just a legal defeat to be a devastating political indictment...
Justice Madlanga dangles possibility of ‘killing IDAC altogether’
Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has raised the startling possibility that the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) could be scrapped altogether, saying the commission's final recommendations...
Long weekend in jail for suspended EMPD deputy chief Mkhwanazi
Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi will remain in custody over the long weekend.
His bail application was postponed to August...
Mpumalanga gets rid of cleaning tenders, opts to insource workers
The Mpumalanga provincial government has approved plans to phase out reliance on outsourced cleaning contracts and instead employ cleaners directly, in a move it...
Phala Phala review case seeks new lawyers after legal team withdraws
A foundation challenging Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka’s findings on the Phala Phala farm matter has launched an urgent appeal for lawyers to take...
Batohi ignored IDAC misconduct reports: Sesoko tells Madlanga
The Madlanga Commission on Thursday heard explosive testimony that repeated internal complaints about alleged misconduct inside the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) reached the...
Nigerian forces rescue 308 kidnap victims, presidency says
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Nigerian security forces have rescued 308 people abducted in separate attacks in northern Niger and Kwara states, in what President Bola Tinubu described as
Madlanga calls for disciplinary action against Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya
President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission, confirming that the Section 84 presidential fact-finding body has recommended disciplinary...
Lotto results for Wednesday, August 5 2026
Lotto results for Wednesday, August 5 2026
Lotto: 17 | 23 | 29 | 31 |33 |40 ...
Ramaphosa to take SADC reins as SA pushes migration, trade agenda
South Africa is preparing to assume the chairpersonship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) later this month, with President Cyril Ramaphosa expected to...
Cyril Ramaphosa says bid to overturn Phala Phala interdict lacks merit
President Cyril Ramaphosa has formally opposed an application seeking to overturn a court order that temporarily halted Parliament's Section 89 impeachment inquiry into the...
‘Plan was to set up Masemola’: Idac ‘scheme’ exposed at Madlanga
The Madlanga commission heard explosive evidence on Wednesday that former Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) head Adv Andrea Johnson allegedly instructed her team to...
Analysis| Why Jacob Zuma is not stupid
So, MKP leader and former head of state Jacob Zuma has appointed his son Duduzane Zuma as his deputy.
And it is people who matter...
State freezes R6.2m in alleged MultiChoice piracy crackdown
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has struck a major blow against alleged digital piracy, freezing more than R6.2 million believed to be the proceeds...
SAPS bosses identify cop caught slapping woman on video
Mpumalanga police have instituted disciplinary proceedings against a police officer after a video circulating on social media showed him allegedly slapping a woman carrying...
DR Congo Ebola outbreak outstrips response as cases near 3,900
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is continuing to outpace response efforts, with confirmed cases nearing 3,900 and no...
Accused ‘hitman’ stands firm at Meyiwa murder trial
The man accused of pulling the trigger that killed Bafana-Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa is refusing to back down. This as the murder trial continues...
Opposition parties’ Madonsela SC clinches key Phala Phala committee post
The ANC suffered another political setback on Wednesday after Parliament's Section 89 Impeachment Committee rejected its preferred candidate for evidence leader in President Cyril...
Lithium mining for green power triggers eco-outcry from SA farmers
MAGOG, South Africa, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Mining lithium for batteries is a growing part of South Africa's plan to use the global shift towards green energy to revive its economy, but now it faces a
Mbalula mulls defamation suit over Dlamini-Zuma’s vote-buying claims
African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile "Vutha" Mbalula, in his personal capacity, is consulting his lawyers with a view to suing ANC National Executive...
‘You can never win on social media,’ Madlanga tells witness
Madlanga Commission chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga on Tuesday peeled back the curtain on the often unforgiving world of social media, telling a witness before...
Cape Town airport runway reopens after Kenya plane tyre failure
CAPE TOWN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - An airplane's tyre burst on landing at Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, causing flight disruptions as the main runway was closed though all passengers
Maj-Gen Philani Lushaba was victim of sex work syndicate, Idac prosecutor...
A senior Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) prosecutor has told the Madlanga Commission that Maj-Gen Philani Lushaba appeared to be the victim of a...
‘We are ready for NHI,’ says Premier Mandla Ndlovu
Mpumalanga Premier Mandla Ndlovu on Tuesday declared the province ready for the rollout of National Health Insurance (NHI), using the official opening of the...
Powerball results for Tuesday, August 4 2026
Powerball results for Tuesday, August 4 2026
Powerball numbers:
16| 24 | 29 |34| 38 Powerball: 15
Powerball Xtra numbers:
05 | 20 | 21 | 36 |...
Families of slain cyclists still waiting for justice
A landmark court victory has given one grieving family closure, but three other cyclist death cases remain bogged down in the legal system, prompting...
Inside Parly Impeachment Committee’s affidavit, appealing Cyril Ramaphosa’s interdict
Parliament's impeachment committee chairperson Makashule Gana has asked the Constitutional Court to urgently overturn a Western Cape High Court ruling that brought the impeachment...
‘We were homeboys’: Idac prosecutor explains why he dumped CI case
One of the country's most senior graft-fighting prosecutors withdrew from a high-profile Crime Intelligence prosecution after realising one of the accused was a childhood...































