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Gauteng woman sentenced for R4.59m fraud, money laundering scheme

The Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court has convicted and sentenced a 44-year-old woman for orchestrating a sophisticated fraud and money laundering scheme that...

KwaZulu-Natal municipality loses R255m in unspent infrastructure grant

A chronic failure by the ANC-run Umkhanyakde district municipality to spend its infrastructure grant has resulted in the withdrawal of the millions allocated to...

SAMRO board members ousted as artists exert pressure

Artists are celebrating a small victory following the departure of two SAMRO Board members, Veronica Motloutsi and Dr Sibongile Vilakazi. SAMRO announced the changes...

Parliament passes Immigration Amendment Bill

The National Assembly passed the Immigration Amendment Bill during its plenary sitting on Thursday. This was revealed by parliament's spokesperson Moloto Mothapo. Mothapo said the Immigration...

‘Over our dead bodies’: Soweto Marathon Trust declares 2025 race cancelled

Soweto Marathon, dubbed the People’s Race, will not take place this year; not while the founders of the Soweto Marathon Trust (SMT) are still...

Woman in R500k theft scandal at Sol Plaatje University granted bail

A woman who is accused of stealing more than R500 000 from Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley has been granted R2000 bail. This information was...

81-year-old shopkeeper nabbed for hawking expired, illegal food items

An 81-year-old man has been arrested in a multi-disciplinary sting operation in Parkweg, Bloemfontein, following the discovery of illegal and unauthorised goods at his...

Prosecutions boss declines to withdraw charges against SAFA head Danny Jordaan

The office of the newly appointed acting South Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has dismissed representations made by all of the accused in...

‘Portfolio committee slept at wheel as Gayton McKenzie made dodgy appointments’

Ismail Mahomed, the director at the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has accused parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts and...

ConCourt ruling on husbands assuming wives’ surnames slammed as ‘un-African’.

Cultural experts have lashed out at the Constitutional Court ruling giving the green light for husbands to assume the surnames of their wives. The unanimous...

AFU targets Tembisa Hospital after Babita Deokaran report

The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) of the National Prosecuting Authority has acted on the Johannesburg High Court order to restrain assets worth over R370...

KwaZulu-Natal town burns after municipality implements power cuts in township

The township of Mondlo in the northern KwaZulu-Natal town of Vryheid has become a site of skirmishes between the Abaqulusi local municipality and protestors...

Family of slain ANCYL leader Nkateko Maluleka calls for thorough probe...

The family of slain African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) provincial executive committee member Nkateko Maluleka is demanding a thorough and transparent investigation into...

‘We’ll switch off other areas to ensure you get water supply’:...

City of Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero met with frustrated Westbury, Newlands and Coronationville residents on Thursday to address ongoing water supply issues in the...

Three burnt beyond recognition in volatile Western Cape township

Three men were brutally assaulted, murdered, and set alight in a suspected vigilante attack in Kraaifontein on Wednesday night. The gruesome incident, which unfolded around...

100 people ordered to pay back money won from flawed online...

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has ordered over 100 individuals to repay millions in winnings they gained from a flawed online betting game...

Tragic taxi crash claims three young lives at KZN’s Imbali township

A devastating accident has rocked the community of KwaZulu-Natal township Imbali Unit 18, when a minibus taxi veered off the T6 road and crashed...

ConCourt rules that husbands can assume their wives’ surnames

The Constitutional Court has ruled in a unanimous judgement that husbands can assume their wives' surnames. The judgement by Justice Leona Theron was handed down...

Almost 1000 objections filed in R2.4bn ‘corrupt’ KZN school nutrition tender

The objection period in the R2.4-billion KwaZulu-Natal schools nutrition tender has opened the floodgates, as almost 1,000 bidders who believe they unfairly lost out...

Mashatile: We should not beg White House, Donald Trump wants regime...

ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile has called on South Africans not to bow before the White House despite the Donald Trump administration's crippling 30%...

Trial-within-a-trial in Kaizer Chiefs defender Luke Fleurs’ murder gets underway

The trial-within-a-trial related to the murder of Kaizer Chiefs defender Luke Fleurs got underway on Wednesday with a police officer testifying about how she...

Foreign nationals nabbed as gun used to kill six people found...

A 49-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of brutal shootings that claimed six lives in Kraaifontein on Tuesday, police commissioner...

‘G4S is law unto itself, Mangaung prison contract must be terminated’

Parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services has called for the contract that the Mangaung Correctional Centre has with private company G4S to be terminated...

DA presses Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya to reveal R270k repayment plan

The opposition in the City of Tshwane, Democratic Alliance, has accused Mayor Nasiphi Moya of misrepresenting herself in relation to the R270, 000 she...

Fannie Masemola urges cops to use wellness services following hostage incident

National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola, has once again called on members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) to make regular use of...

KZN municipality interdicted from awarding R89m wastewater tender

The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)-led Amajuba district municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal has been interdicted from awarding the R89-million Goodehoop wastewater and treatment works tender. This...

ANC, DA slam Gayton McKenzie’s PA loyalists in Mzansi Global Economy...

The Mzansi Golden Economy (MGE) process has come under fire, with calls for it to be dissolved due to serious flaws. This was the view...

Top KwaZulu-Natal public works official resigns after allegedly taking bribes

A top official of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has resigned from his position after he was accused of allegedly taking...

ASA ‘credit card scandal’ CEO puts Central Gauteng Association under administration

Athletics South Africa (ASA) has found itself in yet another controversy. This time, the organisation’s CEO, Terrence Magogodela, has placed Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA)...

Inequality in sports: Female athletes paid less

In South Africa, 55% of female footballers hold full-time contracts, yet only 40% receive a salary, according to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). At...

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