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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...

Senzo Meyiwa murder suspect accuses prison wardens of assault

Accused number five in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Fisokuhle Ntuli, told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday that he had been assaulted by...

Mpumalanga municipality fined R650m over sewage spills endangering residents

Emalahleni local municipality has been whipped into shape after the Mbombela High Court fined it R650-million for years of sewage spills that polluted major...

Passenger dies, two others injured after bus came under fire in...

A woman passenger has been shot dead, and two others have been left injured after a bus they were travelling in came under a...

Senzo Meyiwa murder trial: Nhlahlezi Zungu claims cops told him what...

The defence in the murder trial of the late Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa on Wednesday presented a new witness, Absalom Nhlahlezi Zungu, the...

Calvin Rafadi invited to Madlanga Commission after being exposed by Mkhwanazi

Controversial crime expert and founder of Bizz Tracers, Calvin Rafadi, has been invited to the Madlanga Commission, where he will have an opportunity to...

Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya cracks down on brothels run by illegal...

Four Chinese nationals have been arrested in Pretoria’s central business district (CBD) after Tshwane Executive Mayor Nasiphi Moya, along with Metro Police, uncovered a...

Boitumelo Mokhare cleared of murder plot allegations against husband

Nearly three years after being accused of conspiring to kill her husband, prominent advocate William Mokhare, Boitumelo Joyce Mokhare has been cleared of all...

Ex-Idols star accused of ordering hit on former fiancé

Ntando Mkhulise has lodged a formal complaint with the Portfolio Committee on Police and the Magistrate Commission, accusing law enforcement of failing to investigate...

How Cyril Ramaphosa administration plans to slam brakes on runaway debt

The National Treasury is planning to use the primary budget surplus to significantly reduce the ballooning gross debt-to-GDP in the coming years. According to the...

Popular Limpopo musician Shebeshxt arrested for attempted murder

Police in Limpopo have arrested a well-known musician during an intelligence-driven operation on Wednesday morning in the upscale suburb of Bendor, outside of Polokwane. According...

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla trial: The phrase ‘we see you’ did not incite...

The complainant, whose case with the South African Police Service resulted in Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla being charged for allegedly inciting violence during the unrest in...

Premier Phophi Ramathuba welcomes Limpopo’s drastic drop in unemployment

Phophi Ramathuba, the premier of Limpopo, has expressed joy after the province's unemployment rate dropped dramatically from 35% in the second quarter of 2025...

Transgender inmate wins landmark court case for state-funded hormone therapy

A transgender prisoner serving a life sentence at the Johannesburg Correctional Centre, also known as Sun City, has won a landmark Equality Court case...