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Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi pays tribute to Hosi N’wamitwa II

The breast that fed the nation has fallen. The voice that shouted the loudest in places where silence was a betrayal has been silenced....

Young Zambian engineers embracing AI to create local solutions

Twenty-year-old software engineering student Innocent Mugwadi presents a slideshow in the front of a classroom before his fellow classmates at the Information and Communications...

Powerball results for Friday, February 20, 2026

  Powerball:           17 | 19 | 25 | 28 | 35 |     Powerball:   17 Powerball plus:    07 | 08 |...

Mpumalanga holds its breath as Hawks hint at high profile arrests

Tension is thick in Mpumalanga ahead of Sunday’s planned take-down operation by the Hawks, with growing expectations that the long arm of the law...

Murders drop again, but bloodshed still ‘unacceptably high’, warns Firoz Cachalia

South Africa recorded another decline in murders during the third quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, but the Acting Minister of Police, Firoz Cachalia,...

Water supply stabilised says Deputy President Paul Mashatile

According to Deputy President Paul Mashatile, Gauteng residents are out of the troubled waters. He said government interventions have helped stabilise water supply challenges in...

Drivers to pay more at toll gates as Sanral pushes through...

Motorists using South Africa’s toll routes will soon dig slightly deeper into their pockets after Sanral confirmed a 3.12% tariff increase effective March 1,...

Gauteng acting judge president lays complaint against graft-accused judge Portia Phahlane

Acting Gauteng Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba has laid a complaint against Judge Portia Phahlane following her recent arrest over alleged corruption. This was revealed in...

Ramaphosa defends his plan for a National Water Crisis Committee

President Cyril Ramaphosa has doubled down on his governing model of crisis “command centres”, defending the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM) as the mechanism...

Suspended police boss Shadrack Sibiya claims MKP target him 

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya insisted during a tense exchange at the Madlanga commission of inquiry that coordinated attacks, including those by...

Shadrack Sibiya admits close ties to witness F but denies graft

Suspended deputy National Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya has acknowledged a close personal relationship with a key witness at the Madlanga commission of inquiry. However,...

Robert Mugabe’s son nabbed after gardener was shot and injured

The police have arrested the son of Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, who ruled the southern African nation for 37 years until...

Ex-British prince Andrew arrested as Epstein-linked misconduct probe deepens

The United Kingdom’s disgraced former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has once again sprung into public scrutiny after his arrest on his birthday, following a multi-year...

Limpopo pharmacist sentenced for defrauding state medical aid

A 41-year-old pharmacist from Malamulele has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment or pay a fine of R500, 000 after being convicted on 18...

Zamani Saul defends SONA: ‘Opposition parties see nothing positive in SA’

Northern Cape Premier Zamani Saul has used the parliamentary debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) to defend the government's...

Five people killed as bus crashes on deadly N1 stretch in...

At least five people have been confirmed dead after a bus travelling from Gauteng to Limpopo crashed on the N1 highway near Makhado in...

‘I acted on orders in disbandment of PKTT’ — Shadrack Sibiya says

Suspended Police Deputy National Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has told the Madlanga Commission that any role he played in the disbandment of the Political Killings...

Patriotic Alliance calls for greater recognition for Khoi and San communities

Patriotic Alliance MP Bino Jam Farmer used Parliament’s debate on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) to spotlight the continued marginalisation...

Fasiha Hassan calls for beneficiation push and youth jobs in SONA...

ANC MP and former #FeesMustFall activist Fasiha Hassan pressed for urgent action on youth unemployment, faster mineral beneficiation and cheaper energy during parliament’s debate...

Mzansi’s TikTok generation turns mother tongue pride into a movement

As South Africa gears up for International Mother Language Day on February 21, local TikTok creators are using their phones and their own voices,...