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Seventh-day Adventist told to pay pastor for unfair dismissal

Lerato Makombe, a pastor in the Cape Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has sued the organisation. This followed her allegations of constructive dismissal, mental...

UJ distances itself from Zim ‘lecturer’, says he is an ex-tutor

The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has been trending since the news of Joel Sangweni, a man who claimed to be a lecturer at the...

Brenda Ngxoli opens up about abusive ex, her baby daddy

Television personality and former The Queen actress Brenda Ngxoli has spoken out about the violence she endured at the hands of her child’s father...

National budget passed at last, but DA plans to fight it...

The national budget was finally passed in Parliament on Wednesday, with 194 members voting in favour of the fiscal framework and 182 against it. The...

Pastor tied to Sassa fraud case caught with gun, bullets

Eleven suspects in the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) fraud case will spend another month in custody after their bail application was postponed. The...

MEC wants answers as North West municipality hires two bosses

Oageng Molapise, the North West MEC for cooperative governance and human settlement, wants an explanation for the appointment of two municipal managers by the...

Lengthy incarceration of Omotoso ends in his acquittal

Timothy Omotoso, a Nigerian televangelist, and his two co-accused, Zikiswa Sitho and Lusanda Sulani, have been found not guilty. In a decision issued by the...

Zimbabwean convicted of smuggling cigarettes worth R29m

A 43-year-old man was given a two-year prison sentence or a fine of R40 000 for attempting to cross the border with cigarettes without...

Sars collects over R11bn taxes from two-pot system withdrawals

The South African Revenue Service (Sars) collected more than R11-billion in taxes from the two-pot retirement withdrawals system since it was established in September...

Drunk driver loses battle with insurance company

The claim of a drunk driver who lied in order to challenge an insurance company has been dismissed with costs by the Free State...

Mpumalanga ‘cash cow’ agency bleeds R285m in unpaid loans

Mpumalanga’s main business funding agency has become a cash cow for inexperienced entrepreneurs who take loans and vanish. The Mpumalanga Economic Growth Agency (MEGA), created...

Five Mpumalanga men in court over Capitec bank R2m loans scam

A group of young people have been granted bail after appearing in a Mpumalanga court for allegedly helping themselves to over R2-million through a...

Faith meets passion for Ntshona as he takes up radio slot

Mzwandile Ntshona, 27, was recently revealed as the new host of the faith and religion programme Bek'ithemba Lakho Kuye on Umhlobo Wenene FM. Loyiso...

Cards tie Ethiopian pastor to R260m Sassa fraud case

A 29-year-old Ethiopian national and aspiring pastor, Abenezer Tilahyn, has denied any involvement in a large-scale fraud syndicate involving the South African Social Security...

Manhunt continues as North West cops hunt CPF member’s killer

Five days after the brutal killing of a North West member of the Community Policing Forum (CFP), Sydney Mboweni, no one has been arrested....

Court appeal against UDM’s Holomisa struck off the roll

The Pretoria High Court has struck an appeal against the United Democratic Movement (UDM) and its leader Bantubonke Holomisa off the roll. This after three...

Bergview college takes the education department to court

Three board of trustees from the Eastern Cape’s Bergville College have filed a request for an urgent interdict against Fundile Gade, the education MEC...

Ndlovu quizzed after MEC caught on video meeting supplier

Mpumalanga premier Mandla Ndlovu has found himself drawn into a political firestorm after the EFF suggested he may have been complicit in the appointment...

Sasol Women’s League teams accuse Safa of dribbling court ruling

The attorneys for 14 Western Cape clubs participating in the Sasol Women's League have threatened to take the South African Football Association (Safa) to...

Sars rakes in over R1.8 trillion from taxes in 2024/2025 season

The country’s tax-collecting authority, the South African Revenue Services (Sars), collected net revenue of R1.855-trillion during the 2024-2025 financial year. Sars achieved collections of R1.855-trillion,...

Mamabolo unrepentant as ANC leagues call for disciplinary action

Disgruntled former ANC parliamentarian Boy Mamabolo has not expressed regret for his most recent outburst in which he used foul language against certain members...

Perhaps Elon Musk should return to SA and consider polygamy

American tech tycoon Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, claims he has no idea if a baby born seven months ago was...

Man wins R650K after wrongful arrest led to vocal chords damage

The North West High Court has ruled in favour of an unemployed 57-year-old man who sued the police for unlawful arrest. Following a court order...

Case of woman who was brutally attacked in taxi stalls

Lebogang Mkhonwana, who was allegedly drugged, robbed and attacked by a taxi driver, is still waiting for justice as her case continues to face...

Still no answers for 20K Mpumalanga youth scrambling for 300 jobs

Finding a job in Mpumalanga has become almost impossible — just ask Mthobisi Mathe. The 28-year-old from Makoko, a poverty-stricken village bordering the Kruger National...

Fidelity fund names, shames lawyers who stole clients’ funds

Between 2018 and 2025, the Legal Practitioners' Fidelity Fund disbarred 57 lawyers who were deemed to have engaged in misconduct. This emerged as the fund...

Security beefed up at North West clinic following attack on guard

The North West department of health has deployed armed security guards to Bapong Health Clinic after a security guard was assaulted by a group...

It is not true that Afrikaners are being persecuted – Mbeki

It is a falsehood that the South African government enacted the Expropriation Act in order to seize the property of Afrikaners without compensation. It is...

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