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ActionSA is demanding the release of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate's report on the alleged cover-up of a theft involving President Ramaphosa, ...

‘ANC member behind death threats on Knysna mayor’

Nicola Daniels|Published 2 hours ago

Recent death threats against Knysna Mayor Thando Matika, linked to a by-election following the resignation of former Mayor Aubrey Tsengwa, raise serious concerns ...

Concerns over Judge Mushtak Parker's silence amid misconduct allegations

Chevon Booysen|Published 3 hours ago

The Tribunal reserved its decision in the matter in which Parker is accused of bringing the judiciary into disrepute by committing the cardinal sin of lying under ...

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Staff Reporter|Published 4 hours ago

Officials were at the site Tuesday after multiple bodies were retrieved from the river in Centurion, Tshwane.

Letter to the Editor: ANC remains clueless about GNU

Lynn  Harding|Published 13 hours ago

The fat cats in government and the civil service have forgotten what it is to be excluded, sometimes hungry and desperate to make ends meet.

Mantashe calls for unity and healing at Freedom Day in Ermelo

Jonisayi Maromo and Manyane Manyane|Published 22 hours ago

The national Freedom Day celebrations were held at the AJ Swanepoel Stadium in Ermelo, Msukwaligwa Local Municipality within the Gert Sibande District Municipality ...

Judges Matter calls for urgent investigation into Judge Parker's misconduct allegations

Manyane Manyane|Published 23 hours ago

Judicial watchdog Judges Matter is demanding a thorough investigation into serious allegations against Western Cape Judge Mushtak Parker, as the tribunal prepares ...

Noise complaints surge in Cape Town

Staff Reporter|Published 23 hours ago

The top sources of noise complaints are places of late-night entertainment, events with amplified sound and residential business/workshop noise.

Law firm challenges mandatory mediation directive in Constitutional Court

Zelda Venter|Published 23 hours ago

A Pretoria law firm is fighting back against a directive mandating mediation for civil cases in Gauteng's high courts, claiming it infringes on the rights of litigants. ...

VAT hike court case exposes ‘GNU fallacy’

Nicola Daniels|Published 1 day ago

While the presiding officers of parliament welcomed the agreement on Monday, they said that it was not an omission of procedural irregularities.

Request to relocate sons to Israel denied

Zelda Venter|Published 1 day ago

A mother of two sons will have to return to Israel without her children after the Gauteng High Court found it is better and safer for them to grow up in South Africa ...

Good Samaritan dies while helping to save paddler at Kalk Bay Harbour

Staff Reporter|Published 1 day ago

A local man, aged 35, had, on seeing the 57-year-old paddler appearing to be in difficulty, jumped off the Kalk Bay Harbour wall and swam to him in efforts to assist. ...

Wildfire engulfs over 2000 hectares of Table Mountain

Nicola Daniels|Published 1 day ago

Hundreds of firefighters from various agencies, including aerial support, had been actively working throughout the weekend to prevent the fire from spreading to ...

Families plead for safe return of missing Free State police officers

Jonisayi Maromo|Published 1 day ago

National police commissioner, General Fannie Masemola has announced a R350 000 reward for information which can lead to the missing police officers being found. ...

VAT increase signaled lack of ideas, integrity

Dugan Brown|Published 1 day ago

South Africa's fiscal woes cannot and must not be resolved on the backs of the already burdened working class. VAT is a consumption tax. It hits the poor hardest. ...

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Julian Kiewietz|Published 1 day ago

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Pope Francis was the voice of solidarity against indifference

Ali Ridha Khan|Published 2 days ago

In the vacuum left by his death, it falls to progressive movements, and communities of conscience—rooted in anti-colonial struggle—to amplify the questions Francis ...