Despite double-digit drops in the value of overall trade during the past half a year, some products have recently seen an increase from 2024, defying trade strains between Beijing and Washington.
Gauteng schools have been hit by a spate of violent incidents this week, prompting Education MEC Matome Chiloane to condemn the rising cases of school-based assaults, bullying, and viral videos depicting pupil brutality.
Four years after the tragic killing of 16-year-old Nathaniel Julies, his mother, Bridget Harris, said the slow progress of the trial has left her emotionally exhausted and questioning whether justice will ever be served.
Afrikaners speak out against the political misuse of their identity in the USA – a topic currently gaining prominence with reports in the New York Times, Washington Post, and locally.
Specialised DNA identification processes will be required to identify the remains of seven children who tragically lost their lives in a horrific bus crash on the N1 freeway, near Louis Trichardt, in Limpopo.
The Helen Suzman Foundation dismissed claims by forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan that he had financially backed its legal efforts to support former Independent Police Investigative Directorate head Robert McBride.
Afrika Mayibuye leader Floyd Shivambu, who has joined his third political party in less than a year, has fired his second-in-command, Nolubabalo Mcinga, as the party’s deputy president.
Former police minister Bheki Cele has backtracked on his relationship with tenderpreneur Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, who is accused of attempted murder, clarifying that he does not know Matlala “very well”.
The fallout is the latest threat to the fragile government of national unity that has frequently come to the brink of collapse over policy clashes between its two largest parties
A court has ordered Jacob Zuma cough up the millions the state paid out in legal fees for his defence in the arms deal case but the former president is being coy about whether he will do it
Eight Milnerton High School pupils, aged 17 to 18, have been released on bail of R2 000 and barred from returning to the school until the case against them is finalised.
The MK Party’s denunciation of the Madlanga Commission probing criminality, political interference and corruption in the criminal justice system came into sharp focus during a press briefing on Thursday.
An Eastern Cape government employee has been arrested for allegedly using a fraudulent matric certificate to secure employment with the state and earning over R2 million in wages over nine years.
Three foreign nationals and a South African have been arrested after allegedly being found in possession of stolen Eskom infrastructure along the R33 between Vryheid and Paulpietersburg in KwaZulu-Natal.
Former ANC national executive committee member Tony Yengeni, 71, has joined the MK Party to relieve an apparently overburdened party president, Jacob Zuma, from some of his duties.
Police minister at the time, Bheki Cele led a team, together with KwaZulu-Natal top cop Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, that saved South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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