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The South African Weather Service has issued multiple weather warnings for Wednesday, with severe thunderstorms expected over parts of Gauteng, North West and Limpopo, while damaging winds are forecast for parts of the Eastern Cape.

A man who stabbed his mother 26 times wept as a magistrate found him guilty of her murder in the Durban Regional Court on Tuesday.

A Buffalo City school teacher is out on bail after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman.

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Sharks defence coach Joey Mongalo is looking forward to testing his defensive karate against Jacques Nienaber’s seasoned defensive kung-fu when the Sharks and Leinster meet in their United Rugby Championship clash on Saturday.

More than a third of all posts on South Africa’s 52 parole boards are vacant, the Department of Correctional Services told Parliament, and MPs are not happy about it.

Both government and Anglo American have pushed back against labelling the group’s shrinking SA empire as capital flight.

To repair international relations and revive the economy, Zimbabwe has, since April last year, disbursed tax-free Treasury bonds worth R8.5 billion (US$521 million) to displaced white former commercial farmers kicked off their land in the early 2000s.

“Why don’t they leave?” asked Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni of those who she claimed fanned notions that “South Africa is not a good country for them”.

The well-known Schoemanskloof route between Machadodorp and Mbombela was closed this morning after a shootout between rival gangs of illegal miners, known as zama zamas.

EFF leader Julius Malema has been granted leave to appeal his conviction in his firearm case.

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No lights, no leadership and old vehicles were prevalent at Ekurhuleni police stations, as chairperson of the portfolio committee on police Ian Cameron conducted unannounced SAPS oversight visits at different police stations in Ekurhuleni on Tuesday.

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has claimed that the father of a 16-year-old girl sent him a sexually explicit video of his daughter and told him she had a crush on him.

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday that he had consensual sex with the 18-year-old who accused him of rape.

Former speaker of the National Assembly and ex-defence minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, said she was too sick to continue with court proceedings on Tuesday.

After more than two years on suspension, which cost taxpayers more than R6.7 million, a disciplinary hearing against a senior Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality official has been thrown out.

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has dissolved the National Film and Video Foundation council, saying the decision is one of “institutional accountability”.

The use of AI has created a brave new litigation world, explains Dario Milo of Webber Wentzel.