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Civil Society SA has filed two Promotion of Access to Information Act applications demanding the evidence behind the proposed Firearms Control Amendment Bill.

Suspended University of Fort Hare Vice-Chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu has resigned.

Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, is racing to attract 10 million investors to his refinery’s initial public offering, with a marketing blitz that has swept across Nigeria’s commercial hub.

Tensions within the DA have flared again after Abdulkader “AK” Elyas, the embattled member at the centre of a party investigation into false qualification claims, resurfaced at a Western Cape DA event over the weekend.

Amid what Proteas coach Shukri Conrad refers to as a hamstring “pandemic” among his quicks, he still has a spin-bowling remedy he can call on: the Harmeraj. Coastal grounds Kingsmead and St George’s Park offer a twist to the Test series against Australia.

Gold Fields may have been rebuffed by Northern Star’s board, but its decision to publicly lay out its case for a takeover of Australia’s largest gold miner has effectively shifted the battle to shareholders.

Boland Cricket has lost its voting rights with Cricket South Africa after missing the financial reporting deadline due to changes in its auditor. CEO James Fortuin says the union will be restored to good standing once outstanding statements are submitted.

The number of hikers needing rescue is climbing, but the volunteers at Wilderness Search and Rescue now have a new tool to help save lives: a set of robotic legs that help exhausted hikers walk.

The Stormers received a welcome surprise shortly before last Friday’s URC opener against Irish side Connacht when Springbok captain Siya Kolisi made an unexpected arrival.

The WhatsApp evidence taxi boss Oupa Bafana Sindane tried and failed to suppress has revealed that he and taxi tycoon Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni allegedly hired a controversial attorney to represent two convicted taxi hitmen – and then failed to pay him the R250 000 they had promised to.

Nissan is accelerating its SUV-led resurgence with the launch of the all-new Tekton, writes Reuben van Niekerk.

Sue Nyathi, bestselling author of ‘The Polygamist’ – now a hit Netflix series – talks to Charlotte Bauer about her new book, ‘Man-Hood: Confessions from the Heart’.

Crosses in Washington and a Springbok captain’s past force us to confront the ghosts of the past, writes Adriaan Basson.

It was a case of water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Yet the town of Beaufort West came together to help those who were left parched after the rain, write Justine Lebaka and Jan Gerber .

The union’s leadership in KwaZulu-Natal has accused general secretary Irvin Jim of blocking a regional elective congress, while Jim says some regional leaders stand to benefit from fastracking the event.

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber is scheduled to make a big announcement this week. The pieces are falling into place for the department to finally phase out the widely forged green ID book, and Thursday could mark another big step toward its end.

Wendy Dlamini described how she hid under a pool table, praying for her life, when eight gunmen stormed Dora’s Tavern, killing 18 people.

Infrastructure projects in Ekurhuleni metro worth more than half a billion rands are gathering dust, mostly because of the City’s inability to connect these to municipal services, according to the DA.

Three suspected cash-in-transit robbers were killed and another was arrested following a shootout with police on the R80 Mabopane Highway, north of Pretoria, on Monday.

South Africa and Zimbabwe are discussing a $500 million (R8.2 billion) dam project to supply water to an industrial hub near their border, according to documents seen by Bloomberg.