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Toshisuke Kanazawa is bodybuilding in honour of his late wife

After decades of enforcing a blood policy that saw high courts rule for children to receive life-saving transfusions against their parents’ wishes, the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses has quietly conceded that accepting blood components is now “a matter of personal conscience”.

The defence for a former military man sentenced to life for killing his wife by the Pinetown Regional Court, which described the murder as callous and brutal, was heard reassuring its client on Friday that he would not be kept in the general population of sentenced prisoners in Westville Prison.

Variations on a Theme has been selected as South Africa’s official entry for the 99th Annual Academy Awards in the Best International Feature Film category.

A former Department of Home Affairs employee has been convicted on 264 charges for his involvement in a passport fraud scheme at the department’s Pietermaritzburg office.

Tributes have been pouring in for South African musician Babsy Mlangeni, who died at the age of 83 after a short illness.

The political head of one of the Eastern Cape’s most dysfunctional municipalities looks forward to no longer being insulted as her term draws to a close.

South Africa will defend their World Championship of Legends crown in the United Arab Emirates, with former star batter AB de Villiers again entrusted with the captaincy.

Operations at SA’s biggest sugar producer, Tongaat Hulett, “continue as normal” as talks over its future continue, its business rescue practitioners say.

Beyond President Cyril Ramaphosa’s four national interventions to deal with the scourge of gender-based violence, Premier Panyaza Lesufi said Gauteng is adding another to the list — an audit of places of safety, covering buildings, staffing, and funding gaps.

Knysna’s municipal leadership crisis has taken a dramatic new turn, with the arrest of the town’s former mayor and two senior municipal officials on corruption charges.

Skye Goss headed to New York two years ago to pursue her acting dream

South Africa has delayed by six months a request for proposals from private companies to build transmission lines, further slowing the expansion of the country’s electricity infrastructure.

Manchester City have ‌filed an ⁠appeal against an ⁠independent commission ruling that found the club ‌guilty of serious breaches of the ‌Premier League’s financial rules, seeking to overturn the verdict and ‌avoid ⁠potentially severe sanctions.

Medical aids, including Discovery and Momentum, have announced 2027 increases way above the Council for Medical Schemes’ recommended 3.8% anchor, plus a reasonable allowance for healthcare utilisation.

Rape accused and former top cop Shadrack Sibiya has blamed the father of the 16-year-old girl he is accused of sexually grooming for the charges against him, saying that their friendship soured after he confronted the man over his alleged inappropriate conduct towards women.

A new mobile clinic is bringing breast and cervical cancer services directly to rural communities in Mpumalanga, aiming to tackle one of the biggest barriers to early treatment.

South Africans may face record-high fuel prices next week, with petrol in Gauteng perhaps costing more than R30/litre for the first time.

A Gqeberha man who was found alive and calling for help from the boot of a hijacked vehicle in the early hours of Thursday was rescued by police officers who had initially responded to an entirely different crime scene nearby.

While police say they will work with prosecutors to reinstate withdrawn murder charges against Bonginkosi Mfanomncane Dlamini, his arrest for the 2021 Sydenham mass killing that claimed nine lives, including two children, has led investigators to the alleged mastermind, who is serving a sentence for a separate murder.