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Graft-accused former National Assembly speaker and defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has enlisted the services of a new legal team.

From a small town filled with big dreams, Grade 10 pupil Alzira Potgieter from Volksrust, Mpumalanga, has risen above the odds to play hockey for an invitational team in the Netherlands.

SANParks has urged people to stay off trails at Silvermine and Tokai after the recent fires, as they are still managing flare-ups.

The FIRST LEGO Open Africa Championships returns to Africa after 10 years – this time with the theme “Submerge”.

In less than three weeks, the mother of Joshlin Smith and her co-accused will know their fate when the Western Cape High Court sentences them for the child’s kidnapping and trafficking.

On 1 May, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is the largest public funder of biomedical research globally, published a new policy prohibiting all foreign sub-awards. As a result, billions of rands in research grants for South African clinical studies are unlikely to be renewed over the next year, GroundUp and Spotlight report.

Eastern Cape Education MEC Fundile Gade says it is “morally and illegally wrong” for some former Model C schools to contest his department’s decision to ban the sale of alcohol at schools.

Deputy President Paul Mashatile, who appears to have positioned himself as a ANC presidential hopeful, has called on party members vying for political power in 2027 to leave state institutions out of their campaigns.

A meeting attended by the DA’s international relations and cooperation spokesperson, MP Emma Powell, descended into chaos when irate audience members confronted her about the party’s stance on the ongoing war on Gaza.

Battling stage 4 colorectal cancer, Aadam Forgan found inspiration in the laughter and tears of young cancer patients during his chemotherapy sessions in the ward next to his. On 26 April, he ran the 21.1km Outeniqua Half Marathon and has raised more than R36 000.

When is a punch-up not a punch-up? When the leader of a political party says it wasn’t.

Property owners in the R2.5-million to R3-million price bracket are expected to feel the biggest affordability squeeze.

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The families of missing journalist Aserie Ndlovu and his partner, Zodwa Mdhluli, will know within 24 hours if the two bodies recovered in a field in Rust De Winter are, in fact, the remains of the couple.

Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero has taken a page from Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus’ book and formed a service delivery “Bomb Squad” as part of the City’s turnaround strategy.

Court interpreters from across the Western Cape have embarked on a go-slow amid growing frustration over unpaid salaries.

In Gauteng, municipal ethics officers do not prioritise integrity management when performing their duties, a report has found.

The brother of murdered Soweto pupil Simphiwe Biyela, 18, is calling for justice after two University of Johannesburg students were arrested for his murder.