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Payment trouble with the incentive system meant to attract international film companies to South Africa has left the industry fragile. Further pain looms, as US President Donald Trump is on a movie tariff warpath.

Clinical trial participants appear to be well protected in South Africa, particularly as the country’s guidelines recognise the risks of research with international collaborators. The sudden end of US-funded clinical trials, however, is exposing some limitations of ethics codes and guidelines, argues Dr Andy Gray.

A video of a teacher having sex with a pupil, a photo of her private parts and one of her lying on his chest while they were in bed together. These shocking exhibits were featured during an Education Labour Relations Council arbitration hearing.

The hush-hush four-hour marathon meeting between the ANC and Afrikaner Leadership Network at a hotel in Sandton has been at least four weeks in the making, and the PAC finally convinced the organisations to meet on Tuesday.

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.

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo “misplaced” Andiswa Mengo’s sexual harassment complaint against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge after she lodged it – which is was why he asked that she make a new one.

Mercy Ndambo’s son, Frank, will grow up never knowing his mother. He was only a few months old when she died in a building collapse in George a year ago.

On Monday, 6 May 2024, at 14:09, 6 000 tonnes of concrete came crashing down at a construction site in Victoria Street, George, killing more than 30 people and leaving Gabriel Guamba entombed in rubble for 118 hours.

A year after a building collapsed in George Central, resulting in an 11-day rescue mission and 34 deaths, no one had been held criminally responsible.

A female police officer at the Kabega Park police station in the Eastern Cape has been arrested for fraud and money laundering.

Two men have been shot and killed while a third person was hospitalised in what police suspect was a gang attack in Mitchells Plain.

Western Cape police arrested a 28-year-old man after a group of 10 armed robbers stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a shopping complex in Somerset West on Tuesday morning.

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Post-TB lung disease affects an estimated 60% of everyone who has been cured of TB. That is according to Dr Brian Allwood, a consultant pulmonologist at Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital. He is also the co-convenor of the third International Post-TB Symposium that was held in Stellenbosch in April.

High Court secretary Andiswa Mengo’s evidence that Judge President Selby Mbenenge WhatsApped her lewd images allegedly, including a picture of his private parts, could not be confirmed by a forensic investigation of the pair’s phones, an expert has testified.

A viral post claiming the University of Fort Hare is being “taken over” by illegally employed foreign academics has been roundly debunked by the institution, which has condemned the claims as xenophobic disinformation.

If South Africa hadn’t halted state capture, the country would have become a failed state, Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi said.

A post by an account on X, now viewed over 68 000 times, claims: “European companies are withdrawing from South Africa. BMW, Audi and Volvo are leaving.” This is false and misleading.

Farmers living on the banks of the Orange River are paying the price for the heavy rains in the rest of the country.

The family of Ashley Oosthuizen, a South African woman imprisoned in Thailand, has found renewed hope following a recent court decision that reduced her original 33-year sentence by 20 years.