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“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.

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.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the country on Tuesday evening on the government’s plans to tackle gender-based violence and femicide.

Suspended Investigating Directorate Against Corruption investigator Dylan Perumal has been asked to hand himself over to investigators after he failed to attend a meeting where he was meant to give a warning statement.

Just two days before their eviction deadline, 161 people occupying Transnet-owned land in Woodstock and Salt River have lost another legal battle after the Western Cape High Court refused their application for leave to appeal.

National Director of Public Prosecutions Andy Mothibi has instructed that a case review team be appointed to assess the Medicare24 matter in its entirety.

Accused Tembisa Hospital looter Stefan Govindraju’s case could not proceed in the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crime Court sitting in Palm Ridge due to a power outage.

Two deaf pupils at St Vincent School for the Deaf in Johannesburg are developing a South African Sign Language dictionary.

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.

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.

Former defence minister and ex-National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday that not a single serving minister in the country is in possession of a security clearance certificate.

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 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.