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Gauteng traffic chief Samuel Mashaba, who is accused of attempting to steal 715kg of cocaine, has been suspended.

TV presenter and rapper Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye was arrested on Sunday, Gauteng police said.

When Brendan Murray, co-founder of the Owl Rescue Centre, went to settle his bill for his usual coffee fix in Brits, someone had already paid it. Anonymously.

Burly Stormers lock Adre Smith was called up to the Springbok training squad in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Eastern Cape police are appealing for assistance in locating a missing police dog and tracking down three armed suspects who robbed a primary school before vanishing into dense bush in Mdantsane.

The surge in cargoes from fuel makers in places like Texas and Louisiana has been so strong that the US has become one of South Africa’s top sources of petrol and diesel, according to data from energy analytics companies.

Climate scientists agree that intense downpours and heavy storms will likely happen more often and become more unpredictable in the future. But can every extreme weather event be pinned on climate change?

Hundreds of Sassa grant recipients are being duped into signing funeral policies under false pretences – and no one is stepping up to help them, writes Maya Fisher-French.

A sting operation saw 150 live venomous scorpions discovered in a man’s luggage at Cape Town International Airport.

Across South Africa and around the world, people are changing what they expect from work. A salary still matters, of course. But increasingly, it is not enough, writes Marius Ungerer.

Former Proteas all-rounder Justin Kemp has been appointed as Namibia’s Director of Cricket, hoping to take the neighbouring nation to “greater heights”.

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When the whole world was watching, Bafana Bafana players went into hiding after losing their opening game of the 2026 FIFA World Cup 2-0 to Mexico at the Estadio Azteca on Thursday.

Sung Kang is one of the most popular actors in the Fast and Furious movie franchise, and there is hardly a petrolhead who doesn’t know him. Cape Town showed up in numbers to welcome the star with the coolest cars this side of SA, and he loved it, writes Janine van der Post.

South African dive instructor and marine teacher Silindile Mbuyazi has been named the 2026 Wayfinder Award recipient and is set to receive the award at the National Geographic Explorers Festival on 18 June in Washington, DC.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched an urgent application for a stay of his impeachment inquiry.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared Iran and the US are on the verge of agreeing on a deal to end the Middle East war, but a litany of sticking points has delayed finalising an accord and will complicate its implementation, analysts say.

Partly cloudy, cool to cold conditions are forecast for most parts of the country, with drizzle in parts of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, according to the South African Weather Service.

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