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An 18-second CCTV clip, a blue VW Jetta 5 and a multi-agency intelligence-driven operation helped officers attached to the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Police Department track down three people allegedly responsible for the murder of Formula Ford champion Robert Wolk.

Before the Swartland became one of South Africa’s most influential wine regions, Riebeek Kasteel was a rural backwater where hippies, farmers, artists, journalists and eccentrics somehow found themselves sharing the same stoep.

National Prosecuting Authority head Andy Mothibi has ordered that Investigating Directorate Against Corruption investigators and prosecutors undergo lifestyle audits.

After a colleague’s unsettling email about a shared quote, Pierre de Vos examines how antisemitism is increasingly conflated with criticism of Israel to silence dissent and shield the state from accountability.

South Africans are spoilt for choice when it comes to picking a compact SUV. Hyundai has just launched its updated Creta with two models: an entry-level derivative that’s more than R40 000 cheaper than the outgoing model, and a sportier, pricier N model. But, will it survive in an ocean of picks, asks Janine van der Post?

Fawaaz Basadien on what kept him going during dark times at the start of his Mamelodi Sundowns career.

Wine magnate Hein Koegelenberg and Hanneli Rupert, the sister of South Africa’s richest man, Johann Rupert, have divorced after 28 years of marriage.

New two-minute noodle player Zanzi sees major expansion potential in a domestic market where an estimated 800 million single-serve packets are sold annually.

Consumers have free access to the National Consumer Tribunal, but enforcing its rulings can still come with a hefty price tag, writes Maya Fisher-French.

Intercape, which has battled transport mafias in the Eastern Cape for years, has vowed to keep fighting after an Eastern Cape High Court judgment cleared it to load and offload passengers at the Ngcobo police station.

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says the state has the capacity to respond to the murders of nine women in Ekurhuleni. Yet steps have not been taken. Tegan Snyman argues why criminalising femicide is a long-overdue first step.

The Ekurhuleni municipality has wasted more than R23 billion providing “temporary mobile chemical toilets” that have become a source of riches for connected tenderpreneurs even as politicians have spoken about the urgent need to eradicate unsanitary bucket toilets in informal settlements.

The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms across KwaZulu-Natal, with heavy downpours, hail, and excessive lightning expected to bring localised flooding and damage to infrastructure and settlements.

Quirky British TV series ‘Death Valley’, currently in its second season on BBC Brit (DStv 120), is truly one of the most fun-filled whodunit murder mystery dramas on television.

Three persons of interest have been taken in for questioning in connection with the murders of nine women in Ekurhuleni in Gauteng, Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia confirmed on Sunday, as he cautioned that investigators have not yet conclusively established that a serial killer is responsible.

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A bill signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa to enhance the powers of the Public Service Commission offers the chance to redeem a public service derailed by corruption, the chair of the PSC said.

Pitso Mosimane will start his second stint as Bafana Bafana coach at his home in Soweto, where he was breastfed football by his maternal side in Phefeni.

Mamelodi Sundowns’ coach Miguel Cardoso dedicated the Brazilians’ FIFA African-Asian-Pacific Cup win to the late Jayden Adams.

South African journalist Roshan Micah Reddy, who is attached to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, went missing in Djibouti on Saturday, along with his “local fixer”, Kooki Mahmoud.