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Before the Hawks arrested the alleged leadership of the criminal group Black Axe in Cape Town, a senior figure in the organisation was already warning members to stop flaunting their wealth.

The coffers of political parties represented in Parliament and provincial legislatures collectively swelled by R3.18 billion in the 2024/25 financial year, of which almost 70% came from the state – i.e. the taxpayers.

A sitting councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and provincial chairperson of the Freedom Front Plus in the Eastern Cape served nearly 14 years in prison for the murder of an ANC activist, whom he regarded as “an enemy”.

The ANC’s failure to register candidates hands SACP leverage in six municipalities amid escalating alliance tensions.

Medicines are becoming increasingly scarce, and everyone, from Parkinson’s and epilepsy patients to pregnant women and children, is feeling the impact of the growing shortage.

Two wounded American diplomats were airlifted from Mbabane in Eswatini this week after soldiers opened fire on them at a roadblock.

Tanya du Bois went from searching for skincare solutions for her two-year-old son, Ruben, who had been diagnosed with autism, to building a natural skincare brand that was named the Nedbank Business Ignite winner almost two decades later.

Jonathan Jansen argues that South Africa’s exam-obsessed schooling system trains children to perform rather than think, and that genuine education means nurturing curiosity, humility, and the courage to ask life’s hardest questions.

Bolt rolled out LED billboards on top of electric cars in Cape Town, which violated national and city-level advertising rules. The billboards could have been a fantastic source of income for drivers, but authorities worried that they would distract other drivers. If distraction is the concern, why is this where we draw the line? William Brederode asks.

Wendy Knowler took up the case of a reader who was sold a subscription with the promise that she could cancel at any time. But that proved to be easier said than done.

Lifa Miya, one of the South African men lured to Russia under false pretences, returned to South Africa this past weekend and was reunited with his family. Miya spent several months in a hospital, fighting for his life, following a drone attack.

In this week’s News24 Sunday Edition: Iavan Pijoos reveals how a South African man duped into fighting for Russia survived a drone strike that cost him his leg and nearly his life, Lynn Williams exposes how a convicted apartheid-era murderer is running for mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay; and Jan Gerber details how R3.18 billion flowed to South Africa’s political parties last year – almost 70% of it from taxpayers.

Members of the public have expressed outrage following the circulation of a viral video showing a man allegedly threatening to kill women at an upmarket restaurant in Bryanston, Johannesburg.

While playing the All Blacks on 15 August, Bulls flanker Hanro Liebenberg’s worst nightmare came true; he received news that his baby daughter, Liviah, had gone into cardiac arrest.

While the acknowledging the Wallabies will pose a different challenge to the All Blacks, Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus says the challenge next Sunday in Perth remained “massive”.

Concern is mounting within the National Prosecuting Authority over the SANDF’s attempts to have criminal cases against 12 of its special forces operators transferred to military courts.

After winning a tight race against time to be fit in time for the Greatest Rivalry and not being sure if he would be picked, Morne van den Berg, shedding a tear upon starting the last Test, made sense.

An Afrikaner family granted refugee status in the US have been denied re-entry after they undertook a quick trip back to South Africa.

Motorsport driver Marcel Angel has died in an accident at the National Extreme Festival at Killarney International Raceway in Cape Town.

A violent confrontation between EFF supporters and followers of media personality Ngizwe Mchunu erupted in Inanda, north of Durban, on Friday, leaving both camps accusing each other of provocation and assault ahead of rival events scheduled for Saturday.