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Haashim Pead, one of South African rugby’s brightest young stars, will leave the Lions and join the Stormers ahead of the new season.

They are a mainstay on South Africa’s roads. Now Checkers Sixty60 and other drivers in the Shoprite group have been celebrated at the annual Pingo Driver Recognition Awards.

An idea conceived within the South African Rugby Union’s inner circle a decade ago has, according to Rapport, earned the governing body more than R250 million, significantly boosting its coffers.

Three men have been killed and two suspects have been arrested in police operations aimed at tracking those behind the murder of two officers in Libode, near Mthatha.

The City of Cape Town is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of those involved in attacking enforcement officers during an illegal street racing crackdown in Paarden Eiland on Friday night.

While consumers have always been interested in smaller used cars, data from AutoTrader shows that this interest is now translating into actual sales.

An alleged serial rapist who terrorised women in Cato Manor for more than a decade has been arrested.

Education MECs have backed retaining the new Foundation Phase National Catalogue, despite fresh legal advice identifying weaknesses in the procurement process.

South Africa’s financial regulator will await the findings of a study by the world’s top standards-setting body before setting up new rules for artificial intelligence in the country, it said.

Firefighters have made significant progress in containing a wildfire that broke out in the mountains above Plaisir Wine Estate near Simondium in the Cape Winelands.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has granted a final extension of the deadline for the Madlanga Commission’s final report to allow the inquiry to process additional evidence, the Presidency announced on Saturday.

Plans for Cape Town’s first permanent desalination plant have been pushed back to 2036 – almost 18 years after the Day Zero crisis.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that he had struck a deal with Denmark to give Washington “permanent control” over Greenland’s security that would bar Russia and China from setting up bases in the Arctic territory.

South African workers are already battling unemployment, retrenchment, poverty and the rising cost of living. Former Cosatu general secretaries Jay Naidoo and Mbhazima Shilowa argue that this is precisely the time for the union movement to look outward rather than be consumed by its internal battles.

Cape Town’s celebrities are moving from the entertainment stage to the political platform.

Growing up in Gugulethu, Sipho Ngwema thought he understood the men who loitered at corners asking for change. Then his brother, a senior member of the 26s, called from inside prison and corrected him. It was the first lesson in a much bigger argument: that South Africa’s criminal economy has been learning how legitimate power works – and is now using that knowledge to pursue it.

Thanks to their recruitment, Bok availability and Johan Ackermann being in his second year in charge, the Bulls have a chance of finally getting over the line after four URC finals in five years.

As Cape Town rushes to cage two baboon troops before local elections, Francesca de Gasparis argues the city is punishing wild animals for its own management failures rather than addressing the real causes of human-baboon conflict.

Malcolm Marx’s stirring series against the All Blacks is also reflected in his booming personal Test statistics, writes Rob Houwing

South Africa’s air traffic control system is under pressure from staff shortages, equipment problems and other operational constraints, with passengers sometimes experiencing the consequences in the form of delays and disrupted flights. But the airline or airport is not always the cause.