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There is yet another delay in the sentencing of convicted child rapist and murderer Amber Lee Hughes, as the defence will be making an application to reopen its case for purposes of mitigation.

At least 14 people were killed and 10 others abducted by an armed group in central Ethiopia earlier this week, an NGO that tracks armed conflicts and a witness told AFP on Friday.

In this week’s edition of My F*k, Mzansi, we trek the not-so-great Kallie and Ernst’s road to Trumpistan, say a congratulatory why-not to the crocodile across the Limpopo and take glitch lessons from Mbalula.

After premiering his new film, The Smell of Apples, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), filmmaker John Trengove is looking forward to bringing it home to South Africa.

The R5 000 bail of Durban panelbeater Julio Nobrega was officially forfeited to the State on Monday when the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban authorised an arrest warrant after he failed to appear for his murder trial.

South Africans are just at the start of what will likely be “the mother of all El Niños”, says Professor Willem Landman, a meteorologist at the University of Pretoria.

An 18-year-old e-hailing driver appeared in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court this morning after his arrest for the rape of a 17-year-old girl at Ehlanzeni Hostel.

Government has decided to proceed with an investigation into the alleged dumping of cement from Vietnam and Mozambique.

The two accused in the murder of boxer Zolani Tete were likely to evade trial and interfere with witnesses if they are released on bail, the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court found on Friday.

Investec shares fell on Friday after the group published a trading update that showed its business in the slow-growing UK market was a drag on earnings.

In the wake of acts of femicide on the East Rand of Gauteng, Springbok captain Siya Kolisi led a call to action, urging men to take responsibility in resolving the extraordinary scale of gender-based violence plaguing South African society.

Mudslides triggered by continuous heavy rainfall led to the collapse of three houses in Tshelimnyama, Mariannhill, in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday, affecting 14 residents from three families.

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team, comprising SANParks, Cape Nature, and the City of Cape Town, plans to move two troops of Simons Town baboons to enclosures by the end of the month. But conservationists vehemently oppose the move.

Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday that Warren Buffett will step down as the conglomerate’s chairman and ‌will become its chairman emeritus, effective immediately.

A senior Glencore executive last year urged counterparts at Radiant World not to communicate by email, according to WhatsApp messages from the company’s head of iron ore seen by Bloomberg News.

The ANC’s submission of proportional representation candidate lists to the IEC has inadvertently revealed what may be the party’s closely guarded mayoral candidate selections across the country’s major metropolitan municipalities.

Social media is already awash with iffy health advice, supplement recommendations, and supposed natural remedies. Now, some of the “people” delivering it are entirely AI-generated.

At least 18 new mpox cases have been reported, the Department of Health has said, with most of them centred in the Western Cape.

Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital may see its stake in Alexforbes increase from below 50% to almost 78% as part of the US giant Prudential’s move to sell its holding in SA’s biggest pension fund administrator.

The JSE is to bleed another listing as Solar makes a tantalising offer for Omnia, brace for impact as interest rates might go up, and Cape Town communities are up in arms over data centres. We’ve packaged the top stories as videos for those who want a 90-second take. Enjoy!