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Jan Johannes Craemer, 37, was shot twice in the face and neck in room 1201 at the Durban Spa Hotel on 30 November 2015 by his secret lover of three years, Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen, now 54.

Four Cape fur seals trapped in a Cape Town dry dock over several weeks were safely returned to the ocean – two by net, one by staircase, and one by simply swimming home – in a rescue that tested patience as much as skill.

Convicted killer Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen faced questions from Acting Judge Priscilla Maharaj about why he took his secret lover, Jan Johannes Craemer, to a hotel room where he had hidden a loaded gun if he was genuinely scared of him.

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Nomalanga Shozi is well on her way to becoming a powerhouse in her own right, with a blossoming career across some of the country’s biggest stages.

SA Rugby mobi-unit coach Duane Vermeulen said the Springboks aren’t approaching the Test against Australia any differently from their recent matches against New Zealand, especially with the Wallabies known for catching the world champions on the hop in the past.

Two years after she was appointed as a director of Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala’s Medicare 24 Tswane District – through which the alleged crime boss scored a controversial R360-million health services tender from the police – Claudette Masethe now says she is unemployed and surviving off a R60 000 a month allowance from her boyfriend.

A Middelburg-based company this week received R21.55 million back from the Mpumalanga Asset Forfeiture Unit after it was stolen from the company in a sophisticated cybercrime scam.

A Western Cape businessman’s attempt to claim insurance for the same vehicle damage twice has been dismissed by the Western Cape High Court – with WhatsApp “blue ticks” among the evidence that unravelled his account.

DJ Stoks’ ‘Let Love Bloom’ EP is rooted in Amapiano’s culture of community, a genre he says brings people together regardless of where they’re from.

Milton Shain argues that Pierre de Vos’ characterisation of Israel as a “settler-colonial state” ignores the long historical record of Jewish indigeneity, the context in which Zionism arose, and why the colonial label simply does not fit.

Knysna is still without a mayor after Wednesday’s special council meeting, which was called for the election of a new mayor, collapsed due to a lack of quorum.

Djibouti hosts five foreign militaries, controls one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes, and has zero independent media. News24 takes a closer look at the country following the release of journalist Micah Reddy after he was questioned by authorities there.

What does a South African traveller recently returned from Spain have in common with a Norwegian and German citizen? They’ve all been diagnosed with mpox in the latest outbreak on South African shores.

It’s gone! ProNutro, the cereal generations of South Africans breakfasted on, won’t be returning to the shelves in any form.

Haashim Pead is officially coming home, with the Stormers confirming the highly rated scrumhalf has signed a four-year deal from the Lions

In Prieska’s informal settlement that locals call ‘Plakkerskamp’, poverty is visible in the streets. But within this community, where food is one of the biggest daily struggles, two people are giving what little they have to ensure more than 100 others do not go hungry. They do it without government funding, from the same conditions they are trying to help others escape, write Justine Lebaka and Storm Simpson.

Former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has denied that military contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu handed her R250 000 at a 2018 Spousal Forum event.

The ANC has approached the Constitutional Court to fight for the reinstatement of 181 candidates who have been excluded from the 4 November local government elections.

Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA has described the DA’s latest court challenge over parties that submitted only a single name for their Proportional Representation lists as a desperate attempt to disenfranchise voters, arguing that the party cannot win at the ballot box.