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The corruption case of Gauteng High Court Judge Portia Phahlane is one step closer to trial, with the State having now wrapped up its investigations.

It’s been a decade since she was found dead at Spier – we look back at the case that gripped SA

Anglo’s share price jumped 5% on Thursday after it released a production report to the market.

The ANC’s leader in the City of Cape Town council, Ndithini Tyhido, is facing a disciplinary process that could cost him his council seat.

After mounting public pressure, Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie has set aside R3 million to fund the World Cup participation of South Africa’s national hockey teams next month.

Denmark-born Jakob Holbak left a 20-year career at Maersk to launch Refreshi, an app connecting South Africans with surplus food from stores and restaurants at steep discounts.

Twelve-year-old Nnete Leotlela is known by his family as a humble, compassionate, brave and smart Mosotho boy who loves and adores everyone he meets. But his life has taken a turn for the worse after he was viciously attacked by five German Shepherds while on his way to collect his younger brother from aftercare earlier this month.

Chinese vehicles are paying greater attention to look and feel. The equipment remains generous, but it is no longer always used to dress up an otherwise inexpensive car, writes Jarryd Neves.

South Africa has fought back against an “opportunistic” petition two Ghanaians submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in which they claim that there were “widespread and systematic” xenophobic attacks in the country.

The head of IDAC may very well be replaced, but an overreaction and reduction of IDAC will consign South Africa to another dark night, argues Pieter du Toit.

Parliament’s higher education and training portfolio committee has called into question National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) administrator Hlengani Mathebula’s unilateral appointment of ex-Daybreak Farms chair, Bojane Segooa, as a member of the entity’s risk and audit committee.

A 70-year-old woman has reportedly been charged with the murder of a South African woman in France.

The Zimbabwean government says it has registered more than 15 000 returnees from South Africa for jobs and funds for start-up projects.

Two-time Olympic hockey player Onthatile Zulu explains what prompted her to write an Instagram post that called out the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture’s R31 million spending.

A witness in the sexual assault trial of former St John’s Preparatory School teacher Brett Nicholson has described how a relationship he once cherished as a child turned into something he has spent years trying to forget.

Retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has accused IDAC head Andrea Johnson of making a legal mistake that a first-year law student wouldn’t make, as she also faced a charge of misusing her powers from commissioner Sesi Baloyi.

From advocate Andrea Johnson’s Feroz Khan dilemma to an ‘Oasis Index’ pegging Cape Town as one of the world’s cheapest cities for beer, this is Unread.

What should have been a dignified farewell for a beloved husband turned into a nightmare for a Cape Town family after they spent hours searching for his body on the morning of his funeral, despite paying an undertaker almost R30 000 for what they believed was a premium package.

Edwin Letopa, the sole director of the scandal-plagued NTC Global Trade Fund, has been ordered to pay R500 000 into an attorney’s trust account as security for “wasted costs” after a hearing into the firm’s final liquidation was postponed at the last minute.

The ANC in the Free State has suspended Lejweleputswa District Municipality Mayor Phindiwe Maseko five weeks after her appointment – after she defied a party directive on cadre deployment to the mayoral committee.