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Severe floods in May washed away sections of Meiringspoort, cutting De Rust off from the passing trade the Klein Karoo town depends on. Businesses have closed, and workers have lost jobs. Now the town is waiting for December, when the pass is due to reopen.

The Kannaland Local Municipality manager has had his urgent defamation application against the DA struck from the roll. Dillo Sereo accused the party of damaging his reputation by calling him a “tender bender” and a “tsoti of local government”.

A group of naturists is chafing over signage installed at Cape Town’s unofficial nudist beach, prohibiting them from sunbathing in their birthday suits.

With 13 changes he resisted for the Greatest Rivarly series, Rassie Erasmus’ Bok team for the one-off Test against Australia blurs the line between players with ring rust and players with a point to prove.

Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus has made wholesale changes to his side for the one-off Test against Australia in Perth on Sunday.

Botswana’s First Lady, Kaone Boko, announced the launch of a new Gender-Based Violence Fund at an African Odyssey and Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund event in New York.

The JSE-listed financier of small to medium-sized businesses across Africa says its CEO and cofounder, Warren Wheatley, has resigned with effect from 21 September.

Pick n Pay has announced that former Woolworths executive Spencer Sonn will succeed Sean Summers.

British Columbia sued OpenAI in California ‌on Monday, saying a mass shooting at a school in the province ⁠could have been prevented if the company had warned local law enforcement that the shooter had used ChatGPT to plan the ⁠massacre.

A close associate of the senior police officer accused of rape and sexual grooming claims that the lieutenant-general is being targeted.

With opposition parties fielding mayoral candidates who have no intention of staying in council, voters are being sold snake oil instead of service delivery plans, writes Mbhazima Shilowa.

We cannot celebrate the legacy of 1956 through passive nostalgia. The reality confronting us now is that sexual harassment, bullying by peers or teachers, and dangerous commutes for pupils turn the pursuit of education and a better life into an experience of fear and trauma, writes Pila-sande Mkuzo.

If we wait for commissions to connect dots that institutions already possessed separately, we are investigating failure rather than learning how to stop it, writes Neetu Chetty.

Thistle & Weed started out as a Chenin Blanc producer. Ten years later, its founders are betting that some of South Africa’s lesser-known Mediterranean varieties could have a bigger role to play in the country’s red-wine future.

While we have learnt much about the money swirling around the political system in the past five years, there are still massive blind spots.

Taxi tycoon Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni claims that – when he told an associate “we are in charge of the streets” in a June 2025 WhatsApp – it was a “personal motivation to a healthy lifestyle” and had no criminal undertones.

In the absence of star fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen will step into a fairly unfamiliar role of leading the Proteas attack across the three-match One Day International series against Australia, which starts on Thursday.

Diesel prices have rallied in Europe and the ⁠United States to record highs as wars in Iran and Ukraine sharply cut exports from some of the biggest producers such ⁠as Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, with few options to prevent further gains.

In his first interview since taking up the post, Israel’s Hen Feder called South Africa’s expulsion of his predecessor “erroneous” and the ICJ genocide case “factless”.

Olympic champion Tatjana Smith returns to competitive swimming two years after retiring at the 2024 Paris Olympics during the height of her powers. In an interview with News24, Smith explains her second act, reinventing herself as a sprinter, as well as becoming a leading voice in the sport.