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It will be another rainy day in South Africa, according to the South African Weather Service. While isolated afternoon showers are predicted, it will also be warm and partly cloudy for parts of the country.

Last week’s rate increase by the US Federal Reserve had hints of the tail wagging the dog, writes Izak Odendaal. He examines the implications for South Africa.

Three men accused of murdering Formula Ford champion Robert Wolk appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday, where the State alleged the killing was a targeted hit.

Flights at ⁠several British airports were delayed on Monday by an air traffic ⁠control failure, Britain’s air traffic control provider NATS said, less than two weeks after a separate issue halted flights across the country.

The murder of Jabulile Ntimba appears to have stemmed from a possible love triangle, police said, as they continue to investigate whether her killing is linked to the murder of several other women in Ekurhuleni.

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For the first time, Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen has admitted to shooting and killing 37-year-old Jan Johannes Craemer, with whom he was having a secret affair.

Fishing group Oceana has flagged flat revenue but improved operational profits for its 11 months to the end of August, with its Lucky Star business managing improved earnings despite a plunge in canning volumes amid a shortage of imported raw fish.

The R823 million allocated to Operation Prosper was associated with 77 fewer murders in the Western Cape, based on quarterly crime statistics. But murders in the province increased from the first three months of the year, even as they dropped year-on-year.

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said on Monday that if he were re-elected as the mayor on 4 November, his administration would “accelerate our city-owned land releases” to pave the way for more low-cost housing projects.

Orlando Pirates coach Abdeslam Ouaddou has pushed back against criticism from former club figures, insisting he has no intention of abandoning his principles for the sake of entertaining football.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa will continue to safeguard its sovereignty as it engages with the US.

Zimbabwean businessman Lawrence Mudzinganyama has received massive backlash after boasting that he is “too wealthy” to get into trouble for following and verbally attacking a group of women in a bathroom.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that more money, resources and technology will be channelled towards fighting gender-based violence.

Police have made a breakthrough in the investigation into the series of murders of women in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng’s East Rand.

The ANC’s fading grip on Sol Plaatje in the municipality that bears the name of an ANC founding father, Sol Plaatje, a visit to a granny and a morning spent in a backyard in Galeshewe, Kimberley, shows why the Northern Cape’s capital was an ANC stronghold, but also why its hold is slipping, write Justine Lebaka and Jan Gerber.

A new ISS anti-corruption tracker uses AI to identify patterns and warning signs in a wide range of government institutions, write Nicky Prins, Florencia Belvedere and Romi Sigsworth in ISS Today.

Buffalo City Metro’s Ward 15 councillor Nwabisa Mcwabeni is free to campaign for the ANC and for another term after he was released on bail on Monday.

Western Province Cobras claimed a dramatic 44-run victory over the Dolphins at Newlands in the First Class Series on Sunday, in the only match where a winner and loser were declared in the second round.

The state spends R864 million more on protecting VIPS than on specialised policing for women and children, argues Ian Cameron.