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The South African National Editors’ Forum has welcomed the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s strong statement urging political party leaders and their supporters to ensure and actively facilitate unhindered election-related reporting by the media.

Friday’s weather across South Africa includes severe thunderstorms in some regions. The Northern Cape and Western Cape are under a yellow Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms, which may bring excessive lightning, hail and gusty winds.

The dispute over the pride flag at Bishops Diocesan College in Cape Town has escalated into a broader governance crisis, with 122 Old Diocesans formally “requisitioning” a special general meeting to vote for the removal of the Old Diocesan Committee.

In Ngcobo, an Eastern Cape town about 85km from Mthatha, Intercape buses will be using the police station as a bus stop in terms of a recent court order.

Police seized a total of 140 firearms, while a further 135 remained unaccounted for during the arrest of a businessman from Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape, earlier this week.

The DA in Tshwane has demanded that Deputy Mayor Eugene Modise’s salary be immediately docked for two months because there was no formal indication that the previously approved sanction had been implemented.

On average, a mass killing in which more than three people die takes place every week in South Africa.

Mexican cartels have been setting up massive methamphetamine laboratories in South Africa, which supply the huge demand for the drug in Australia and New Zealand, investigators say.

The ANC has welcomed the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda’s dismissal of an urgent application challenging its candidate lists for the 2026 local government elections, and has urged Eastern Cape members to close ranks ahead of the 4 November poll.

Legendary South African artist Irma Stern’s renowned painting, ‘Arab Priest’, has returned to the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town for a limited time.

As a young boy, Thembelani Zondo started making small wire cars, inspired by real ones that passed by his home in Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal. Now, at 25, he has built a functioning Bugatti-style car from recycled materials, proudly bearing his surname.

The police had to admit to Parliament on Wednesday that their statistics for crimes against women and children are “inherently not correct”.

Taxi boss Oupa Bafana Sindane’s lawyers told the Madlanga Commission he would not be able to appear before it this week because he was engaged in the “sacred ancestral initiation journey of the called Isangoma” – and was “in a period of sacred spiritual seclusion”.

The controversy over the newly approved Foundation Phase National Catalogue has taken a dramatic turn after the Western Cape education department said it will not purchase learning materials listed in the document for 2027.

Two child rape cases have emerged in Limpopo – one of the accused is a teacher, while the other is a 13-year-old relative.

The vibrant geometric patterns that launched Esther Mahlangu’s global career are fading. The thatch roof of the hut she built and painted at Botshabelo is caving in. And the R20 million the Lottery gave to save the historic Ndebele cultural village outside Middelburg? Nobody knows where it went.

Generative artificial intelligence can potentially pose a risk to South African heritage if used irresponsibly, a panel heard during a heritage month roundtable, hosted by the National Arts Council.

In Unread’s special midweek edition ahead of Heritage Day, we bring you all the details you need to know about Shadrack Sibiya’s shock arrest for alleged rape and the sexual grooming of a minor.

Thursday’s weather across the country features partly cloudy skies with warm to hot temperatures. Isolated showers and thundershowers are expected in some areas, particularly in the afternoon, according to the South African Weather Service.

Six Eastern Cape municipal officials, including a suspended accounting officer, appeared in the Qumbu Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in connection with a fraud and money laundering scheme.