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The Trump administration plans to set a refugee admissions ceiling of 17 500 over the next 12 months consisting “primarily” of South Africans from the country’s white Afrikaner ethnic minority, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday.

Electoral Commission of South Africa chairperson Mosotho Moepya has called on political parties to conduct their campaigns in a manner that restores trust, builds institutional integrity, and demonstrates that the democratic process can be responsive, clean, and accountable.

Johannesburg Water will close Sandton meters on Wednesday night to ensure there is water for Heritage Day on Thursday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rachel Kolisi has pushed back against what she says is the constant message sent to South African women that they must be strong and resilient, asking why the burden falls on them.

The owners of a George berry farm leased to Garden of Eden Berries – Africa’s largest strawberry exporter – took Eskom to the Western Cape High Court to block the utility from snaking a 260km transmission corridor across their property.

A shooting in KwaZulu-Natal has claimed the lives of 11 people, and three others have been injured. Police are searching for three shooters.

Police have executed a search-and-seizure warrant at the KwaZulu-Natal home of Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, who is on special leave, taking electronic devices as part of an ongoing investigation into fraud and defeating the ends of justice.