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The DA is arguing that employment equity targets proposed in a new labour law would make finding a job for coloured and Indian South Africans near impossible, but its court challenge has the makings of yet another hot potato that could possibly push the limits of the government of national unity.

Despite a Department of Basic Education directive that all officials and educators, including those in office- and school-based posts, must be vetted against the National Register for Sex Offenders, only 19% have been vetted nationally.

The National Treasury spent almost R2.4 million on service providers for the 19 February Budget speech that was postponed at the eleventh hour.

Mushtak Parker has become the first judge in South African legal history to respond with silence to serious misconduct complaints against him – including accusations that he lied about whether then-Judge President John Hlophe physically assaulted him.

Police have confirmed that the remains of three police officers who went missing last week on Thursday have been positively identified among the five bodies that were retrieved from the Hennops River in Centurion.

While acting with impunity, Israel subjects anyone who seeks to hold it accountable for its "inhumane and unlawful actions" in Gaza to counter-measures, South Africa argued in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Tuesday.

The Western Cape High Court has heard that there are seemingly different versions of what happened to Joshlin Smith on 19 February 2024 – the day that she went missing.

The South African Weather Service has warned of scattered showers and thundershowers expected in parts of the Northern Cape, especially central and southern regions.

On Tuesday in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg the testimony of a former outpatient clerk at Stanger Hospital corroborated discrepancies in the initial inquest timeline of the alleged accident. The discrepancies had been raised by a previous expert witness who led evidence in the reopened inquest of ANC leader Albert Luthuli.

Just a little over a month after Pastor Timothy Omotoso was acquitted on more than 30 charges of rape and human trafficking, the Nigerian televangelist is planning a massive crusade in East London next week. However, a question mark hangs over his citizenship status in South Africa.

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Two of the three shots that killed Stefan Smit came from a gun that had previously been in his possession.

Five bodies have been found during the search for the three constables who went missing last Thursday.