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Battleground 2026 is not just another election. It’s a moment in time when the tectonic plates that make up South Africa’s political world will shift and realign.

The DA is battling internal tensions after Gauteng leaders held a second meeting with protest group March and March over the weekend, but then quietly removed the evidence from social media.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded at length, in writing, to each of the United States’ five demands to mend ties with SA, diplomats said on Tuesday, after Washington’s ambassador accused him of ignoring most of the demands.

Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero says even though he served as mayor for just 25 days, a lot of work was done in the city under his leadership.

The waters off South Africa are so rich with wind energy resources that floating wind farms built there could theoretically power the entire country more than three times over, according to a recent World Bank report.

The extortion-accused associate, with whom taxi tycoon Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni discussed “hitmen” on WhatsApp, has launched an urgent court bid to block the Madlanga Commission from exposing any evidence taken from his phone.

The ad hoc committee investigating the underworld’s infiltration of the criminal justice system shot down an EFF proposal to hold President Cyril Ramaphosa responsible for the Inspector-General of Intelligence’s inability to appear before it.

A group of Afrikaans artists is taking an exhibition to Washington, DC, to push back against an installation that aims to draw attention to farm attacks.

The Special Investigating Unit raided the offices of the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority in Centurion, Pretoria, on Tuesday as part of an investigation into a R130 million training tender.

The director-general of the Department of Basic Education, Mathanzima Mweli, has disclosed that he initially suggested to Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube and her deputy, Reginah Mhaule, that the three of them voluntarily undergo lifestyle audits.

Suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya had plans to escape from jail and threatened witnesses, according to intelligence, the State told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.

The South African Weather Service has issued warnings for severe thunderstorms that may cause damage to infrastructure and vehicles in four provinces. The rest of the country will experience cloudy and cool to warm conditions with isolated showers and thundershowers.

An Eastern Cape taxi boss, who was suspected of being behind the killing of two police officers in Mthatha, has died following a shootout with police on Tuesday.

In the latest controversy over the submission of candidate lists for the November local government elections, the DA launched court action against the Electoral Commission of South Africa and four political parties, arguing that their proportional representation lists are unconstitutional and should be set aside.

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South African investigative journalist Roshan Micah Reddy has been released by Djiboutian authorities after four days in intelligence custody.

Convicted murderer Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen’s claims of remorse crumbled under cross-examination in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban on Tuesday, as prosecutor Advocate Vasi Chetty exposed how he left his lover’s body to decompose.

Three men have been shot and killed in KTC informal settlement in Gugulethu, Cape Town on Tuesday morning, with police investigating a possible link to an alleged robbery involving fibre installation workers in the area.

Western Cape police are scanning through CCTV footage detailing events that took place before and after 73-year-old Mariette Mouton was robbed and violently attacked inside her home in Republic Street in Bredasdorp on Monday.

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.