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After 32 years in the Gauteng Legislature, Jack Bloom is preparing for a new role as Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation.

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The heartbroken mother of six-year-old Desney Struis says she will never forget the moment her desperate search for her missing daughter ended in unimaginable tragedy after she followed a trail of footprints to the little girl’s partially clothed body on a farm in Ceres earlier this month.

A senior advertising agency executive who quit after a viral video of him making inappropriate comments to two women at the recent Cannes Lions International Festival in France – while allegedly drunk – has booked himself into rehab.

Former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula allegedly confirmed to businesswoman Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu during a meeting at Johannesburg’s InterContinental Hotel that requests for money made in her name were genuine, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard on Thursday.

A March and March cleanup in the Durban CBD descended into chaos on Thursday as police and participants clashed.

The defence in the trial of alleged criminal kingpin Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala on Thursday challenged the State witness’ version of events by arguing that not a single spent 9mm cartridge was recovered from the August 2022 crime scene, despite an earlier testimony that the witness fired at least 15 shots.

MK Party MP David Skosana said he would open a criminal case against embattled Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head Andrea Johnson on Friday.

KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Francois Rodgers has given the troubled eNdumeni Local Municipality, near Dundee in northern KwaZulu-Natal, until 31 July 2026 to pass its 2026/27 budget, or face dissolution.

Daveyton residents, led by the Greater Benoni Organisation, gathered under the March and March banner for another weekly protest on Thursday, but the movement appears to be losing steam in the area, with the crowd beginning to dwindle.

Former defence minister and ex-National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption trial has heard how former military contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu allegedly received a request for R300 000 that she was told was intended to assist the senior ANC politician with a personal matter.

The Electoral Commission of SA is anticipating that the number of candidates standing for election in the 4 November polls could surpass the 100 000 mark.

PA leader Gayton McKenzie has launched a fresh High Court bid to have the Western Cape government’s long-running investigation into his controversial Central Karoo fundraising campaign declared unlawful, arguing that, legally, the probe expired nearly three years ago, making every investigative step taken since then invalid.

The Western Cape High Court has ordered the eviction of 161 unlawful occupiers from Transnet-owned land in Woodstock and Salt River in Cape Town.

The Special Investigating Unit is looking into “allegations of serious maladministration” involving 24 contracts at the municipality.

The corruption case of Gauteng High Court Judge Portia Phahlane is one step closer to trial, with the State having now wrapped up its investigations.

Former Emadlangeni Municipality mayor, Lindile Mhlungu, and co-accused Musawenkosi Thwala appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court on fraud and corruption charges.

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The ANC’s leader in the City of Cape Town council, Ndithini Tyhido, is facing a disciplinary process that could cost him his council seat.

Lawyer Carel Schoeman – accused of “buying” and raping a 13-year-old girl – maintains that he thought she was an adult, but admits becoming suspicious, specifically after a waiter asked the girl for her ID as they were sitting in the smoking section of the Spur restaurant in Witbank.