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Denmark-born Jakob Holbak left a 20-year career at Maersk to launch Refreshi, an app connecting South Africans with surplus food from stores and restaurants at steep discounts.

Twelve-year-old Nnete Leotlela is known by his family as a humble, compassionate, brave and smart Mosotho boy who loves and adores everyone he meets. But his life has taken a turn for the worse after he was viciously attacked by five German Shepherds while on his way to collect his younger brother from aftercare earlier this month.

South Africa has fought back against an “opportunistic” petition two Ghanaians submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in which they claim that there were “widespread and systematic” xenophobic attacks in the country.

Parliament’s higher education and training portfolio committee has called into question National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) administrator Hlengani Mathebula’s unilateral appointment of ex-Daybreak Farms chair, Bojane Segooa, as a member of the entity’s risk and audit committee.

A 70-year-old woman has reportedly been charged with the murder of a South African woman in France.

Police have arrested a man who was wanted for more than a decade for a Free State murder and robbery.

A witness in the sexual assault trial of former St John’s Preparatory School teacher Brett Nicholson has described how a relationship he once cherished as a child turned into something he has spent years trying to forget.

Retired Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has accused IDAC head Andrea Johnson of making a legal mistake that a first-year law student wouldn’t make, as she also faced a charge of misusing her powers from commissioner Sesi Baloyi.

From advocate Andrea Johnson’s Feroz Khan dilemma to an ‘Oasis Index’ pegging Cape Town as one of the world’s cheapest cities for beer, this is Unread.

What should have been a dignified farewell for a beloved husband turned into a nightmare for a Cape Town family after they spent hours searching for his body on the morning of his funeral, despite paying an undertaker almost R30 000 for what they believed was a premium package.

Cape Town’s St Cyprian’s School won the Grand Prix at the Golden Voices of Barcelona competition, while St Mary’s DSG Kloof also claimed top honours.

The ANC in the Free State has suspended Lejweleputswa District Municipality Mayor Phindiwe Maseko five weeks after her appointment – after she defied a party directive on cadre deployment to the mayoral committee.

A water leak at the City of Cape Town’s Town Two Clinic in Khayelitsha has damaged an unknown number of patient folders, disrupting healthcare services and reigniting community concerns over the safety of medical records.

Opposition parties are adamant that President Cyril Ramaphosa must appear before the impeachment committee, answer their questions himself, and if he chooses not to testify, this refusal could be held against him.

Police officers serving one of Mossel Bay’s busiest communities remain stationed in dilapidated container offices and ageing Wendy houses despite years of promises that a permanent police station would be built.

A fresh legal battle has erupted over the long-running Central Karoo municipality fundraising probe after PA leader Gayton McKenzie asked the High Court to declare the Western Cape government’s Section 106 investigation unlawful and bring it to an end.

A Durban man accused of a violent kidnapping and murder dating back to 2022 has admitted to some of the charges against him.

Johannesburg Director of Public Prosecutions Andrew Chauke has been cleared of all the accusations levelled against him by former prosecutions head Shamila Batohi, and has been found fit to return to office.

Former Speaker of the National Assembly and defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering in relation to alleged corruption amounting to R4.5 million.

Fine and warm conditions are expected across Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, while the Western Cape will experience cold and rainy weather with intermittent rain spreading eastward, according to the South African Weather Service.