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President Cyril Ramaphosa has tasked the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) with probing allegations of serious maladministration and corruption at the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and the Gauteng Department of Human Settlements.

The City of Cape Town has unveiled a colour-coded online tool showing coastal water-quality results for beaches and tidal pools.

An Eastern Cape teachers’ union officer who died after a sudden illness while attending a conference in Brazil last week has been hailed a “champion” in the fight against gender-based violence.

The defence’s bid to secure a lighter sentence for a man who murdered his secret lover in a Durban hotel a decade ago suffered a blow in the court on Tuesday, when his own psychological expert conceded that he could be faking his apparent distress.

Schools being forced to buy water, pit latrine toilets at early childhood development centres, and pupils from a special school having to board a bus at 03:20 – these are among the problems identified by the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education at Mpumalanga schools.

Information peddler Oupa Brown Mogotsi has been denied bail for a fourth time.

Former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula was repeatedly asked in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday why she did not ask more questions about a meeting involving former military contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu and the late former secretary of defence, Dr Sam Gulube.

The City of Cape Town could not confirm reports of a tornado after severe weather on Tuesday morning damaged several homes in Mitchells Plain.

A WhatsApp warning about fake Home Affairs officials going door-to-door for census-linked ID checks and fingerprints is circulating again in South African community groups.

The Gauteng Political Killings Task Team is again rounding up close associates of alleged crime boss Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala.

A group of naturists is chafing over signage installed at Cape Town’s unofficial nudist beach, prohibiting them from sunbathing in their birthday suits.

A close associate of the senior police officer accused of rape and sexual grooming claims that the lieutenant-general is being targeted.

Thistle & Weed started out as a Chenin Blanc producer. Ten years later, its founders are betting that some of South Africa’s lesser-known Mediterranean varieties could have a bigger role to play in the country’s red-wine future.

A 59-year-old high-ranking police officer was arrested, allegedly at a strip club in Sandton, Gauteng, on Monday.

While we have learnt much about the money swirling around the political system in the past five years, there are still massive blind spots.

Vehicle-tracking records place a state-owned white Audi, linked to Judge Portia Phahlane, at venues where a former court interpreter alleges the judge secretly met Michael Sandlana and agreed to help him win the International Pentecostal Holiness Church succession battle in return for bribes.

AfriForum’s Private Prosecution Unit is pursuing the criminal prosecution of ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula for falsely accusing an innocent school principal, Jaco Pieterse, of rape.

An iconic landmark in Kalk Bay, Cape Town, has turned a kiddies’ tidal pool into a deck for diners and bands, resulting in an icy reception from locals with whom relations are already rocky.

At just two years old, Ethan Msithini-Zimunya has already developed a dynamic personality and is such a friendly little boy that he will give a thumbs-up to almost everyone.

An Eastern Cape family has made a desperate appeal to the public to help locate their relative, who has been missing ever since being kidnapped at his home in March.