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The Hawks’ investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three South African Navy sailors during a submarine exercise off Kommetjie in 2023 remains ongoing, with no indication of when it is expected to be concluded.

It will be another rainy day in South Africa, according to the South African Weather Service. While isolated afternoon showers are predicted, it will also be warm and partly cloudy for parts of the country.

Three men accused of murdering Formula Ford champion Robert Wolk appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Monday, where the State alleged the killing was a targeted hit.

The murder of Jabulile Ntimba appears to have stemmed from a possible love triangle, police said, as they continue to investigate whether her killing is linked to the murder of several other women in Ekurhuleni.

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For the first time, Petrus Hendrik van Rooyen has admitted to shooting and killing 37-year-old Jan Johannes Craemer, with whom he was having a secret affair.

The R823 million allocated to Operation Prosper was associated with 77 fewer murders in the Western Cape, based on quarterly crime statistics. But murders in the province increased from the first three months of the year, even as they dropped year-on-year.

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said on Monday that if he were re-elected as the mayor on 4 November, his administration would “accelerate our city-owned land releases” to pave the way for more low-cost housing projects.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa will continue to safeguard its sovereignty as it engages with the US.

Zimbabwean businessman Lawrence Mudzinganyama has received massive backlash after boasting that he is “too wealthy” to get into trouble for following and verbally attacking a group of women in a bathroom.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that more money, resources and technology will be channelled towards fighting gender-based violence.

Police have made a breakthrough in the investigation into the series of murders of women in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng’s East Rand.

The ANC’s fading grip on Sol Plaatje in the municipality that bears the name of an ANC founding father, Sol Plaatje, a visit to a granny and a morning spent in a backyard in Galeshewe, Kimberley, shows why the Northern Cape’s capital was an ANC stronghold, but also why its hold is slipping, write Justine Lebaka and Jan Gerber.

Buffalo City Metro’s Ward 15 councillor Nwabisa Mcwabeni is free to campaign for the ANC and for another term after he was released on bail on Monday.

In December 2014, 42-year-old plumber Clint Ovrenovitz was murdered while fishing at the Swartkops River in Gqeberha by two men, one of whom was out on bail for murder and was considered by police to be among their ‘most-wanted’ criminals.

FW de Klerk Foundation executive director, Christo van der Rheede, said he’s taking legal advice after the organisation announced his resignation and distanced itself from comments he had made related to US-South African relations.

Treverton College head girl Sienna Marx claimed first place in the 21km Adventure Marathon Titanic Challenge Trail Run in Clarens, finishing as the youngest female competitor in the race.

A total of 574 so-called wealthy schools in Gauteng have taken a hefty knock after the provincial education department slashed their combined subsidy by R343.9 million, reducing it from R545.3 million in 2025 to R201.4 million in 2026.

Visitors turned up in their numbers at Air Force Base Waterkloof in Pretoria this week for the Africa Aerospace and Defence 2026 show, a five-day defence and aviation exhibition.

Three people were killed and another injured in a shooting in Lingelethu-West, Cape Town, on Sunday night.