News24 South Africa

News24 brings you the top stories of the day, summarised into neat little packages. Read through quickly or listen to the articles via our customised text-to-speech feature.

Senior Crime Intelligence officer Colonel Ismail Dawood has been granted R10 000 bail after an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.

After apologising to Gonubie residents who endured a crippling water outage that lasted for days, the Buffalo City Metro moved quickly to praise its technical teams for their “swift response” to the interruption.

The defence in the trial of alleged underworld figure Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala has suggested that state witness Bethwell Cele may have accidentally shot taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni during a shootout outside the Centurion Residential Estate and Country Club in August 2022.

The distraught family of Gqeberha mother Vanessa van Rensburg, who was murdered, allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, has said the grief and pain of losing their loved one had deepened more than a year on.

Three suspects who engaged in a brazen shootout with police have died in Kwadwesi in Gqeberha.

The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday blocked the defence from introducing a photograph of the Centurion estate where taxi boss Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni was shot in August 2022 during the third day of alleged underworld figure Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala’s trial.

Residents opposed to plans to convert a Randburg property into a mosque argue that too few Muslims live in the suburb to justify the development, and warn that the facility would exacerbate traffic congestion and parking issues.

Lawyer Carel Schoeman claims that he was joking when he labelled a R25 000 payment to the mother of a 13-year-old girl he is accused of “buying” as “lobola”.

Nkosi Mpumalanga Gwadiso, who has been described as a reliable leader, will be given an official provincial funeral.

Lawyer Carel Schoeman claims that he did not buy a 13-year-old girl, whom he insists he believed was an adult, but instead paid her mother so the child would stop being prostituted.

Children growing up in Cape Town’s poorest communities are still paying the price for apartheid spatial planning more than three decades into democracy.

The ANC is close to finalising its mayoral picks for South Africa’s three most contested Gauteng metros, with Reverend Frank Chikane, Aaron Maluleke and Ntombi Mekgwe emerging as frontrunners in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, respectively.

UK fugitive Ndodana Tshuma has abandoned bail in a case in which he is accused of unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The EFF will launch its election manifesto and unveil its mayoral candidates for metros and significant cities when it celebrates its 13th anniversary in Thoyohandou, Limpopo, on Saturday.

The ANC is under mounting pressure to explain why it shortlisted and interviewed Thanduxolo Khalipha, the sitting Matjhabeng mayor, as a mayoral candidate in the municipality, despite his criminal conviction, pending ANC disciplinary proceedings, and multiple governance failures.

The Thai Table 789 in Oxford Parks is one of Johannesburg’s most beautiful dining rooms, housed in a space that promises an elevated communal Thai dining experience. The newbie on the high-end dining block delivers one high-note red curry, low-note starters, rescued by its nam jim sauces and a R135 dessert that Noluthando Ngcakani swears was just two Nutella scoops topped with fresh strawberries.

Parliament’s impeachment committee postponed the selection of their evidence leader for its inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa over Phala Phala.

The Gauteng and Limpopo cases of suspended Organised Crime Unit officer Sergeant Fannie Nkosi have been centralised and will now be heard together in the Pretoria Regional Court.

The Special Investigating Unit has referred several individuals and entities to the National Prosecuting Authority as part of its probe into procurement irregularities at the Greater Kokstad Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal.