News24 South Africa

The country’s fight against gender-based violence and femicide is facing a crisis of its own: funding.

Hip-hop pioneer Deon “Ready D” Daniels has withdrawn from the Cape Town mayoral race and resigned from the People’s Movement for Change, just weeks after entering politics and being announced as the party’s mayoral candidate.

Rape survivor and motivational speaker Alison Botha has issued a raw, emotional plea to the nation’s leaders after the discovery of a ninth woman’s body in Ekurhuleni reignited fury over South Africa’s gender-based violence epidemic.

The Eastern Cape Development Corporation has appointed Simpiwe Somdyala as its new CEO, tasking him with restoring financial and operational stability to the troubled provincial development financier.

Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi has been fired by the municipality.

Saturday will bring with it heavy downpurs, excessive lightning and hail for most parts of the country, according to the South African Weather Service. Some provinces will experience cool to warm conditions.

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.

An ANC councillor in Buffalo City who stands accused of assaulting his wife will spend the weekend in jail after his bail application was postponed on Friday.

There is yet another delay in the sentencing of convicted child rapist and murderer Amber Lee Hughes, as the defence will be making an application to reopen its case for purposes of mitigation.

The R5 000 bail of Durban panelbeater Julio Nobrega was officially forfeited to the State on Monday when the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban authorised an arrest warrant after he failed to appear for his murder trial.

An 18-year-old e-hailing driver appeared in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court this morning after his arrest for the rape of a 17-year-old girl at Ehlanzeni Hostel.

The two accused in the murder of boxer Zolani Tete were likely to evade trial and interfere with witnesses if they are released on bail, the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court found on Friday.

Mudslides triggered by continuous heavy rainfall led to the collapse of three houses in Tshelimnyama, Mariannhill, in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday, affecting 14 residents from three families.

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team, comprising SANParks, Cape Nature, and the City of Cape Town, plans to move two troops of Simons Town baboons to enclosures by the end of the month. But conservationists vehemently oppose the move.

The ANC’s submission of proportional representation candidate lists to the IEC has inadvertently revealed what may be the party’s closely guarded mayoral candidate selections across the country’s major metropolitan municipalities.

At least 18 new mpox cases have been reported, the Department of Health has said, with most of them centred in the Western Cape.

The DA’s federal executive was expected to consider the political future of “bogus doctor” accused Abdulkader “AK” Elyas on Wednesday night, but the matter was pulled from the agenda at the last minute.

The UDM is preparing to head to the Electoral Court after some of its candidates, most of whom had been announced and paraded at events as mayoral candidates, were nowhere to be seen on the IEC’s published list of candidates.

Cape Town will host the World Robot Olympiad international final in 2028, the first time the event is held in Africa.

Accused of improperly trying to transfer 28s gang leader George “Geweld” Thomas and influencing fraud-accused businessman Thoshan Panday’s jail hospitalisation, KwaZulu-Natal prison boss Mnikelwa Nxele has been suspended on full pay for four years.