In a move that has sent ripples through the legal and political landscape, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appointment of veteran advocate Andy Mothibi as the new National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) has been met with a measured, yet notably surprised, response from one of the country’s key constitutional watchdogs. The Council for the Advancement of…
A profound and devastating tragedy has struck the rural community of Dithakong Village outside Mahikeng, casting a long shadow over the new year. In the early hours of the morning on Friday, 3 January 2026, a ferocious fire engulfed a family home, reducing it to a charred shell and claiming the life of a beloved…
Gauteng Education MEC, Mr. Matome Chiloane, announced today that the Department has made substantial and accelerated progress in resolving the critical annual challenge of placing learners for the 2026 academic year. With schools set to reopen on 14 January 2026, the number of unplaced Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners has been drastically reduced to 4,858. This…
In a significant administrative concession, City Power has announced a six-month extension to its controversial mandate requiring non-vending prepaid residential customers to switch to post-paid billing systems. The new deadline, now set for 30 June 2026, replaces the original year-end cutoff of 31 December 2025, granting hundreds of thousands of households a much-needed breather to navigate…
The air in Parliament’s committee corridor is thick with a tension that rivals that of the most heated budget debates. Here, however, the currency is not rand, but truth—or at least, competing versions of it. The newly constituted Ad Hoc Committee on the Infiltration of the Justice System, a creature born of overwhelming public pressure…
The grey Atlantic swelled beneath a brooding sky, a neutral witness to the confrontation unfolding on its surface. The FSS Petr Velikiy, a hulking, Russian-flagged Aframax tanker, cut a steady path northeast. In its belly, 700,000 barrels of crude oil sloshed—cargo acquired, according to hastily filed manifests, from a shadowy mid-sea transfer with a vessel linked…
In the heart of South Africa’s industrial and logistical hub, a distinct sense of pragmatic calm has begun to settle over the City of Ekurhuleni. This shift is widely attributed to the steady, hands-on leadership of its Mayor, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, whose methodical and visible approach to governance is gradually rebuilding public trust and instilling a renewed…
In a characteristically combative session of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee investigating alleged state capture and judicial interference, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Commander-in-Chief Julius Malema launched a scathing rebuke against what he termed “cowardly” and “politically convenient” insinuations of corruption within South Africa’s judiciary, demanding that accusers either present concrete evidence or forever hold their peace. The fiery…
The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a severe and sustained warning, indicating that the volatile and destructive weather patterns that have marked the start of 2026 are expected to continue unabated throughout the remainder of the summer season. Eastern and north-eastern regions of the country are bracing for a prolonged period of extreme…
The South African national men’s football team, Bafana Bafana, returned home to a subdued OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday morning following a dramatic and gut-wrenching elimination from the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco. Touching down aboard a chartered flight from Casablanca, the players and technical staff, led by head coach Hugo…
