The high-profile trial of Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the outspoken daughter of former president Jacob Zuma and a sitting Member of Parliament for the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, is set to resume on Monday morning in the Durban High Court. The case, which has drawn intense public and political scrutiny, centers on allegations that Zuma-Sambudla played a…
In a packed conference hall at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, where the air thrummed with a mixture of anticipation and nervous energy, Geordin Hill-Lewis was elected as the new Federal Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday afternoon. And in a searing, defiant acceptance speech that drew repeated standing ovations—and a few…
In the city that was built on diamonds—and then abandoned when the big stones ran out—history is repeating itself with brutal efficiency. More than 1,200 mine workers from Ekapa Minerals in Kimberley are facing severe hardship after the diamond mining operation was placed under provisional liquidation, leaving entire families without salaries for months and casting…
As millions of South Africans and foreign nationals prepare to crisscross the country’s land borders during the busy Easter holiday period, the Commissioner of the Border Management Authority (BMA), Dr Michael Masiapato, is set to brief the media on Sunday, 12 April 2026, to share comprehensive statistics on cross-border movement and to highlight the operational…
What began as a routine vehicle checkpoint along the N1 highway south of Bloemfontein in the early hours of Tuesday morning quickly unraveled into a scene of bureaucratic horror, humanitarian concern, and breathtaking negligence. Free State traffic officers, conducting a standard roadworthiness and documentation sweep, intercepted a long-distance passenger bus traveling from Zimbabwe to Cape…
In the quiet, tree-lined streets of Florida, a suburb not typically associated with cross-border criminal syndicates, an intelligence-led operation unfolded in the early hours of Thursday morning that has sent a clear message to vehicle theft rings operating in Gauteng: the border is no longer a guarantee of escape. The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD)…
The heavy wooden doors of the Durban Magistrate’s Court swung open just after 9am on Friday, ushering in a scene that has become painfully familiar to those following one of South Africa’s most high-profile murder cases. The accused. The lawyers. The family members clutching photographs. The journalists straining for a glimpse, a word, a clue….
In the soaring atrium of the Sandton Convention Centre, where the city’s business elite mingled with international investors over canapés and coffee, there was a palpable sense of something shifting. Not just the usual buzz of a conference—the business cards exchanged, the hands shaken, the promises made—but something rarer: the feeling that the promises might…
The heavy wooden doors of the Cape Town Magistrates Court swung open briefly on Monday morning, then closed again with the hollow thud of yet another postponement. Inside, the family of Anele Tembe sat in the same pews they have occupied for more than five years—waiting, watching, and wondering if the answers they have been…
The army has arrived. Green uniforms patrol streets where gang lords once held unchallenged sway. Armored vehicles sit at intersections that were, until recently, kill zones. And yet, as the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) settles into its controversial new role on the Cape Flats, a growing chorus of voices in Parliament is asking…
