The bell did not ring at Mthatha’s Nkwanca Primary School on Tuesday morning. Nor did it ring at Ngangelizwe High, or at the scattered farm schools dotting the hillsides of the OR Tambo District. Instead, the sound that filled the air was the relentless drumming of rain on tin roofs, the gurgle of brown water…
A 45-year-old funeral parlour employee appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court, where she was granted bail of R30,000 after allegedly defrauding clients of more than R500,000. Ponatsego Anna Ngwenya, a general manager at Royal Funerals in Soshanguve, Tshwane, is accused of misleading clients into taking out funeral policies and diverting their payments into her personal…
The lunchtime crowd outside the Boxer store in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, was doing what it always does on a Tuesday—haggling over airtime vouchers, pushing grocery-laden trolleys toward idling minibus taxis, and shielding eyes from the harsh May sun. No one paid much attention to the Fidelity Services cash van that pulled into the designated bay just…
In the labyrinthine belly of the Durban Harbour, where the clang of container cranes never truly ceases and the salt-tinged air carries the diesel hum of a thousand trucks, an intelligence-driven operation reached its climax in the pre-dawn hours of May 5. For weeks, a joint task force of the KZN police, customs officials, and…
On a bright September morning in 2022, the earth in Jagersfontein moved in a way no one had ever felt before. There was no earthquake. There was no thunder. There was only a low, guttural groan—and then the mud came. A collapsed tailings dam at the Jagersfontein Mine, a dormant diamond operation turned active tailings…
A late-night police operation in Soshanguve turned violent after suspects linked to a business robbery opened fire on officers, leading to a shootout and the recovery of a stolen ATM and an unlicensed firearm.According to the South African Police Service (SAPS), the incident took place on Monday night, 4 May 2026, at around 21:15. Police…
There is a particular shade of grey that the Highveld sky turns before a serious winter front moves in. It is not the soft, cotton-grey of summer rain. It is a hard, metallic grey—the colour of steel just before it snaps. On Tuesday morning, that colour stretched from the Magaliesberg to the Maluti mountains, and…
The Parliamentary Village in Cape Town is usually a sanctuary of political privilege—a gated cluster of townhouses where Members of Parliament sleep between legislative battles, shielded from the chaos of the streets. But just before dawn on Tuesday, the tranquillity was shattered by the flash of blue lights and the crunch of boots on gravel….
The red dust of the Kalahari usually settles quietly over Olifantshoek by Sunday evening. The iron-ore trucks have stopped rumbling. The church bells have fallen silent. Families gather around braais, and children play late into the twilight under the watchful gaze of acacia trees. But this past Sunday, 3 May 2026, the peace was shattered…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Tshwane has voiced strong concern over what it describes as a “slap-on-the-wrist” sanction imposed on Eugene Modise, the city’s Deputy Mayor and MMC for Finance, after findings that he financially benefited from a municipal security contract. According to the DA, Modise has been fined an amount equivalent to two months’…
