Category: Breaking News

The vaccines, sourced from Biogenesis Bago, are expected to provide urgent support to the provinces and regions most affected by the outbreak. Steenhuisen made the announcement during a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, where Members of Parliament debated President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent State of the Nation Address. The…

South Africa’s official unemployment rate declined to 31.4% in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) results released by Statistics South Africa. The rate decreased by 0.5 of a percentage point from 31.9% in the third quarter of 2025. This comes after the number of employed people increased…

For years, it was the policy that everyone ignored. Buried in the fine print of municipal regulations and national police standards was a clear, unambiguous requirement: every metro police officer must be vetted annually. Their financial records were checked. Their criminal histories were scanned. Their links to criminal syndicates are being investigated. It was the…

The gallery of the Polokwane High Court was packed to capacity on Tuesday morning, but for the family of Frans Mogashoa, the world had shrunk to the dimensions of the wooden dock where four accused persons stood waiting. For three long years, they had lived with a gaping wound—the murder of a man who had…

The corridors of the Johannesburg High Court were unusually crowded on Tuesday morning. Reporters jostled for position near the heavy wooden doors of Courtroom D, their notepads ready. Members of the public, many wearing buttons bearing the image of a smiling little girl, filed silently into the gallery. Outside, a small group of activists held…

The sleek, modern headquarters of the City of Ekurhuleni in Germiston have long projected an image of efficiency and order. But behind the glass façade, a storm has been brewing—one that has now claimed its highest-profile casualties. In a move that sends a clear signal through the corridors of municipal power, the metro has suspended…

The hushed corridors of the Parktown conference centre, which for weeks have echoed with the grave testimonies of police officers and whistleblowers, fell into an uneasy silence on Friday afternoon. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, established to probe the rot in Gauteng’s provincial police leadership, had hit an unexpected and potentially critical roadblock. Witness F,…

The small town of Mount Ayliff, nestled in the rolling hills of the Alfred Nzo District, is not accustomed to the kind of media circus that descended upon it on the morning of Thursday, 15 February 2026. By 8 a.m., a convoy of luxury vehicles—a stark contrast to the battered minibus taxis that usually ply…

On Monday, February 9, 2026, Manqoba Mnisi kissed his grandmother goodbye at the gate of Bernard Isaacs Primary School in Coronationville, a modestly prosperous suburb on Johannesburg’s western edge. He was wearing his school uniform, neatly pressed, his grey shorts and white shirt still crisp from the weekend washing. He was carrying a small backpack…

The name Magudumana has become synonymous with scandal in South Africa, a shorthand for the intersection of celebrity, criminality, and the peculiar moral confusion of a society where fame and infamy increasingly resemble each other. Nandipha Magudumana, the celebrity doctor whose association with convicted killer and rapist Thabo Bester captivated the nation for months, has…