The atmosphere inside Courtroom 4D at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria was thick enough to cut with a knife. On one side of the polished oak benches sat the accused—five men charged with the murder of a national icon. On the other side sat the family of Senzo Meyiwa, the former Orlando Pirates and…
The tap in Nomsa Dlamini’s kitchen has been dry for eleven days. Not a trickle. Not a drip. Just the hollow, mocking sound of air when she turns the handle. In her backyard, a collection of plastic drums and rusted buckets sits under a corrugated iron awning, filled with water she hauled from a communal…
The Easter mass at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was a spectacle of golden light and ancient ritual. At the front of the congregation, standing just a few meters from President Vladimir Putin, was an unexpected guest: Errol Musk, the 79-year-old father of the world’s richest man, dressed in a dark suit and wearing…
The sun was barely over the horizon when they began to gather. First a dozen, then a hundred, then a thousand. Young men and women, some still in their teens, others well into their thirties, clutching stacks of printed CVs and wearing expressions that hovered somewhere between hope and desperation. By 9 a.m. on Tuesday,…
The sun was high over the Emfuleni Local Municipality offices on the morning of 30 March 2026. It was a Monday, the start of a new week, and Martha Mani Rantsofu had arrived early, as she always did. The 39-year-old acting accountant carried a brown lunch bag in one hand and a stack of financial…
Residents of Hammanskraal have been left frustrated after a scheduled meeting addressing the ongoing water crisis was abruptly postponed, prompting an apology from the city of Tshwane’s mayor. Dr Nasiphi Moya issued a public apology, expressing regret over the disruption and explaining the circumstances that led to the cancellation. According to Moya, she had been…
The stench hits you before the sight does. It hangs in the air of Diepsloot Extension 1 like a permanent, unwelcome guest—a thick cocktail of raw sewage, stale water, and the quiet desperation of people who have been forgotten. On Wednesday morning, that desperation boiled over. Hundreds of residents from this sprawling informal settlement gathered…
The man who once orchestrated the world’s greatest sporting spectacle—who stood on a podium in Zurich and brought the FIFA World Cup to African soil for the first time—walked into the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning with the weight of a different kind of legacy on his shoulders. Dr. Danny Jordaan, the embattled…
The gunshots came just after 9 p.m., shattering the fragile quiet of a Tuesday evening in NY78, Gugulethu. There was no argument first. No shouting. No screech of tires. Just the sharp, rhythmic crack of what witnesses later described as a high-caliber firearm—pop, pop, pop—followed by a silence that felt heavier than the noise itself….
The fluorescent lights of the Eskom Conference Centre in Sunninghill flickered once, twice, as if the building itself was weary from the day’s proceedings. For nearly nine hours, representatives from South Africa’s embattled power utility and the country’s largest labour unions had sat across a polished oak table, trading proposals, counter-proposals, and, toward the end,…
