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In the second episode of News24’s Pitch Report cricket podcast, Lloyd Burnard and Keanan Hemmonsbey discuss the disappointing crowd attendance at Kingsmead in what was the Proteas’ first home Test since winning the World Test Championship.

South Africa’s batting lineup will have a different look to it when they face off against Australia in the second Test match on Sunday, after a few big selections calls were made on Wednesday.

A R10 billion fuel relief buffer awarded to the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources remains untouched and has earned almost R342 million in interest while officials weigh how to deploy it.

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has moved to make it much harder to unwind approved mergers, days after the Competition Commission moved to unwind Premier Foods’ R6 billion RFG takeover deal.

Half of the CEOs at the 200 biggest companies listed on the JSE earned more than R23.2 million in 2026, as performance-linked incentives drove the compensation boom.

Richemont’s reported interest in buying into De Beers has divided investment analysts.

A classmate of the 16-year-old boy who broke into an Umhlali school in KwaZulu-Natal and allegedly stabbed a 6-year-old girl multiple times has spoken about how the teen threatened him, racially abused staff and bullied his peers.

Being Joburg’s mayor is often deadly. How does succession work in the ANC? Who wins, who loses and who dies? Welcome to an edge-of-your-seat episode of this live serial about the city and its mayors.

South Africa’s electric vehicle transition is gathering speed, but there is something rather odd about the way we are going about it, writes Sbu Mkwanazi.

Although recent flood damage has disrupted classic road trip routes to Prince Albert, it remains an essential small-town Karoo destination.

A constitutional law expert, the Home Affairs minister, and civil society voices debate whether the violence that followed the Constitutional Court’s asylum ruling could have been prevented – and who bears responsibility

After 10 years of waiting, the ANC-led Dihlabeng Local Municipality in the Free State suddenly built 90 houses – just in time for the 4 November local government elections.

MPs have questioned why the director-general of the Department of Basic Education, Mathanzima Mweli, personally visits about 190 matric marking centres annually rather than delegating the responsibility to provincial education departments.

The Constitutional Court has saved ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s political career. But Mbalula’s outburst at the DA will have set many people talking. Carol Paton analyses Thursday’s momentous events.

Spain has put forward some of the country’s biggest football stadiums, including Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu and ‌Barcelona’s Camp Nou, as part of its ⁠bid to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup, the Spanish ⁠Rugby Federation said on Thursday.

Furious Sea Point residents are waging war against a luxury boutique hotel they say will choke an already narrow road.

Two ANC members were shot and killed while conducting a door-to-door campaign in Umgababa, Durban, on Thursday.

Lies about citizenship and voting rights went viral after a Constitutional Court asylum ruling – Home Affairs is fighting back with digital reform, not political spin, argues Leon Schreiber.

Home Affairs’ retreat from its own lawful directive after disinformation-fuelled violence, shows not strength but weakness – and signals to anti-rights groups that intimidation works, argue Sharon Ekambaram, Dale McKinley and Rebecca Walker.

March and March, supercharged by social media amplification that spreads disinformation and artificially inflates outrage, is pulling the country apart through polarisation and institutional attack, write Kyle Findlay and Aldu Cornelissen.