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Luxury giant Richemont and US retailer Signet Jewellers are in talks to join a consortium that’s in prime position to buy diamond miner De Beers, according to five people familiar with the matter.

The National Prosecuting Authority has dismissed claims by the March and March Movement that arrest warrants have been issued against its leader, Jacinta MaNgobese Zuma, and SA First Forum acting CEO Xolani Zuma, insisting that its prosecutorial decisions are independent and guided by the law and evidence.

New political party, Defend SA Movement, has approached the Electoral Court to challenge the IEC’s exclusion of its PR candidates from the Senqu local government elections in the Eastern Cape.

The National Arts Council announced the resignation of five board members, including its chairperson, Eugene Botha.

Much-needed military reinforcements against Boko Haram should be matched by sustained territorial control and well-coordinated operations, writes Raoul Sumo Tayo in ISS Today.

The White House was facing mounting questions Wednesday over new press secretary Katie Zacharia’s legal credentials, after a faltering first day in the job when she gave an inconclusive answer about where she had passed the bar exam.

A 37-year-old amputee from Pretoria is walking 5 000km across all nine provinces on a prosthetic leg to prove that disability is not inability – and he is already more than halfway.

The case against Lawrence Mudzinganyama, the businessman filmed lambasting and threatening women in the bathroom of a Johannesburg restaurant, has been postponed to 30 October.

South Africa has declared its newest national park in the Eastern Cape highlands after landowners, conservation partners, and an unopposed community rallied behind a voluntary biodiversity stewardship model.

All Blacks coach Dave Rennie has described next year’s Rugby World Cup draw as “crazy”.

The 18-year-old allegedly raped by Shadrack Sibiya was “totally intoxicated” on the night in question, did not even know she had been penetrated and only learnt of it afterwards, the State told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court.

South Africa’s state power utility is looking to develop new revenue streams as it prepares to unbundle and relinquish its dominance in electricity generation and transmission.

Pope Leo XIV had a “good night” in hospital and has eaten breakfast as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said Thursday.

Tucked among some of Cape Town’s most expensive homes, a small Syrah vineyard is being brought back to life.

Citizens cannot keep paying more for municipalities that deliver less, writes Ashor Sarupen.

The father of slain ANCYL member Njabulo Ngcongo has questioned why young people are dying in political violence after his son was among four people killed in a Katlehong shooting.

South Africa’s state power utility is looking to develop new revenue streams as it prepares to unbundle and relinquish its dominance in electricity generation and transmission.

Elderly Vosloorus residents confronted Deputy President Paul Mashatile with inflated municipal bills and unresolved service delivery problems, even as some pledged to keep voting ANC ahead of the 4 November local government elections.

South Africa on Thursday announced a 17-man squad ahead of the second Test against Australia starting at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on Sunday.

The NHI Fund could, by some estimates, administer in the region of R800 billion when fully implemented. That’s why we’re asking questions about initial contracting, writes Pieter du Toit.