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He became the ANC’s youngest ward councillor in Cape Town after winning a public vote ahead of the 2021 local government elections. Four years later, 31-year-old Lwazi Pakade is now in the running to become the party’s youngest mayoral candidate as the ANC searches for a leader capable of reversing years of electoral decline in the city.

The National Energy Regulator has released Version 3 of its draft rules for electricity trading for public comment. Alexandra Felekis and Busisiwe Nhlapo examine the pros and cons.

With reputational harm as his strongest argument and a high bar for interfering with Parliament’s oversight role, the president seemingly faces an uphill battle to halt an impeachment committee process into the Phala Phala saga.

Hayley Ivins-Downes of the property data group Lightstone analyses the trends in residential buying by foreigners over the past decade.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Buffalo City woman who was gunned down near the premises of her former employer on Monday.

A man who targeted and robbed e-hailing drivers in Eersterust, Pretoria, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A month-long search for missing North-West University student Naledi Destiny Zwane has yet to yield results after the 20-year-old went missing in Meyerton, near Vereeniging in the Vaal.

Patients in northern KwaZulu-Natal are being forced to travel up to 118km to access healthcare after Ngwelezana Tertiary Hospital in Empangeni stopped accepting most admissions because it has run out of beds.

A North West MEC who took her own premier, her provincial treasury colleague, and a state-owned entity to court over a disputed board appointment has been handed a stinging personal costs order after a judge found she concealed crucial information from the court.

The Ministry of Sport, Arts and Culture will be verifying the facts around the use of Springbok symbolism by the organisers of an Afrikaner-only school tournament with the Bureau of Heraldry.

Partly cloudy, fine and cool conditions are expected in most of the country, while it will be cold in some parts of the Western Cape and the Free State, according to the South African Weather Service.

Seven people lost their lives in residential fires across Cape Town in just one weekend as the city battles a sharp rise in winter blazes, with officials warning that the risk of deadly fires remains high during the colder months.

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) said on Wednesday that it would soon meet with the SACP to formalise election-campaign cooperation after announcing its support for the party in the November local government polls.

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The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban has sentenced a former Chester Butcheries employee to life imprisonment for masterminding a revenge hijacking that led to the murder of metro police inspector Errol George Ogle.

Stefan Pretorius – accused of dousing his wife in an unknown liquid and setting her alight – allegedly told the police officer who arrested him he was acting in self-defence.

Angola remains in talks about a potential investment in De Beers and wants a stake large enough to help shape the company’s strategy, Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister Diamantino Azevedo said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has hit back at what it described as a “sustained campaign” aimed at isolating South Africa from the rest of the African continent.

Pretoria pharmacist iDexis, which has halted compounding of GLP-1 drugs following a high court judgement, says it will appeal the ruling and believes it is being “singled out” among compounding pharmacies.

Amazon Leo, the tech giant’s competitor for Elon Musk’s Starlink, has entered into a distribution agreement with Herotel to introduce fast satellite internet in South Africa as early as next year.