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A 41-year-old teacher in KwaZulu-Natal has been suspended after 11 pupils reportedly sought counselling over allegations of rape and grooming, with the provincial education department saying two criminal cases have been opened against him.

Tenants renting a house in Camps Bay at R60 000 per month stopped paying rent for nearly two years, accruing a bill of R1.4 million, while allegedly subletting parts of the property for R3 600 per night.

A photographer in rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’ entourage has described how chef Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, in his final moments, was determined to crawl to safety while bleeding profusely from the mouth and abdomen.

Graduates from Sonelise “Soso” Sibali’s community will wear academic regalia at his funeral, honouring a man who endured seven years of financial hardship to earn his degree from Walter Sisulu University, only to die 10 days after graduating.

A slain runner’s smartwatch, sold for R900 through a second-hand shop that never bothered to record who brought it in, exposes how ordinary negligence helps killers walk free, writes Nthabi Nhlapo.

Deon Meyer’s “Reacher in the bush”, Invisible on M-Net (DStv 101), is top-notch television. This eight-episode conspiracy thriller proves South African storytelling can match, and in some ways surpass, the slickness of Hollywood.

The inquest into the deaths of the Pebco Three entered its third day in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha with an in loco inspection at the Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport.

The City of Cape Town has been asked to put the brakes on the proposed sale of a 72-hectare parcel of land near Dunoon while the national Department of Human Settlements investigates how the development will benefit poor households amid the City’s housing crisis.

Mike Shingange is the new president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and Zingiswa Losi is the federation’s new general secretary.

Britain’s Prince William turned one of London’s most famous thoroughfares, The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace, into a temporary cricket pitch on Tuesday, where he was joined by some of the game’s biggest names to promote his Earthshot climate prize.

Kia emerged as September’s biggest climber among South Africa’s top 10 used-car brands, overtaking Nissan and Renault in the process, through Autotrader sales.

African Rainbow Minerals has locked horns with Assore over the management of their jointly owned Assmang operations in the Northern Cape.

When the government told Nomondo Mboyi, 67, three years ago that they would build her a new house after hers was destroyed in a storm, she didn’t bother waiting, she told GroundUp. She started building her own house, using mud bricks she made herself and using her old-age grant to buy materials and pay for labour.

A resilient rand could not stop a R3.33 petrol hike driven by soaring Brent crude and Strait of Hormuz tensions. The crisis reveals how SA’s road-reliant economy remains dangerously exposed to global oil shocks even with load shedding behind us, write Tankiso Moloi and Bhaso Ndzendze.

Recognising the importance of platform opportunities in a low-job-growth economy does not mean overlooking the conditions under which that work takes place, write Oliver Meth, Lauren Graham and Khuliso Matidza.

An 11-year-old girl shot in the waist while walking to a tuck shop in Katlehong ran home screaming that she had been shot, as her grandmother struggled to come to terms with the attack that left four people dead.

South African musician and theatremaker David Kramer announced on Wednesday that his wife, Renaye Kramer, had died.

A 15-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a six-year-old girl at a school in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday most likely still has the same thoughts and fixations that drove him to allegedly place a bomb at Ballito Junction mall in March, says the former head of the SAPS Investigative Psychology Unit.

Conceding a “consolation try” could be an expensive mishap for teams in this season’s Champions Cup tournament.

Disbanding militias is key to Libya’s reunification, but could lead to weapons stockpiles being trafficked into neighbouring countries, writes Hassane Koné in ISS Today.