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In a morning characterised by tense exchanges, criminally accused tenderpreneur Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala’s advocate said he would only have been able to answer questions about who he “doesn’t know” if he was forced to testify at the Madlanga Commission on Wednesday.

Most driving licence testing centres in the Western Cape began using a computerised system for learner’s licence testing in 2025. In the first few months after it started rolling out, the pass rate in the province fell to 17%.

With viable land, public support, and more than 60 design proposals already on the table, Cape Town’s affordable housing crisis no longer suffers from a shortage of ideas – only a shortage of political will and firm timelines, write Zacharia Mashele and Zamindlela Mkhwanazi.

After deliberations between Comrades Marathon Association (CMA), KwaZulu-Natal Athletics (KZNA) and Athletics South Africa (ASA), they have agreed that the date of next year’s centenary must be signed off by KZNA.

SA Rugby president Mark Alexander has admitted the decision to play two All Blacks Tests at FNB Stadium in Johannesburg was driven by profit, but defended it as part of a broader strategy to make rugby financially viable and fend off breakaway leagues.

The Kearsney College Choir has struck double gold at the prestigious World Choral Festival in Hong Kong, winning both categories it had entered and securing a place in the competition’s Grand Prix final.

The Mozambican firm RGS appeared in court on Wednesday for a fourth time in a matter related to a dodgy bank letter, with the case postponed to 31 July.

Somerset Mall in Somerset West, Cape Town, is among the casualties of power issues due to theft and vandalism of power lines in the area, Eskom has said.

South Africa’s lobbying problem is not simply about corruption or undue influence. It is about something more pervasive and, in many ways, more damaging: policy capture, argues Lara French.

Richemont sales expanded nearly twice as much as expected in the three months through June, supported by robust demand among wealthy Americans for its Cartier rings and bracelets.

An Eastern Cape anti-immigrant group has announced plans to use its 67 Mandela Day minutes to “clean” the province of undocumented immigrants in major towns, but police have warned that lawlessness will not be tolerated.

Johannesburg farmer and botanist Phetole Raseropo, known as Soweto’s “Seedling Guy”, turned an abandoned school into a thriving urban farm and seedling nursery, supporting small-scale farmers with affordable seedlings and mentorship.

As the first and only New Zealand captain to lead the All Blacks to a series win in South Africa, Sean Fitzpatrick won’t entertain talk of building for the World Cup during the inaugural Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry tour.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has increased the budget for the AmaZulu monarchy, with a R93.5 million allocation for King Misuzulu kaZwelithini and his household plus funding for a new royal trust board to manage projects that will bring in revenue in the long term.

The Zimbabwean government says nearly 100 000 of its citizens have returned from South Africa since late May amid heightened tensions over immigration in South Africa, where groups such as March and March called for foreigners to leave the country.

When Handre Pollard, arguably the greatest flyhalf in the history of Springbok rugby, made his Test debut against Scotland in Gqeberha all the way back in 2014, Vusi Moyo was eight years old.

Retired Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga contends there was no “factual basis” for the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption to probe MP Fadiel Adams’ accusations against Crime Intelligence top cops. He said, however, that this did not mean crimes were not committed.

The mother of a pupil who collapsed at a Grade 12 boot camp and died at a nearby clinic shortly thereafter has alleged that teachers were nowhere to be found during the incident.

SA’s mobile operators and digital infrastructure providers have welcomed a move by the government to speed up the rollout of fibre, but warn rules don’t go far enough to combat “rent-seeking” municipalities.

Julius Malema and the EFF are trapped by their own contradictions. The party is bankrolled by a cigarette smuggler, led by a man whose lavish lifestyle and compromised loyalties make him the very opposite of the economic liberation he preaches, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.