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Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’ road manager has told the Durban High Court how he fled gunfire alongside Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, only to find AKA dead outside Wish Restaurant. He realised later that the shots had not been aimed at him.

Two victims at the heart of the case against Shadrack Sibiya have told the court they are living in terror – one is suicidal, the other is a 16-year-old under witness protection, who says she will blame herself if her family is harmed.

The South African documentary The Philipstown WireCar Grand Prix has been nominated for an International Emmy Award.

The death toll in the Katlehong shooting has risen to four after two more victims died in hospital, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala has abandoned bail in the leasing fraud case pending the finalisation of his trial in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg for the alleged attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend, Tebogo Thobejane, and others.

Former DR Congo president Joseph Kabila on Monday joined forces with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group to head a new outfit, taking a more direct role in the insurgency ravaging the country’s volatile east.

Mondvol got a R30 000 corporate order with a proof of payment attached. Out went the cookies, but the money never arrived. When the scammers came back for seconds, Mondvol was ready.

Japan’s prime minister said on Wednesday she probably spends “three or four more hours” than her male predecessors tackling household duties on top of her already packed daily schedule.

Born from staggered lockdown runs, Vannie Hanover Park grew into a 100-member movement. In 2026, it became Hanover Park’s first Western Province Athletics-registered running club – running not from gunfire, but toward possibility.

The water crisis is not a funding shortage – it’s the failure to ring-fence water revenue for water services, allowing municipalities to quietly let infrastructure deteriorate while spending that money elsewhere, writes Sean Phillips.

Pope Leo XIV spent a calm night and was to begin post-surgery recovery Wednesday, a day after having a cancerous tumour removed from his lung.

Following a dreamlike past 24 months in the red-ball format, the Proteas were brought back down to Earth by a humbling 214-run defeat against Australia in Durban.

Veteran financial journalist Alec Hogg has acknowledged that he should have been more forthcoming about his company’s shareholding in troubled Africa Bitcoin Corporation.

A decision by Parliament’s ethics committee to “close the files” on complaints laid by #UniteBehind against former Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula and chair of the transport Portfolio Committee, Dikeledi Magadzi, has been reviewed and set aside.

Allan Gray, which oversees $29 billion (R329 billion) in assets, favours Nigerian stocks over South Korean equities, as they offer a diversification play from the artificial-intelligence frenzy that has swept markets from Wall Street to Asia.

A gunman opened fire on a group of mourners returning from a memorial service in Katlehong, killing two ANC Youth League members and injuring five others, including an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old.

In a proportional representation system, people vote for a party, not a candidate, said Judge Lebogang Modiba when she heard the DA’s application against the MK Party, EFF, ActionSA and the GOOD party in the Electoral Court on Tuesday.

Despite promising he would challenge Judge Nkosinathi Chili’s ruling that compels him to face trial for arms deal corruption next year, Jacob Zuma hasn’t done so – and he has dropped all his other prosecution-related appeals.

US credit ratings giant Moody’s expects the government of national unity to survive the upcoming local elections, the ANC’s presidential contest next year, and the 2029 national elections.

A criminal case has been registered against ticket supplier Adriaan Pieterse over alleged losses exceeding R22 million. But his lawyer denies wrongdoing and says a reconciliation shows that money is owed to Pieterse – and not to his accusers.