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As the ANC diminishes and conservative social movements rise and set the political agenda, SA politics is again in a state of rapid change, says Carol Paton.

Zoë Modiga’s new single When The Rain Comes reimagines a nursery rhyme as a meditation on storm and renewal. She talks about the song she wrote at 29 and returned to at 32, choosing softness as a radical act, and what she wants someone in a real storm to feel.

At 56 years old, Shemar Moore is still running, gunning, and rewriting the rules of TV longevity after he spoke out and risked everything – including literally getting cancelled.

The earth beneath Welkom in Matjhabeng has yielded immense global wealth through gold and uranium mining, but the surface is defined by piles of uncollected refuse and raw sewage flowing in the streets.

The past couple of seasons in the Champions Cup have tested South African teams. Going into the new campaign, the Stormers and Bulls are equipped for a deep run in the competition.

Academics have supported Umalusi’s call to scrap the public ranking of provinces through the so-called “league tables”, which are based on pupils’ performance in the National Senior Certificate exams.

Mauritius announced a curfew in some parts ‌of the country on ⁠Tuesday night, following unrest over the shooting ⁠of a woman by a police officer.

A Plettenberg Bay luxury hotel has demolished a government road-closure decision in the Western Cape High Court. This after Acting Judge Zuko Mapoma ruled the provincial infrastructure department shuttered a public road on “fundamentally falsified facts” supplied by a neighbouring landowner without bothering to check whether any of it was true.

Two ANC Youth League members were gunned down in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, on Tuesday evening.

One of the men accused of killing couple Jessica Rabe and Yudistan Pillay is plotting to kill his co-accused, the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday.

Suspended Gauteng Traffic Police Chief Inspector Samuel Mashaba has died.

Outgoing Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi has conceded the federation is out of touch with the masses despite doing “great work” in Parliament on behalf of domestic workers, farm workers, and artists.

Samilco, which represents dairy farmers in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape, says farmers are caught between declining raw milk prices and input costs rising towards “an all-time high”.

Eskom has proposed an 8.83% average power price hike, but certain consumers could pay more under a new tariff structure.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal have arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the attempted murder and assault of a 6-year-old girl at a school in KwaDukuza on Tuesday.

The asylum crisis following the Constitutional Court’s Scalabrini judgment has exposed a government unable to implement and communicate decisions, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party has cancelled its final rally ahead of the 2026 local government elections and announced an investigation into discrepancies in the Independent Electoral Commission’s final councillor candidate list.

Self-proclaimed “blesser” Serge Cabonge has claimed, on a recording played in Shadrack Sibiya’s bail proceedings on Tuesday, that the former top cop, whom he describes as “a killer”, sent hitmen to assassinate actress Tebogo Thobejane.

The South African Weather Service has issued warnings for severe thunderstorms in KwaZulu-Natal and damaging winds in parts of the Northern Cape and Western Cape.

It is certainly not a slight on the Sharks, but Luan Giliomee’s move from Durban to Pretoria didn’t just come with a change in climate, but a change in environment that includes Springbok duo Handre Pollard and Willie le Roux.