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Annual consumer inflation cooled to 2.7% in March from 3.2% in February, largely due to lower fuel prices.

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has asked the Development Bank of South Africa to spearhead renovations at Bryntirion Estate in Pretoria, where President Cyril Ramaphosa's official Mahlamba Ndlopfu residence is located.

Capitec's share price rallied after it delivered a 30% jump in earnings and its total dividend for the year to end-February exceeded analysts' estimates.

Johannesburg's landfill sites will be reduced by half this year as two major dumps reach the end of their lifespan, adding to growing costs the City can ill afford.

ANC treasurer-general Gwen Ramokgopa says those seeking to reverse the Expropriation Act and broad-based black economic empowerment policies are "unconstitutional" in their behaviour.

A Durban City FC player, Sinamandla Zondi, died after collapsing ahead of a Motsepe Foundation Championship match against Milford FC at Chatsworth Stadium on Tuesday night.

Authorities are on high alert after South African Weather Service warnings were issued for several provinces.

Stock markets were enjoying a much-needed relief rally on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he had no plans to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, and hinted at lower tariffs for China.

Cape Town CBD residents are up in arms over the municipality's proposed budget, with particular outrage directed at the planned increase in property rates.

Cricket South Africa has confirmed that the Warriors' transformation case has been settled. The franchise retains its division one status while agreeing to a R100 000 fine for cricket development programmes.

South Africa's most notorious prison is home to juvenile remand detainees as young as 17 years old, many who have committed double murders, business robberies and extortion.

Judge Philip Loubser - who has been appointed to decide the State's asbestos scam case against former Premier Ace Magashule - resigned as an apartheid-era prosecutor after he was targeted for providing evidence that saved an activist from the gallows.

The standard of 28 question papers set for private school pupils in the November 2024 National Senior Certificate exams was "generally considered subpar", while 13 included ambiguous questions that could "confuse" candidates.

The notion of no taxation without representation seems to be a vague concept in Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mind, one of the judges hearing the DA and EFF's court case to prevent a VAT increase remarked.

ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile's soft launch of his presidential campaign in Mofolo, Soweto, on Tuesday was less of a declaration of ambition and more of a show of the confidence that the branches have in him to succeed President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Maize prices saw a shock 15% surge in a single trading session on Tuesday as excessive rain delayed harvests.

Forgotten Bok flanker Marcell Coetzee has been the relentless driving force on the Bulls' tour of Europe. With the Glasgow match representing the last frontier, the Bulls will need a repeat effort.

SA Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago has expressed frustration with the functioning of the Group of 20 during an event in the US.

Under Pope Francis — who rehabilitated liberation theology, embraced simplicity and prioritised the marginalised — the Catholic Church underwent a much-needed attitude change. But many conservatives were not happy with this shift says one expert.

Tony Leon reflects on lessons for the US-SA relations in the relationship between Jorge Bergoglio (who later became Pope Francis) and the former president to Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.