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He went from cleaning ships in Africa to managing oil rigs. Then a brain tumour made him rethink his life and return to a childhood dream of becoming a farmer.

A man who knocked a French-speaking guest unconscious with a single punch at a Bantry Bay party, leaving him with skull fractures and permanent hearing loss, has walked free after the Western Cape High Court ruled the blow was in self-defence.

Rugby teams across the European Champions and Challenge Cups on Saturday paid tribute to Lions lock Hyron Andrews, who died suddenly on Friday.

A detailed plan posted to social media last week is believed to be that of the 16-year-old boy who is alleged to have repeatedly stabbed a little girl at a special needs school in Umhlali on Tuesday.

The City of Ekurhuleni is spending over R1.27 million every month on security for swimming pool facilities, a staggering 32 of which are non-operational, a written response to the DA has revealed.

Serious concerns have emerged over the police investigation into the deaths of St Stithians Girls’ College pupil Cameron Waldeck-Cooks and Ethan Coetzee, with her family alleging that police returned their cellphones to their families the day their bodies were discovered – without downloading potentially crucial evidence.

A 17-year-old Mitchells Plain girl took her own life after months of cyberbullying – including the non-consensual sharing of a nude video – leaving her family devastated.

The MK Party says fielding izinduna and traditional leaders as councillor candidates will restore accountability in rural municipalities. But in uMkhanyakude – where a R151 million water scheme collapsed, and taps have run dry for years beside a full dam – residents are asking a more basic question: who will bring the water?

A DA councillor candidate who teaches men about toxic masculinity is at the centre of a viral video showing him brutally beating his ex-wife – who says it was not the first time.

The fatal shooting of a MAC’s motorcycle club member in a Pretoria bar last Saturday was not an isolated incident – it was the latest flashpoint in an alleged campaign of violence by MAC’s members that sources say has left multiple people hospitalised and an entire community living in fear.

A billionaire businessman who tried to bankroll a R60-million redevelopment of a luxury golf estate’s clubhouse and driving range is now being accused of using a governance crisis to seize control of the board.

When Thomas Johnson, a Standard Bank client for 30 years, told Wendy Knowler that for two months the bank had been telling him his thumbprints couldn’t be verified against Home Affairs records, and handed him a letter saying it couldn’t do any transactions on his profile until Home Affairs sorted the matter out, she took up his case with both the bank and the department.

He was one of the heartthrobs on a Netflix dating show, is an influencer and model, but former Cheetahs powerhouse kicker Gerrie Labuschagné now has his sights set on a new American dream.

As his political memoir hits bookshops this week, co-author Anneliese Burgess speaks with Roelf Meyer about the white genocide narrative, being called a sellout, his 40-year political love affair with the USA, and his new role as South Africa’s ambassador to the United States.

SA could learn as soon as 1 November whether it will retain its duty-free trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.

The Proteas may be heading into Sunday’s second Test against Australia at St George’s Park in Gqeberha on the backfoot after comprehensively losing the first Test, but they’ll at least have Kagiso Rabada to call on to bolster their bowling attack.

In this week’s News24 Sunday Edition: Azarrah Karrim exposes how the Department of Health may have paid millions for NHI, health and wellness services to a company that had been placed in liquidation; Alex Patrick reports on a detailed plan believed to be that of the 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a little girl at a special needs school in Umhlali; and Anneliese Burgess speaks to Roelf Meyer about life in Washington, DC.

A South African startup is building and trialling a solution to the country’s railway theft problem. Its railway monitoring system uses tech so cheap that nobody should be interested in stealing it.

Police and protesters clashed violently in Paris and other French cities on Saturday as half a million people marched against soaring inflation, with one demonstrator’s hand blown off, multiple blazes set and dozens of shops stripped bare by looters.

The MK Party has confirmed that Zuma was discharged from hospital after state vehicles, believed to be carrying the former president and a security detail, were seen leaving Netcare St Anne’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday evening.