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A heatwave with persistently high temperatures is expected in places over the northern parts of the Eastern Cape and over the northern parts of KwaZulu-Natal, as well as in places over the Mpumalanga Highveld and southern parts of the Mpumalanga Lowveld until Monday, according to the South African Weather Service.

Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has warned current President Emmerson Mnangagwa and allies that they are doing exactly what led to the removal of late former president Robert Mugabe.

Discovery Health has won a major court victory against the Road Accident Fund, which had been trying for years to avoid compensating accident victims whose medical expenses were covered by medical aid.

Former ANC North West regional secretary Suliman Carrim has disputed the State’s account of his arrest at OR Tambo International Airport.

Cell C has instituted legal proceedings against South Africa’s communications regulator to recover a partial payment it made for spectrum awarded through a March 2022 auction.

Sasol CEO Simon Baloyi’s total remuneration rose 65% while CFO Walt Bruns was paid almost 80% more than the previous year.

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Cape Town’s housing crisis is emerging as a key electoral battleground for the DA, with housing activists warning that growing frustration over affordability, access to well-located land and a mounting waiting list could cost the party support in communities where it has governed for years.

From a luxury Sea Point apartment fetching almost R50 million to multimillion-rand homes in Camps Bay and Green Point, Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard continues to command eye-watering prices, even as a shortage of available properties threatens to slow sales.

Following Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling on omitted candidates, the Electoral Commission of South Africa has announced that 32 political parties who were in the same predicament as the ANC should be included on the ballot in the upcoming local government elections.

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, son of the late former Zimbabwean strongman Robert Mugabe, entered the magistrate’s court in Harare handcuffed for a drug possession charge but walked out cleared.

South African rugby has been rocked by the news that lock Hyron Andrews died in a hotel in France on Friday morning.

In an open letter released on Thursday, Dolphins Cricket CEO Heinrich Strydom promised a thorough review of what was a hugely disappointing spectator turnout at Kingsmead for the first Test between the Proteas and Australia.

The social development department has rejected disinformation on social media that three million foreign nationals in South Africa receive social grants, saying the true number of refugees in the welfare net is about 21 000.

The Marabi Club, Johannesburg’s underground jazz and fine-dining icon, closed its Maboneng basement in May 2025 and will reopen in Steyn City in October. Steyn Entertainment co-founder Dale de Ruig walks Noluthando Ngcakani through the new venue, a moody speakeasy where old waskoms hang as chandeliers and a shebeen spirit lives inside a gated estate.

The bail application of a serving member of the police’s Cyber Crimes Unit, linked to those accused of killing Gqeberha prosecutor Tracy Brown, faced an unexpected postponement on Friday.

Belinda Davids has spent years touring the world singing Whitney Houston’s music. Now she steps into Rachel Marron’s shoes in ‘The Bodyguard’, her first musical theatre role, with an all-South African cast and band.

An investigating officer has detailed March and March movement member Wandile Nsibande’s criminal history and alleged conduct during a protest as the State argues against his release on bail in the Durban Magistrate’s Court.

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Bureaucrats in government will not be able to claim they did not know when protests over dysfunction in our schools break out, as we are seeing in Paris, writes Jonathan Jansen.