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The Gauteng Department of Education was the largest contributor to the R20.7 billion in irregular expenditure incurred by provincial education departments in the financial year ending in March.

A company that ran the ANC’s 2019 election digital campaign has approached the court for R40 million in unpaid debt and wants the court to freeze the party’s public funding before it is spent on 2026 electioneering.

Congolese “blesser” Serge Cabonge has been chasing fame for years, but often grabs headlines through his proximity to high-profile crimes: from the failed hit on actress Tebogo Thobejane to the shooting of a young man at Bellarmine Mugabe’s lavish Hyde Park property.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has returned to his desk at Luthuli House after he collapsed at the Constitutional Court last Thursday.

When Ralph Stanfield, the alleged leader of the feared 28s gang, and his wife Nicole Johnson enter the dock of the Western Cape High Court this week, it will kick off a mammoth, make-or-break organised crime trial for the National Prosecuting Authority.

A roofless, abandoned clinic, no running water or electricity, distant schools and police – and politicians who appear only before elections. In Taung’s Ward 18, residents say years of broken promises have left them fighting a daily struggle to survive.

News24 investigative journalists chat about the big picture surrounding the controversial Department of Health’s events management contract awarded to a company in liquidation.

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.

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.

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.

The closed trial of “super spy” Thulani Dlomo and Patrick Mshotola, both former operatives of the State Security Agency, in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria is “unlawful and unconstitutional” and should be open to the media and the public.

The suspects who kidnapped a Bangladeshi national have demanded a ransom of R3 million for his release.

The South African Weather Service has issued several weather warnings for Monday, with severe thunderstorms and damaging winds expected across parts of KwaZulu-Natal.

Professor Wezile Chitha has been appointed as the University of Fort Hare’s next vice-chancellor and principal.

The ANC Women’s League is demanding that ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe issue a public apology for inappropriate and derogatory remarks he made in reference to female genitalia while on the campaign trail this month.

South Africa has four new mpox cases, the Department of Health said on Sunday, bringing the total to 26 since January.

Dr Anderson Chinedu Anyikwa, a Pretoria neurosurgeon, has spent the last six years saying he was unlawfully arrested when he was pulled over while driving to his hospital to prepare for surgery at the height of the Covid-19 curfews and movement restrictions.

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa says the upcoming local government elections are a moment for national reflection and moral stocktaking, not merely political contestation.

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.

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.