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The Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) faulty portal will be up and running by November, acting commissioner Malebo Mabitje-Thompson said on Monday.

An investigation by the Special Investigating Unit into the Free State Provincial Government Bursary Scheme uncovered serious maladministration to the tune of more than R8 million, including one official awarding bursaries to relatives and 13 officials being awarded full-time bursaries in contravention of policy.

March and March’s leaders say their movement is not xenophobic. They say it is a peaceful organisation. But the facts say otherwise, and March and March is playing with fire.

The R320 million Durban Solid Waste fraud trial involving former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has been halted by illness and a traditional cleansing ritual, causing delays in the trial that has entered its sixth year.

Immigrants in the Overberg fled to the beaches and the mountains over the weekend as protests against immigrants gathered momentum. In Mossel Bay, the deaths of several Mozambican nationals were reported, and dozens of homes were burned. Dozens of families were displaced.

Four men were shot dead, and two were critically wounded in a suspected taxi-related attack at an informal rank in Philippi, Cape Town, on Tuesday morning.

Party hopper Liam Jacobs says he should have never left the DA in the first place, and that he was misled by lies.

Comedian Barry Hilton is championing preventative care following a health scare two years ago.

Thirteen trailblazers in innovation were honoured at the second Western Cape Economy Innovation Awards in Cape Town on Monday, including work transport provider Bluebird, recruitment technology platform Jobjack, and Checkers Sixty60.

Two suspected armed robbers have been killed in a shootout with KwaZulu-Natal police in KwaMsane, and a third has been injured.

The South African Weather Service has forecast partly cloudy, cool to warm conditions for most of the country, while isolated showers are expected in parts of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.

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The ANC Women’s League has resisted pressure to ask its president, Sisisi Tolashe, to resign, saying that she is innocent until proven guilty and has not been directed by the ANC to “step aside” from her duties.

Mcebisi Gugu Ndlovu went from washing pots at a Doppio Zero to owning his own small bakery in Khayelitsha that baked a cake for President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Liam Jacobs has made a sensational return to the DA after a year with Gayton Mckenzie’s Patriotic Alliance (PA).

The Brakpan Magistrate’s Court has dismissed the bail application of the man who allegedly killed Marius van der Merwe, who was known as Witness D at the Madlanga Commission.

In this episode, Janine speaks to Nicole Donker Torres, a South African racing driver who first got behind the wheel at just eight years old. Today, she races in the Forza Women’s Single-seater series and co-founded a company that will rally other young women to enter local motorsport.

A 35-year-old man has been arrested in a drug bust in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, in which suspected crystal meth worth R3 million was found under a mattress.

The man who is alleged to have shot dead Marius van der Merwe, known as Witness D at the Madlanga Commission, has been denied bail.

A landmark study at Tswalu Kalahari Reserve is poised to spotlight the vital role medium-sized carnivores play in the savanna ecosystem.