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Weeks after a key witness to boxer Zolani Tete’s murder received death threats, witnesses in the case are now undergoing trauma counselling, the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday.

Three of Knysna’s senior municipal figures have been granted bail after a corruption investigation uncovered allegations of cash payments, demands for hundreds of thousands of rands, and the alleged use of third-party bank accounts in dealings linked to a municipal security contract.

The collapse and prolonged closure of a key North Coast inland road is piling costs onto farmers, businesses and motorists, with residents’ organisations accusing KwaZulu-Natal authorities of ignoring warnings about the P104 for almost three years before it finally failed.

The threat of legal action derailed an attempt to remove the mayor of Theewaterskloof, in the latest contestation in the embattled Western Cape municipality.

A witness has told the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban how Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane crawled wounded from the spot where rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes lay bleeding after gunfire erupted on Durban’s Florida Road in February 2023, recounting the chaos that left both friends dead outside a restaurant nearby.

Seafarers from South Africa and abroad have rallied together to raise more than R50 000 for the families of five mariners who died at sea off Mossel Bay last month.

The Western Cape will introduce arithmetic lessons in isiXhosa to thousands of Grade 1 pupils from next year. Nearly 3 500 Grade 1 and Grade 2 teachers were trained in September and October to teach numeracy in children’s home languages.

Self-proclaimed “blesser” Serge Cabonge implicated Sergeant Fannie Nkosi as the real middleman between Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala and former deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya.

The DA has accused Tshwane’s leadership of wasting R777 million on water tanker services, with Cilliers Brink demanding answers from Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi over what the party calls the city’s “water tanker mafia”.

Residents of Cwaru village, near Middledrift in the Eastern Cape, told GroundUp they are still in the dark over how RDP houses were handed out, six years after a storm levelled roughly 100 homes in the community.

Xenophobia and Afrophobia are symptoms of a failing and collapsing working and middle-class economy, and addressing the root causes needs to be prioritised, says Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier and IFP provincial leader Thamsanqa Ntuli has defended his decision to request army deployment during violent protests in Durban over the weekend, hitting back at criticism from within his own party after 19 people were arrested in connection with the unrest.

“It came down to what was more important, family or rugby?”

Court records and extensive reporting show that Jacob Zuma received state-funded security, specialised medical care, and treatment at home.

In October 2020, Maxine Williams bit into a hamburger at Beyerskloof Wine Bar in Stellenbosch, swallowed a needle-like object, bled, was rushed to the emergency room, and survived hours of failed surgery and five days in hospital.

A social worker is in a critical condition after being stabbed by a department client enraged over the removal of her children at a Mthatha’s Social Development office in the Eastern Cape.

Sphelele “Magolide” Shinga and Malizo Dzanibe were granted R1 000 bail each in the Durban Magistrate’s Court, with strict conditions barring them from protest-related activities and prohibiting intimidation during visits to the Department of Home Affairs.

South Africa’s coastline is getting new interpretive signs so that people who were previously unable to read or fully understand them may have access to the information.