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Johannesburg's landfill sites will be reduced by half this year as two major dumps reach the end of their lifespan, adding to growing costs the City can ill afford.

ANC treasurer-general Gwen Ramokgopa says those seeking to reverse the Expropriation Act and broad-based black economic empowerment policies are "unconstitutional" in their behaviour.

Authorities are on high alert after South African Weather Service warnings were issued for several provinces.

Cape Town CBD residents are up in arms over the municipality's proposed budget, with particular outrage directed at the planned increase in property rates.

South Africa's most notorious prison is home to juvenile remand detainees as young as 17 years old, many who have committed double murders, business robberies and extortion.

Judge Philip Loubser - who has been appointed to decide the State's asbestos scam case against former Premier Ace Magashule - resigned as an apartheid-era prosecutor after he was targeted for providing evidence that saved an activist from the gallows.

The standard of 28 question papers set for private school pupils in the November 2024 National Senior Certificate exams was "generally considered subpar", while 13 included ambiguous questions that could "confuse" candidates.

The notion of no taxation without representation seems to be a vague concept in Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mind, one of the judges hearing the DA and EFF's court case to prevent a VAT increase remarked.

ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile's soft launch of his presidential campaign in Mofolo, Soweto, on Tuesday was less of a declaration of ambition and more of a show of the confidence that the branches have in him to succeed President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Petrus Phakamile Sitho, 42, is strikingly out of place in Orania; nevertheless, the East London resident travelled to the Northern Cape to show solidarity with the whites-only Afrikaner enclave - as the EFF staged a protest against it.

In a recent address to Parliament, posted to the EFF YouTube channel, party leader Julius Malema made several wide-ranging claims concerning farm murders, the treatment of white South Africans, and United States surveillance and aid policy.

The Gauteng Provincial Legislature's Portfolio Committee on Health and Wellness said it found the Tembisa hospital to be compliant with occupational health and safety standards and that its threshold for compliance was above minimum.

ANC Northern Cape chair Premier Zamani Saul appears to be apprehensive about claims that Deputy President Paul Mashatile survived an assassination attempt.

Sithembiso Mdlalose says his confession to the commission of inquiry into the deadly Usindiso building fire was made "under duress" – and he wants the court to disregard it.

Instead of the Aids denialism of decades past, it’s US funding cuts that could lead to up to 300 000 more HIV infections in the next four years. Activists like Sisonke Msimang say the past has some answers for the current fight.

Authorities remain on high alert in the Buffalo City and Amathole District municipalities after a forecast for heavy rains on Tuesday.

Scattered showers and thundershowers are expected across multiple provinces, with widespread rainfall in specific areas, according to the South African Weather Service.

Raquel "Kelly" Smith, who stands accused of being the mastermind in the kidnapping and trafficking of her young daughter, Joshlin, denied telling the investigating officer that Joshlin's disappearance made her famous.

The late ANC stalwart Chief Albert John Luthuli was the first leader of the party to appeal across colour lines, and this was why the racist apartheid regime hated him so much.

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