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By all accounts, Hasina Subedar is who you call when you need to roll out, well, anything new in public health. Known for her grit, grace and humour, the non-conformist middle child from Pietermaritzburg started out as a nurse 30 years ago. She is now responsible for getting the game-changer medication for HIV prevention into 360 clinics around the country.

South African actor and singer Letoya Makhene has once again found herself at the centre of public controversy following explosive custody claims made by her baby daddy, Johnson Masondo.

Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni and his co-accused, Oupa “Bafana” Sindane, have withdrawn their urgent application to interdict the police from executing warrants of arrest against them.

The South African Weather Service says fine and cool conditions are expected across most parts of the country, with morning fog in several provinces and changing coastal winds requiring attention.

Durban’s Addington Children’s Hospital was shut down by the apartheid government for providing care to child patients of all races. It is now well on its way from a ghostly ruin into a lifeline for a new generation thanks to visionaries like Professor Hoosen Coovadia.

A KwaZulu-Natal warrant officer has been arrested for allegedly accepting a bribe to assist three inmates to escape from police holding cells.

As soldiers and police continue their street-by-street offensive against gang violence in the Western Cape, joint operations have resulted in the seizure of firearms, drugs valued at more than R5 million and the arrest of dozens of suspects linked to a range of criminal activities.

As Chris Oldnall and Peet Crowther were knee deep in the surf at Miller’s Point beach in Cape Town – about to embark on a world first swim, a double crossing of False Bay – Crowther looked at his swimming partner and jokingly said: “This is so stupid, there must be easier ways to raise money.”

A KwaZulu-Natal Crime Intelligence police officer, who succumbed to injuries sustained during a deadly ambush in Mount Edgecombe, was laid to rest at his home in Amatikwe, Inanda, on Saturday.

The South African Weather Service has forecast fog in the morning but cloudy and warm conditions across the country, with isolated showers in Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

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Emfuleni Mayor Sipho Radebe has stepped down. ANC Gauteng Provincial Task Team coordinator Sochayile Khanyile confirmed this through a statement on Friday.

Minister of Higher Education Buti Manamela has denied that he gave instructions to the dissolved board of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to stop their progress in appointing a new chief executive officer. This eventually resulted in the aid scheme being placed under administration.

Woolworths has increased vigilance and deployed specialist forensic teams across its stores nationwide following two explosive incidents that targeted branches in Pretoria and Bloemfontein this week.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has warned of high levels of a toxin in shellfish in Saldanha Bay and surrounding coastal areas and has closed production areas for harvesting for human consumption.

Disgraced former midwife Yolande Maritz Fouchee’s jovial mood ahead of her sentencing on Thursday morning soon turned into indifference as the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria sentenced her to an effective 23 years in prison.