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Author Deon Meyer released his latest book, which follows detective Benny Griesel, who is assigned the case of a well-known private investigator crushed by a BMW in his garage.

Johannesburg and Pretoria breathe unsafe air for more than half the year. And long-term exposure could be quietly destroying your health, experts warn.

In this week’s edition of News24’s satirical column, Alec Hogg forgets to mention his shares, while the Concourt bails out Fikile Mbalula after he forgot to click “Submit as Final”.

March and March member Wandile Nsibande was rearrested minutes after being granted R1 000 bail in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Friday, with the leader of the anti-immigrant group, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, saying he was taken into custody over an alleged parole violation.

The State is opposing bail for former ANC North West regional secretary Suliman Carrim, arguing that his address has not been verified and that he could evade further proceedings after allegedly repeatedly failing to appear before the Madlanga Commission.

The ANC in the Moses Mabhida region in KwaZulu-Natal, under which the uMshwathi Local Municipality falls, has welcomed the Constitutional Court ruling that the Electoral Commission of South Africa must do everything in its power to ensure that the party can compete in the six municipalities affected by its failure to press the “submit as final” button when it submitted its candidate lists.

Four people have been arrested following the discovery of a suspected drug laboratory at a house in Meadowlands, Soweto, on Friday.

Phumeza Hashe last saw her father in a prison visiting room in East London in 1984. At the time, she was a political detainee, and he was a man she already knew the security police intended to kill.

Former president Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, has told the head of the Presidential Protection Service, Major General Wally Rhoode, that should her father die, she will lay the blame squarely on his team.

The public will be prevented from hearing portions of testimony in the R12 million theft, fraud, forgery and uttering trial of former State Security Agency special operations boss Thulani Dlomo and former project manager Patrick Mshothola.

University of Cape Town council chairperson Norman Arendse has agreed to step aside from deliberations on Vice-Chancellor Mosa Moshabela’s court challenge against the university’s governing body, despite an independent determination finding no conflict of interest requiring his recusal.

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The Kruger National Park’s infamous rhino poacher, former senior game ranger Rodney Landela, will spend the next 10 years in jail.

Helen Zille’s election campaign just got interesting. The 75-year-old DA Johannesburg mayoral candidate is now spinning cars. Yes, you heard right.

Former ANC North West regional secretary Suliman Carrim has disputed the State’s account of his arrest at OR Tambo International Airport.

Cape Town’s housing crisis is emerging as a key electoral battleground for the DA, with housing activists warning that growing frustration over affordability, access to well-located land and a mounting waiting list could cost the party support in communities where it has governed for years.

From a luxury Sea Point apartment fetching almost R50 million to multimillion-rand homes in Camps Bay and Green Point, Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard continues to command eye-watering prices, even as a shortage of available properties threatens to slow sales.

Following Thursday’s Constitutional Court ruling on omitted candidates, the Electoral Commission of South Africa has announced that 32 political parties who were in the same predicament as the ANC should be included on the ballot in the upcoming local government elections.

The social development department has rejected disinformation on social media that three million foreign nationals in South Africa receive social grants, saying the true number of refugees in the welfare net is about 21 000.

The bail application of a serving member of the police’s Cyber Crimes Unit, linked to those accused of killing Gqeberha prosecutor Tracy Brown, faced an unexpected postponement on Friday.