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A 49-year-old man has been arrested for failing to appear before the Madlanga Commission.

A classmate of the 16-year-old boy who broke into an Umhlali school in KwaZulu-Natal and allegedly stabbed a 6-year-old girl multiple times has spoken about how the teen threatened him, racially abused staff and bullied his peers.

Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero believes his administration is on track with its efforts to deal with some of the critical issues ailing the city.

The City of Cape Town is concerned that its MyCiTi bus network will be severely affected by the national government phasing out the Public Transport Network Grant within the next three years.

The education department has slammed a ‘malicious fake news article generated using AI’ that claims there has been a leak of the National Senior Certificate English Paper 3 exam, saying that it is ‘baseless’ and an attempt to ‘disrupt’ the matric exams.

A classmate of the 16-year-old boy who broke into an Umhlali school in KwaZulu-Natal and allegedly stabbed a 6-year-old girl multiple times has spoken about how the teen threatened him, racially abused staff and bullied his peers.

Being Joburg’s mayor is often deadly. How does succession work in the ANC? Who wins, who loses and who dies? Welcome to an edge-of-your-seat episode of this live serial about the city and its mayors.

After 10 years of waiting, the ANC-led Dihlabeng Local Municipality in the Free State suddenly built 90 houses – just in time for the 4 November local government elections.

MPs have questioned why the director-general of the Department of Basic Education, Mathanzima Mweli, personally visits about 190 matric marking centres annually rather than delegating the responsibility to provincial education departments.

The Constitutional Court has saved ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula’s political career. But Mbalula’s outburst at the DA will have set many people talking. Carol Paton analyses Thursday’s momentous events.

Furious Sea Point residents are waging war against a luxury boutique hotel they say will choke an already narrow road.

Two ANC members were shot and killed while conducting a door-to-door campaign in Umgababa, Durban, on Thursday.

The Madlanga Commission has rejected allegations that its members sought to interfere with a criminal investigation, calling the claims “false, incoherent and not supported by any facts”.

A Stellenbosch University security guard has finally bought a car after a fundraiser raised over R50 000, but a family tragedy delayed his plans.

A serving member of the police’s Cyber Crimes Unit allegedly helped launder kidnapping ransoms, sheltered his brother after a second abduction and removed proceeds of crime to Pretoria, according to a Hawks investigator’s affidavit read out in the Gqerbeha Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

Police have seized 69 000 Mandrax tablets worth an estimated R5.5 million at a storage facility in Grassy Park, Cape Town, and arrested a 58-year-old woman on Thursday.

As political parties reacted to the Constitutional Court’s ruling in the ANC’s favour in its case regarding the submission of election candidate lists, the ACDP recalled that it had once received a similar ruling.

Since former president Jacob Zuma was admitted to St Anne’s Netcare Hospital in Pietermaritzburg on 6 October, after falling ill during a campaign event in Msinga, the party and members of his family have been sending contradictory signals about his condition.

The State has told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday that Shadrack Sibiya deliberately wiped the cellphones he was using around the time of the alleged offences, destroying evidence that shows exactly what he is capable of if released on bail.

While the ANC celebrated a Constitutional Court ruling against the IEC over its refusal to include its candidate list on the ballot, one Eastern Cape municipality party to the case is gripped by infighting among ANC councillors.