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Newly elected Cosatu president Mike Shingange has issued a sharp warning to the federation’s alliance partners that it will not stand for disrespect.

On Friday, Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health called Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and the department’s deputy director-general, Nicholas Crisp, to account for findings made in a News24 investigation, published on Sunday, 27 September.

NCC MP Fadiel Adams has accused the Cape of Good Hope SPCA of politically motivated prosecution after the animal welfare organisation charged him with cruelty to his African Grey parrot, Cookie.

A member of the police’s Cyber Crimes Unit in Pretoria who is embroiled in the case of slain Gqeberha prosecutor Tracy Brown has launched his bid for bail in the city’s magistrate’s court.

The Register for Tender Defaulters has not a single name on it despite decades of corruption scandals, SIU proclamations and failed public projects. The DA is calling for five reforms and has opened a public portal to report suspected dodgy tenders.

The Electoral Commission of South Africa has drawn up contingency plans should the Constitutional Court rule against it in the dispute over the ANC’s candidate lists for the 2026 local government elections.

When Ukrainian drones struck several Russian data centres last week, social media users began reporting something extraordinary.

Shadrack Sibiya’s lawyer has dismissed as “nonsensical” the State’s claim that the now-axed deputy national police commissioner hatched an escape plan and denied the existence of any “cabal” working to intimidate witnesses on his behalf.

MPs on Wednesday described the treatment of a state-employed food aide hired to work in former social development minister Sisisi Tolashe’s private residence as “modern slavery”.

A 41-year-old teacher in KwaZulu-Natal has been suspended after 11 pupils reportedly sought counselling over allegations of rape and grooming, with the provincial education department saying two criminal cases have been opened against him.

Tenants renting a house in Camps Bay at R60 000 per month stopped paying rent for nearly two years, accruing a bill of R1.4 million, while allegedly subletting parts of the property for R3 600 per night.

A photographer in rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’ entourage has described how chef Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, in his final moments, was determined to crawl to safety while bleeding profusely from the mouth and abdomen.

Kiernan “AKA” Forbes’ road manager has told the Durban High Court how he fled gunfire alongside Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, only to find AKA dead outside Wish Restaurant. He realised later that the shots had not been aimed at him.

Graduates from Sonelise “Soso” Sibali’s community will wear academic regalia at his funeral, honouring a man who endured seven years of financial hardship to earn his degree from Walter Sisulu University, only to die 10 days after graduating.

The inquest into the deaths of the Pebco Three entered its third day in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha with an in loco inspection at the Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport.

The City of Cape Town has been asked to put the brakes on the proposed sale of a 72-hectare parcel of land near Dunoon while the national Department of Human Settlements investigates how the development will benefit poor households amid the City’s housing crisis.

Mike Shingange is the new president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and Zingiswa Losi is the federation’s new general secretary.

When the government told Nomondo Mboyi, 67, three years ago that they would build her a new house after hers was destroyed in a storm, she didn’t bother waiting, she told GroundUp. She started building her own house, using mud bricks she made herself and using her old-age grant to buy materials and pay for labour.

An 11-year-old girl shot in the waist while walking to a tuck shop in Katlehong ran home screaming that she had been shot, as her grandmother struggled to come to terms with the attack that left four people dead.

South African musician and theatremaker David Kramer announced on Wednesday that his wife, Renaye Kramer, had died.