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In her nearly 30 years in public healthcare, Rolene Wagner has risen to lead an institution that many had given up on: the debt-wracked, conflict-ridden Eastern Cape Department of Health. Her upbringing has custom-suited her to the task.

Limpopo teacher, Job Legodi, learnt a hard lesson after telling his principal to "voetsek". He approached the Education Labour Relations Council after the provincial education department fined him R3 000 and issued a final written warning for using the vulgar word in an exchange with his principal, Marupeng Ramootla.

Beloved South African wrestling icon Freddie Harmse is gearing up for the fight of his life after being diagnosed with stage four cancer. He has relinquished the title he still held at the amazing age of 63 to give himself the best chance of overcoming his illness.

The ANC's dominance is diminishing even further while the DA is emerging as a viable alternative for voters, according to recent polls from three organisations.

For the past three weeks leading up to Easter, small-scale fishers along the pristine Hout Bay coastline have been burning the midnight oil – but now, an eerie silence lingers as business remains slow.

The MK Party's meteoric rise in KwaZulu-Natal continues as the party leapfrogged the DA and the ANC in eThekwini's Ward 110 which, according to residents and a former DA member, has been plagued by service delivery issues for more than a year.

The South African Revenue Service has been denied permission to appeal a ruling requiring it to stop deducting funds from Road Accident Fund levies, allocated towards its R5.1 billion settlement agreement with Eskom.

The reopened inquest into the 1967 death of ANC leader Chief Albert John Luthuli will resume in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday.

The US Embassy in South Africa has expressed its gratitude to the South African Police Service for locating and rescuing a kidnapped US citizen in the Eastern Cape.

Amid concern from MPs about six suspended magistrates sitting at home while earning a combined R31 million, the DA also had misgivings about a magistrate who remains working: Magistrate Ezra Morrison.

Police are investigating a murder case after a scholar transport driver was shot dead in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, on Thursday morning.

An investigation by the North-West University into allegations that a sangoma was brought in to perform rituals at a female residence has found no evidence to support the claim.

A well-known motorsport executive charged with the rape and sexual grooming of two sisters under the age of six was granted R20 000 bail in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday.

Cloudy weather with isolated showers and thundershowers is expected across much of South Africa. Some areas will also experience morning fog, according to the South African Weather Service.

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A 54-year-old man was arrested on Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of Sisonke Mbolekwa at the Walter Sisulu University's Mthatha campus earlier this week.

Five men who terrorised residents at the Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal will be sentenced next month for the mass murder of nine people who refused to give into their threats of giving up their beds or facing death.

After a trial-within-a-trial that lasted more than two weeks, Judge Nathan Erasmus ruled on Thursday afternoon that statements implicating two accused, Jacquen "Boeta" Appolis and Steveno Van Rhyn, in the kidnapping and trafficking of Joshlin Smith, could be admitted as evidence.

The MK Party won its first metro council seat in the country after beating the DA by just 22 votes in the eThekwini by-elections on Wednesday.

A Western Cape High Court judge has granted an urgent interim interdict preventing further development of a luxury residential estate on the scenic Botmaskop mountain slopes above Helshoogte at Stellenbosch.