News24 South Africa

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.

A 15-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed a six-year-old girl at a school in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday most likely still has the same thoughts and fixations that drove him to allegedly place a bomb at Ballito Junction mall in March, says the former head of the SAPS Investigative Psychology Unit.

Two victims at the heart of the case against Shadrack Sibiya have told the court they are living in terror – one is suicidal, the other is a 16-year-old under witness protection, who says she will blame herself if her family is harmed.

The South African documentary The Philipstown WireCar Grand Prix has been nominated for an International Emmy Award.

The death toll in the Katlehong shooting has risen to four after two more victims died in hospital, Gauteng police said on Wednesday.

A gunman opened fire on a group of mourners returning from a memorial service in Katlehong, killing two ANC Youth League members and injuring five others, including an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old.

Tourvest and Famous Brands secured all four new 15-year concessions with safari-style brands, beating bids from familiar names including Spur, Ou Meul and Vovo Telo.

Born from staggered lockdown runs, Vannie Hanover Park grew into a 100-member movement. In 2026, it became Hanover Park’s first Western Province Athletics-registered running club – running not from gunfire, but toward possibility.

A decision by Parliament’s ethics committee to “close the files” on complaints laid by #UniteBehind against former Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula and chair of the transport Portfolio Committee, Dikeledi Magadzi, has been reviewed and set aside.

In a proportional representation system, people vote for a party, not a candidate, said Judge Lebogang Modiba when she heard the DA’s application against the MK Party, EFF, ActionSA and the GOOD party in the Electoral Court on Tuesday.

Despite promising he would challenge Judge Nkosinathi Chili’s ruling that compels him to face trial for arms deal corruption next year, Jacob Zuma hasn’t done so – and he has dropped all his other prosecution-related appeals.

A criminal case has been registered against ticket supplier Adriaan Pieterse over alleged losses exceeding R22 million. But his lawyer denies wrongdoing and says a reconciliation shows that money is owed to Pieterse – and not to his accusers.

The earth beneath Welkom in Matjhabeng has yielded immense global wealth through gold and uranium mining, but the surface is defined by piles of uncollected refuse and raw sewage flowing in the streets.