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The uMkhonto weSizwe Party has cancelled its final rally ahead of the 2026 local government elections and announced an investigation into discrepancies in the Independent Electoral Commission’s final councillor candidate list.

Self-proclaimed “blesser” Serge Cabonge has claimed, on a recording played in Shadrack Sibiya’s bail proceedings on Tuesday, that the former top cop, whom he describes as “a killer”, sent hitmen to assassinate actress Tebogo Thobejane.

Lawyers for the EFF have argued that there was no “rational decision” for the parliamentary impeachment committee to rescind its recommendation of advocate Thandazani Griffiths Madonsela SC as evidence leader.

After five days of desperate searching, 14-year-old Allegra Styles of Gqeberha has been found safe and unharmed.

The Gauteng Department of e-Government waited two weeks before reporting security flaws to the Information Regulator.

More than 30 police officers forced entry into a Cape Town man’s home without a warrant, searching for the kidnapped daughter of a “prominent businessman”. They did not find her, and instead left behind a trail of destruction.

A dodgy R1.6 billion coal tender is the reason for the Department of Correctional Services’ disclaimed audit opinion.

The DA claims that 388 new jobs for general workers at the Emfuleni Local Municipality in the Vaal were filled after 16 000 people applied but that no interviews were held for the positions.

The sentencing proceedings of Aberdeen farmer Louis Lategan have been postponed for a third time in the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda, this time to allow his newly appointed legal counsel time to obtain a forensic psychologist’s report.

Brian Smith, the Crusaders Motorcycle Club member accused of killing a MAC’s Motorcycle Club biker at a Pretoria East bar, allegedly has a string of police cases opened against his name, from pointing a firearm to assault and attempted murder.

Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie has rejected false social media claims that he has rescinded the gazetted renaming of Graaff-Reinet to Robert Sobukwe Town.

The Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority’s embattled CEO, Gugu Mkhize, has been summarily dismissed after she was found to have acted fraudulently and dishonestly, illegally inflating her remuneration package by more than R265 000 annually.

Weeks after a key witness to boxer Zolani Tete’s murder received death threats, witnesses in the case are now undergoing trauma counselling, the Mdantsane Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday.

Three of Knysna’s senior municipal figures have been granted bail after a corruption investigation uncovered allegations of cash payments, demands for hundreds of thousands of rands, and the alleged use of third-party bank accounts in dealings linked to a municipal security contract.

The collapse and prolonged closure of a key North Coast inland road is piling costs onto farmers, businesses and motorists, with residents’ organisations accusing KwaZulu-Natal authorities of ignoring warnings about the P104 for almost three years before it finally failed.

The threat of legal action derailed an attempt to remove the mayor of Theewaterskloof, in the latest contestation in the embattled Western Cape municipality.

A witness has told the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban how Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane crawled wounded from the spot where rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes lay bleeding after gunfire erupted on Durban’s Florida Road in February 2023, recounting the chaos that left both friends dead outside a restaurant nearby.

Seafarers from South Africa and abroad have rallied together to raise more than R50 000 for the families of five mariners who died at sea off Mossel Bay last month.

The Western Cape will introduce arithmetic lessons in isiXhosa to thousands of Grade 1 pupils from next year. Nearly 3 500 Grade 1 and Grade 2 teachers were trained in September and October to teach numeracy in children’s home languages.

Self-proclaimed “blesser” Serge Cabonge implicated Sergeant Fannie Nkosi as the real middleman between Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala and former deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya.