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News24 | Human settlements minister orders Cape Town to halt prime land sale, pending housing probe

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 1:29pm
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.

News24 | Human settlements minister orders Cape Town to halt prime land sale, pending housing probe

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 1:29pm
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.

News24 | Mike Shingange elected as Cosatu president, Zingiswa Losi now general secretary

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 1:12pm
Mike Shingange is the new president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and Zingiswa Losi is the federation’s new general secretary.

News24 | Mike Shingange elected as Cosatu president, Zingiswa Losi now general secretary

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 1:12pm
Mike Shingange is the new president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, and Zingiswa Losi is the federation’s new general secretary.

News24 | Prince William stops traffic outside Buckingham Palace for a game of cricket

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:50pm
Britain’s Prince William turned one of London’s most famous thoroughfares, The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace, into a temporary cricket pitch on Tuesday, where he was joined by some of the game’s biggest names to promote his Earthshot climate prize.

News24 | Prince William stops traffic outside Buckingham Palace for a game of cricket

News24 World - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:50pm
Britain’s Prince William turned one of London’s most famous thoroughfares, The Mall leading to Buckingham Palace, into a temporary cricket pitch on Tuesday, where he was joined by some of the game’s biggest names to promote his Earthshot climate prize.

News24 | Van Gogh masterpiece shown to public for first time in 60 years ahead of auction

News24 World - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:50pm
A Vincent van Gogh painting unseen by the public for over 60 years went on display in Hong Kong ahead of its 18 November auction in New York.

News24 | Kia leapfrogs Nissan and Renault in latest used-car figures

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:50pm
Kia emerged as September’s biggest climber among South Africa’s top 10 used-car brands, overtaking Nissan and Renault in the process, through Autotrader sales.

News24 | Billionaire Sacco family locks horns with Motsepe’s ARM

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:31pm
African Rainbow Minerals has locked horns with Assore over the management of their jointly owned Assmang operations in the Northern Cape.

News24 | Sassa pensioner builds her own house faster than the government

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:26pm
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.

News24 | Sassa pensioner builds her own house faster than the government

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 12:26pm
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.

News24 | ANALYSIS | Fuel shock: SA’s road reliance meets the Strait of Hormuz

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:46am
A resilient rand could not stop a R3.33 petrol hike driven by soaring Brent crude and Strait of Hormuz tensions. The crisis reveals how SA’s road-reliant economy remains dangerously exposed to global oil shocks even with load shedding behind us, write Tankiso Moloi and Bhaso Ndzendze.

News24 | ANALYSIS | Behind every Uber ride and Mr D order is a worker asking, what if I can’t work?

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:46am
Recognising the importance of platform opportunities in a low-job-growth economy does not mean overlooking the conditions under which that work takes place, write Oliver Meth, Lauren Graham and Khuliso Matidza.

News24 | ‘She came home shouting she’d been shot’: 11-year-old caught in Katlehong shooting

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:43am
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.

News24 | ‘She came home shouting she’d been shot’: 11-year-old caught in Katlehong shooting

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:43am
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.

News24 | David Kramer heartbroken after his wife, Renaye, dies unexpectedly

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:27am
South African musician and theatremaker David Kramer announced on Wednesday that his wife, Renaye Kramer, had died.

News24 | David Kramer heartbroken after his wife, Renaye, dies unexpectedly

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:27am
South African musician and theatremaker David Kramer announced on Wednesday that his wife, Renaye Kramer, had died.

News24 | Teen who allegedly stabbed girl, 6, previously flagged as a ‘violence risk’

News24 South Africa - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:00am
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.

News24 | Teen who allegedly stabbed girl, 6, previously flagged as a ‘violence risk’

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 11:00am
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.

News24 | Stormers skipper pleads for high standards on defence as EPCR tweaks bonus-point rule

News24 Top Stories - Wed, 14/10/2026 - 10:54am
Conceding a “consolation try” could be an expensive mishap for teams in this season’s Champions Cup tournament.
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