5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (347+ words) JOHANNESBURG — South Africans could face another punishing fuel increase in October, with early data pointing to petrol approaching R29 a litre and some diesel prices moving beyond R32 if current international fuel market conditions persist. Early Central Energy Fund data shows an…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (582+ words) PRETORIA — South Africans who still need an identity document have less than two months to get their affairs in order before the local government elections, with Home Affairs warning voters not to leave applications, replacements or collections until the last…...

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (574+ words) JOHANNESBURG – Grammy-winning South African DJ Black Coffee has won a R7 million High Court judgment against Maserati South Africa following a dispute over a heavily customised supercar that he ordered but ultimately never received. The Johannesburg High Court ordered Maserati to…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (411+ words) EASTERN CAPE – Four suspects are now in custody in connection with the killing of celebrated South African boxer Zolani Tete, as police move the investigation into the courts just days after he was fatally shot in Mdantsane. The South African…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (410+ words) LIMPOPO – A Limpopo entrepreneur is working to turn one of the province’s readily available agricultural resources into an unlikely beauty product, developing plant-based hairpieces from banana pseudostem fibre as a potential alternative to conventional synthetic hair. Lufuno Nemakonde, Managing Director…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (632+ words) JOHANNESBURG – The ANC has made an unusually direct admission heading into the 4 November local government elections: it has failed in areas where it governed, made mistakes and struggled to implement some of the very policies it now wants voters to…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (428+ words) JOHANNESBURG – Johannesburg has settled more than R5.25 billion owed to Eskom, bringing an end to a long-running electricity billing dispute that had raised concerns about the financial relationship between the country’s biggest city and its national power utility and, at one…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (294+ words) TSHWANE — South Africa has officially launched a dedicated UN-Habitat Country Office to accelerate the development of sustainable and inclusive human settlements. Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane and UN-Habitat Executive Director Anacláudia Rossbach inaugurated the office in Tshwane on Friday. The…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (260+ words) De Bruyn, who was only 18 when she led 20,000 women against the apartheid pass laws, returned to the same steps to condemn the rise of gender-based violence, corruption, and systemic inequality. She noted that while the marchers of 1956 fought to end…...