3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (559+ words) What was intended to be a peaceful March and March demonstration on Che Guevara Road in Durban on Thursday descended into chaos after refugees were pelted with rocks and other objects. The protest, organised by the anti-illegal immigration group March…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (497+ words) MBOMBELA — Employers across Mpumalanga are facing intensified workplace inspections this week as the Department of Employment and Labour checks whether businesses are complying with rules governing wages, working hours, employment contracts and workplace safety. The province wide blitz is running…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (455+ words) VANDERBIJLPARK — An investigation that began with the murder of an Emfuleni municipal employee has widened into an alleged R16 million procurement scandal, with businessman Mpho Edward Malema now behind bars and prosecutors saying further arrests cannot be ruled out. He was…...

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, 5+ hour ago   (420+ words) JOHANNESBURG – Nine Mangaung municipal contracts ranging from police vehicles and a fire truck to corporate gifts and catering are heading under the microscope, while investigators have also been authorised to examine a Gauteng Health tender for voluntary medical male circumcision…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago   (298+ words) CAPE TOWN – President Cyril Ramaphosa returns to the National Assembly on Tuesday for questions from MPs at a time when Parliament is dealing with municipal failures, South Africa’s international standing and the continuing fallout from allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police…...

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   (320+ words) JOHANNESBURG — President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared a Special Provincial Official Funeral Category 2 for the late former Gauteng MEC, Mzikayifane Elias Khumalo. The decision follows a formal request by Premier Panyaza Lesufi to honour Khumalo for his extensive service to the…...