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The families of six dead Soshanguve community patrollers – who were shot, stoned and set alight – say they are living in fear of the attackers.

HCI subsidiary Wina Njalo brought an urgent court application after Minister Parks Tau postponed the deadline for the new operator.

He shouted “Pemmy must go!” But now MK Party MP Visvin Reddy must go to Parliament’s powers and privileges committee, which has the power to sanction MPs for their conduct.

Barloworld on Tuesday flagged even more pressure on local sales for the first five months of its 2025 year, with pressure on local equipment sales intensifying amid tepid mining activity and a slump in earnings for its sanction-hit Russian business.

A 38-year-old woman has been arrested in Durban in connection with an ongoing human trafficking case currently before the Cape Town courts.

Brazil’s Supreme Court will weigh whether to put far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro on trial for allegedly masterminding an attempted coup after losing elections in 2022.

Israel’s military said it had killed a journalist working for Al Jazeera in Gaza a day earlier, alleging that he was a “sniper terrorist” for Hamas.

The South Sudan opposition said one of its army bases near the capital Juba was bombarded as the US warned it was “deeply concerned” by escalating violence between the rival factions.

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe has been tasked with fostering peace in the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

AfriForum CEO Kallie Kriel has criticised the judges who ruled that EFF president Julius Malema’s “Kill the Boer” chant did not constitute hate speech, and has accused them of adopting a “radical ideological interpretation” of the Constitution.

News24 Sport’s Herman Mostert recaps Round 13 of the United Rugby Championship.

Elias Mokwana has been using football to dismantle obstacles standing in the way of him being able to take care of his family, ever since the doors of higher education were shut firmly on his face.

While the results of the latest round of the URC didn’t exactly set South African playoff pulses racing, there were important strides made with the bigger Bok picture in mind, writes Lungani Zama.

Oscar Piastri led a McLaren one-two from Lando Norris in the Chinese Grand Prix after an action-packed weekend where Lewis Hamilton won the first sprint of the season and then had a shock disqualification,

[Liberian Investigator] Voinjama — Lofa County Senator Hon. Momo Tarnuekollie Cyrus on Saturday, March 22, 2025, made a series of impactful development interventions aimed at uplifting the people of Foya Tengia District, with a special focus on youth and women empowerment.

[Nyasa Times] Private schools in Malawi are quietly slipping into crisis, yet their struggle remains largely unheard and unaddressed. These institutions, which have long been pillars of quality education, are now battling to stay afloat in the face of crippling economic challenges. The weight of rising costs, coupled with the loss of financial support from a large portion of their student base,...

[Daily Trust] Rinsola Abiola, daughter of the late MKO Abiola, says President Bola Tinubu remains committed to unlocking the greatness within every young Nigerian by removing barriers to higher education.

[The Herald] The Herentals Group of Schools continues to lead in grassroots sports development, bringing together 41 primary school centres from across Zimbabwe for a national athletics and soccer gala held at the National Sports Stadium’s B Arena.

World Liberty Financial, the crypto business created by President Trump and his sons, unveiled a cryptocurrency called a stablecoin, furthering his ties to an industry his administration regulates.

Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of artificial intelligence chips, brought the robots together as part of its annual developer conference.

Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.

President Donald Trump’s administration advanced another major US natural gas export project, handing oil companies a win the same day as a White House meeting with industry executives.

Six bird species on Marion Island, about 2000km southeast of Cape Town, have been infected by a deadly bird flu known as H5N1.

Earlier this week, researchers tackled the spread of an invasive alien in the Crocodile River – an aquatic plant known as the water spangle – by introducing a weevil species that feeds on it.

Scientists have discovered leg bones belonging to an ancient human ancestor at the Swartkrans Cave, located halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria.