For Gqeberha resident Robin Isaacs, more than just water came crashing down during damaging floods in Nelson Mandela Bay over the past 24 hours. Her life is in shambles, too, after the floods destroyed most of her home and belongings.

The days when men were given senior positions are over, the ANC Women’s League said as it put its foot down and vowed that “we are going to show you”.

Nearly a year has passed since heavy rain and flooding devastated the Western Cape, but the R41 million the national government allocated to the Theewaterskloof municipality in Caledon for 24 disaster projects, remains unaccounted for.

After more than two years since former Heathfield High School principal Wesley Neumann had been dismissed and embroiled in litigation with the Western Cape Education Department (WCED), he has taken up a new role as a PR councillor.

Musthtaq “Mr B” Bhaktar, owner of the famous Avenue Cafe in Newlands, passed away suddenly at 72.

The Retreat Indoor Swimming Pool has reopened after three months of renovations, just in time for the summer season.

A new park in Ward 67 has fallen victim to vandalism, causing frustration among residents and city officials.

Johannesburg city manager Floyd Brink is again in danger of being arrested after the City failed to comply with a court order interdicting it from disconnecting utilities to a business in the city.

Gilead Sciences, the maker of a twice-a-year anti-HIV injection, has approached South Africa’s medicine regulator to discuss how to get the shot registered locally as fast as possible in the country. Sahpra will have to work with the European Medicines Agency on this, as it’s severely understaffed and unable to review medicines speedily.

The council of the University of Cape Town will be opposing a Western Cape High Court application brought by a senior academic who is challenging a resolution it passed in June on the armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in Gaza.

The case against four men accused of extorting R60 000 at a construction site in Durban has been postponed again because the magistrate was not available.

The national Department of Health has signalled it wants to see more family physicians appointed as clinical managers tasked with leading multi-disciplinary district hospital teams.

Three men were killed and a 14-year-old boy was wounded when gunmen opened fire on people sitting in a yard in Seine Street, Eindhoven, Delft, before they “fled the scene empty-handed”.

It is all systems go for thousands of matric pupils who will sit down to write their first English and Afrikaans home languages and first and second additional language papers on Monday.

Johannesburg Water – the company responsible for supplying South Africa’s economic heartland with potable water – is in a tailspin, financially unsustainable and is increasingly delivering substandard services, all thanks to political interference.

“I never got to wish my beautiful baby for his 19th birthday, his last year as a teenager.” These were the words of the heartbroken mother of a murdered first-year Bachelor of Science student at Stellenbosch University after her son was found stabbed to death last Wednesday.

Heideveld Secondary School is seeking donations to provide breakfast for 210 matric learners during their final exams.

Lawyers representing a Palm Ridge woman, who was jailed for killing her abusive partner and plans to lodge a historic constitutional challenge to the country’s sentencing laws, say her case is not unique.

The City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee member for Urban Waste Management, Grant Twigg, may face consequences for his role in a failed waste management project.

A permanent security detail, friends no longer coming over for braais, and strategic seating at restaurants are some of the life changes KwaZulu-Natal Public Works MEC Martin Meyer has had to make after speaking out against extortionists and construction mafias.

The Durban High Court has found that the five-year prison sentence the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court handed down to an 18-year-old convicted of stabbing and killing a fellow pupil was appropriate.