Johannesburg motorists can expect major road closures on Sunday as the G20 Summit enters its final day and global leaders begin leaving the country.

Is there anything better than hitting the long road and stopping at your favourite placed for that road trip pie? But which beloved pastry rules the roost? Riaan Manser gives his take on five of the best in this week’s Pick of the Pies. Who’s your winner?

One of the two men allegedly shot by popular Limpopo musician Lehlogonolo Katlego “Shebeshxt” Chauke in October sustained a bullet wound to the jaw, the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court heard.

The South African Human Rights Commission has found that municipal service delivery in North West has deteriorated to the point of systemic collapse, with 14 municipalities out of 19 – and the provincial government – implicated in widespread violations of residents’ basic rights.

A high-speed chase and shootout in Mitchells Plain on Wednesday morning left one suspect dead and four others arrested after police intercepted an armed group travelling in a Toyota Hilux.

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The body of an 11-year-old child has been found “in a pool of blood” in his home in Limpopo.

The collapse of the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant project should have been the end of CMS Water Engineering. But it was not. While the company was collapsing, Rudolf Schoeman Jnr was extracting one last contract from government: a R368-million deal to maintain “the most important bulk water supply system in the country”.

South Africa has the world’s largest population of people living with HIV, which both heightens the risk of anal cancers and their severity. However, neither the collection of data nor the efforts for prevention and screening are in line with the likely impact.

Firefighters have successfully contained blazes in the Cape Winelands’ Montagu and Ashton areas after more than a week of intensive operations. One active line remains in De Doorns where suppression continues.

A devastating collision between an Interstate bus and a truck on the N8 highway near Bloemfontein has claimed 10 lives, with dozens more suffering injuries, during wet weather conditions on Saturday morning.

A years-old video from Mpumalanga’s notorious coffin-assault case is circulating again on Facebook and X, this time misrepresented as footage from Sudan’s ongoing conflict.

KwaZulu-Natal authorities and disaster management teams are on high alert after the SA Weather Service (SAWS) issued a severe weather warning for the province and other provinces.

A woman was killed when the bus she was travelling in was shot at on the R61 between Ngcobo and Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday afternoon.

Riaan Manser recalls the day he and his then-girlfriend were rowing from Africa to New York in a row boat, and an attempt to capture a picture of their boat during an ocean swim almost resulted in Riaan’s untimely demise.

A security officer was shot dead in a bakkie on the N1 highway in Gauteng on Monday.

Potchefstroom police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder after two brothers were shot during a meeting at their business premises on Luitingh Street on Monday.

CMS Water Engineering was supposed to secure equipment to fix the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant, which would help bring an end to a decade-long human rights disaster for the residents of Hammanskraal. Instead, records show it blew millions on gold and a scheme to export lamb from Kenya to Kuwait.

“Please respect South African laws,” reads an X post published on 28 October, 2025.The post features a photo of a barefoot woman who appears to be raising her arm to strike an officer in uniform.

Eight people have died and two have been left in a critical condition after a collision on the N2 highway, near Scottburgh in KwaZulu-Natal.

A teenager was the only survivor of a blaze, which killed five family members in the Steve Biko Informal Settlement in Etwatwa, Gauteng.