High Court secretary Andiswa Mengo has testified that Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge called her into his chambers and, while trying to unzip his pants, asked her “if I didn’t want to suck it”.

Parents will have to dig deeper into their pockets to finance their children’s university studies this year after institutions hiked tuition fees by between 4.5% and 7% and residence fees by 4.5% and 8%.

Ncediswa Jaji’s daughter could not write her name while doing Grade 3 at Chintsa East Primary School in the Eastern Cape.

Methanol poisoning was behind the Boxing Day deaths of South African-born Arno Els and his British fiancée, Greta Otteson, at a tourist villa in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Five suspects accused of murdering Lieutenant-Colonel Piet Pretorius, 59, made their second, albeit brief, appearance in court on Monday.

The PA’s deputy president, Kenny Kunene, has denied defaming EFF leader Julius Malema by accusing him of working for confessed tobacco smuggler Adriano Mazzotti and receiving drugs from “the Nigerians” – saying any remarks he might have made were “fair comment”.

A 39-year-old suspected serial rapist is expected to appear in the Emalahleni Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga after he was arrested in Vosman on Friday in connection with a string of rape and kidnapping incidents that occurred in 2023 and last year.

A 4-month-old baby is among five people who have been killed in a head-on collision on the N2 highway, between Nananga and Makhanda, in the Eastern Cape.

Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, during her term as a municipal manager in Limpopo, appointed a company that the High Court found did not submit a tender for an accounting contract.