Nedbank has slammed an urgent bid by Dr Iqbal Survé’s Sekunjalo Group to force it to reopen its closed accounts as “an abuse of process” – and urged the Competition Tribunal to dismiss it with a punitive costs order.

A heated argument between a woman and her former boyfriend resulted in her brutal murder in her family home in Flux Street, Montagu, the Western Cape, at the weekend.

About 800 children in conflict with the law in the Western Cape are filling up the provincial Department of Social Development’s youth and childcare centres, with the department saying the numbers were increasing.

Matric results are set to be published in newspapers when they are released next month after the Department of Basic Education lodged an application to set aside the enforcement notice issued by the Information Regulator (IR).

The North West department of education’s decision to award a multibillion-rand security tender to four companies in the province has opened a can of worms, with 21 other companies challenging the validity of the award in court.

As the Tuesday deadline for registration of spaza shops looms, some foreign shop owners of these contentious establishments have decided to abandon the process, citing that it is lengthy and will require at least six months to complete.

Another massive drug bust at OR Tambo International Airport, in Johannesburg, has seen police seize a multimillion-rand crystal meth shipment destined for abroad.

The Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health (CRH), set up by Stellenbosch University is hosting its annual community partnership event – and students are showcasing the healthcare projects on which they’ve been working.

Child protection activists have expressed frustration at the sentence handed to former teacher and Media24 executive Willem Breytenbach, saying it fails to reflect the severity of the crimes he was convicted of.

It’s already been a very busy start to the festive period for the Western Cape Health Department, as more than 20 000 emergency calls were received from various parts of the province.

The businessman was abducted while conducting a site inspection at his construction business in Wilsonia on Monday afternoon.

EFF Gauteng chairperson, Nkululeko Dunga, has called out “disloyal” leaders in the party.

The KwaZulu-Natal government is paying officials around R600 million a year just for data and airtime costs, and now the province is probing whether some of the payments incurred may have been to ghost workers, deceased or former staff.

Seven illegal miners have resurfaced at various shafts at the Stilfontein mine in the North West, with some being found in possession of gold-bearing material.

As the deadline looms for spaza shops and food-handling facilities to register their businesses for a traders’ permit, the City of Cape Town says the processing of all the applications will not be possible without additional resources.

Two Grade 10 pupils from the Mphaphuli High School and Thohoyandou Technical High School in the Vhembe East District, are believed to have taken their own lives after failing their exams.

“Finally, we’re going home. Hallelujah, festive is here!” chanted an excited minibus passenger, one of hundreds using the transport services leaving the Western Cape for the Eastern Cape.

White pupils are more unlikely to study history in the senior grades compared to their black African counterparts.

SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila accused the MKP and DA of launching “counterrevolutionary offensives” against the ANC, contributing to its electoral setbacks, and came out in support of ANC Gauteng chairperson Panyaza Lesufi.

Extremely hot and uncomfortable conditions are expected over parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo, according to the South African Weather Service.

The Western Cape police arrested six men in two separate robbery incidents in Elsies River and Belhar on Wednesday.