The Land Reform and Rural Development committee wants to meet with AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini but according to a long-held, unspoken traditional practice, it’s unprecedented for a Zulu king to account to Parliament.

A campus crisis is looming after a record 337 158 matrics achieved admission to Bachelor studies with only 202 000 first-year places available across all 26 public universities.

Milites Dei Security Services – the company operating the suspected military training camp in Mpumalanga where 95 Libyan nationals were arrested last year – wants its registration with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority reinstated.

The 39-year-old, an office manager at the Eastern Cape Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in the Chris Hani district, is alleged to have misused the department’s fuel card between April 2022 and August 2022.

Two of the five accused in the murders of South African rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend, chef and entrepreneur, Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, have had their third bid to be released on bail refused by the Durban High Court.

A leaked internal intelligence report from the City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Information Management Services shows that officials foresaw the deadly shooting at Nyanga taxi rank days before it occurred.

Hundreds of school children received haircuts and hairdos for free in various areas across the Western Cape this week as professional hairstylists and barbers made their day in preparation for the start of the school year.

Ahead of the start of the 2025 academic year, the KwaZulu-Natal transport department and a team of examiners stopped 47 unroadworthy school buses from hitting the road after inspecting 245 minibuses, taxis and buses for roadworthiness and compliance.

While most education experts have welcomed the matric pass rate, which increased by 4.4% from 82.9% in 2023 to 87.3% in 2024, some have expressed mixed reactions.

Dubbed Cape Town’s “most improved school” last year, a Khayelitsha high school has continued its trajectory and dramatically improved its results, achieving a 99.3% pass rate in the 2024 matric exams.

About 1.2 million children will start their primary and high school years as grade 1 and 8 pupils when schools reopen on Wednesday – many of them in overcrowded classrooms, flood-damaged buildings, and dodging bullets in their bid for education.

A majority of South Africans believe Donald Trump will be good for Americans, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.

City Power is confronting a surge in theft and vandalism that has plunged several suburbs into darkness over the festive season and into the new year.

Severe thunderstorms and extreme fire risks are set to grip parts of South Africa on Wednesday, as the South African Weather Service issues multiple warnings for disruptive weather.

Having only started studying physical science in Grade 11, Kgolagano Baloyi would have been forgiven if he struggled with the challenging subject.

The judge’s secretary who has accused Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge of making unwanted sexual advances on her says she had found his requests for pictures “annoying” – but soon felt he was trying to force her to send them.

Medical aid provider Samwumed’s split with the Melomed hospital group has forced some Capetonians to travel up to 20km for healthcare, sparking frustration among its members.

ActionSA demands that the Independent Police Investigative Directorate investigate the police’s Crime Intelligence division’s purchase of a luxury hotel in Pretoria.

The South African Human Rights Commission received more than 300 racism-related complaints in just one year. It recorded 297 racism-related complaints in 2013/14.

The body of a teenage girl has been found in a shallow grave in Matlhako 2 Village in Potchefstroom in the North West.

An internal discord between influential business figures has spiralled into chaos, culminating in three people, including a child, being kidnapped.