When Crime Intelligence head Major-General Feroz Khan launched an ex parte application seeking a ‘super injunction’ to place court proceedings in camera, he did not count on the Madlanga Commission’s swift legal pushback.

This series on the gardens has had, within 48 hours, nearly 80,000 readers, and provoked an unprecedented number of written comments. It’s an indication of both deep love and concern for Kirstenbosch and the way ahead.In researching these stories, we received many suggestions about what a range of people – specialists to tourists – think should be done to make Kirstenbosch better. We...

Amnesty International has accused Israel of pursuing a state-led campaign of annexation and ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, warning that the forced displacement of Palestinian communities has intensified sharply since 2023. The organisation’s latest report argues that international inaction is enabling violations of international law and calls for urgent measures to halt further...

The DA’s Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, Khathu Rasilingwane, has pledged to root out corruption, improve service delivery and restore accountability as the party intensifies its campaign to secure outright control of the metro in November’s local government elections.

SAPS says it’s too early to link the mass shooting in Cleveland, Johannesburg, to illegal mining, but community leaders and political parties say syndicates refining illicit gold in the area are a primary driver of local bloodshed.

In a pivotal court case, the UCT Children’s Institute challenges Home Affairs over delays in late birth registrations, asserting that undocumented children face severe rights violations.

Commissioners and evidence leaders at the Madlanga Commission challenged Witness I’s claim that he went to the scene of a R286m cocaine bust because it related to a previous investigation. They questioned whether he was there to legitimise an attempt by law enforcement officials to steal the drugs.

Two Mexican sports journalists who were arrested in Gauteng, allegedly because they flew a drone over a Jewish college, have pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and returned home. They say they were considered terrorists and kept behind bars for a week.

The Nigerian foreign minister has said that her country might take action against SA for alleged attacks on Nigerians, but what that retaliation might be is as yet unclear.

South Africa launched the most promising new HIV prevention tool in years. Spotlight asks whether we can successfully deliver lenacapavir without the trusted pathways decimated by cuts to aid from the US.

Here are the Lotto, Lotto Plus and Lotto Max results for Wednesday, 10 June.

Grouped against tournament cohost Mexico, as well as Czechia and South Korea, South Africa is eyeing a positive result in its opening Fifa World Cup match, its first since 2010.

Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Police is now considering its next steps after what was described as an unsatisfactory briefing on the handling of the Phala Phala theft six years ago, with MPs continuing to raise concerns over how the investigation was conducted and the unanswered questions that remain.

South Africans are not only dying. They are surviving cancer, strokes, disability, mental health conditions and long-term impairment, and the financial cost of living through these events is becoming harder for households to absorb.

On Friday, the eccentric and controversial South African-born businessman Elon Musk will probably become the world’s first trillionaire when the initial public offering of his company SpaceX blasts off.