Luyanda Mboniswa, who was released on parole in 2023 for murdering Marike de Klerk, the ex-wife of former apartheid president FW de Klerk, has confessed to the murder and expressed remorse.

Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela admits that NSFAS faces challenges after its board chairperson, Dr Karen Stander, resigned with immediate effect over the weekend after citing a ‘toxic’ work environment marked by racism, bullying, intimidation and personal threats at the entity.

The Democratic Alliance will push for South Africa’s foreign policy to be ‘genuinely non-aligned’ and not ‘ideological’, says the party’s leader.

A senior leader and two ward councillors from the Western Cape ANC have defected and joined the DA, as the party seeks to reinforce its claim as the most credible party ahead of the 2026 elections.

Treasury Director-General Duncan Pieterse has proposed alternatives to fight child malnutrition — one being an audit of social grants to stamp out fraud.

Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia says the disbandment of corruption-busting unit the Scorpions was a blunder, and that the problems South Africa now faces prove it. He also detailed the crimefighting methods he believes the country needs.

More than 600 quintile 5 public schools in Gauteng stand to be affected by a severe reduction in subsidies for learners, which kicks in next year.

KwaZulu-Natal police have launched a manhunt for 13 undocumented foreign nationals who escaped from the Nyoni police station on Tuesday afternoon.

There is a plethora of international economic bodies and coordinating mechanisms in our contemporary world — but getting them to work in harmony is a huge challenge.

Amid global upheaval, marked by Gen Z-led protests and aid cuts, the South-South Social Movements Convergence in Cape Town gathered activists and youth leaders to plot a course for democracy and against authoritarianism.

Mining is the ‘keystone industry’. Without it, the global economy will collapse like an arch without its keystone. Its fingerprints are also all over human-made climate change. But here’s the rub: the green energy transition and civilisation as we know it are not possible without mining and a lot more is now needed. It has become the planet’s unlikely saviour.

From Delhi to Addis Ababa, digital farming systems are taking root. Can South Africa build the public digital infrastructure to keep its farmers, and its food supply, alive?

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