Court showdown looms in the potential liquidation of KwaZulu-Natal’s rural anchor company Tongaat-Hulett.

Minister of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Maropene Ramokgopa has also been accused of giving luxury donated Chinese SUVs to her family and loved ones without disclosing this.

SA has finally selected an ambassador to the US, but is working on the formalities.

South African couple Melany and Peet Viljoen were arrested in America about a month ago for alleged shoplifting. They have now both pleaded not guilty, but remain in US immigration enforcement detention while the case against them unfolds.

SA’s Cardinal Brislin slams the US president’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV, insisting the papacy is not political theatre.

The army and police entered Lavender Hill and Steenberg on the Cape Flats on Friday, searching suspected drug houses. While children were excited, some, including Members of Parliament, expressed scepticism that the more than R800m Operation Prosper would have a sustained impact on crime.

University of Fort Hare Vice-Chancellor Professor Sakhela Buhlungu has been suspended as the SIU investigates serious corruption and maladministration claims at the university spanning two decades.

Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg is a surgical lifeline for 4.5 million people across western KwaZulu-Natal. For years, its ageing air conditioning system has been breaking down, forcing surgery cancellations and endangering patients. The department knew. It had a plan. The plan failed. Now it has another plan.

This is the second article examining the environmental cost of modern warfare. The first article in the series explored war as a powerful, compressed engine of pollution. Here we ask a harder question: when environmental destruction is not incidental, but deliberate, should it be declared a crime against the Earth?

Rarely seen, endangered fire-dependent species of flowers are blooming in the Western Cape’s Overberg region in the wake of wildfires, and botanists and citizen scientists are taking advantage.

An unexpected result of the attacks on Iran is that the long-awaited discussion about how fuel is priced in South Africa has begun.

April 13 (Reuters) – The use of Tylenol by women during pregnancy was not associated with autism in their children, according to results of a nationwide study in Denmark published on Monday.

Civilisation has been trading via algorithms since the turn of the millennium, but humans wanting to drive societies back into the Stone Age remains the biggest market force.

After nearly a decade of painful delays and institutional resistance, the National Prosecuting Authority has decided to prosecute those implicated in the deaths of at least 141 mental healthcare users. For the families and activists who refused to give up, it marks the beginning of the final chapter in the fight for justice.

LOS ANGELES, April 13 (Reuters) – Britney Spears voluntarily checked into rehab on Sunday following her March arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, a representative for Spears confirmed to Reuters on Monday.

A strike, overcrowding and a damning Public Protector report have exposed deep stress in Nelson Mandela Bay’s health system, with authorities under pressure to fix longstanding capacity gaps at Dora Nginza Hospital.

US President Donald Trump’s attack on Pope Leo was “unacceptable,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday, joining politicians of all colours in springing to the pontiff’s defence.

Botswana’s president has clinched multiple ‌agreements with Oman, including on mineral exploration, oil ⁠storage infrastructure and renewable power, during a visit to the Gulf nation ⁠designed to strengthen economic ties, the presidency said on Monday.