The Special Investigating Unit smells something rotten in Red Roses as the net closes on Robert Gumede’s involvement in alleged Covid-19 tender scandal.

It’s Good News Day on News24 and we have 10 brilliant stories to give you this April Feels Day. From a local success story of a SA mom who created the Oryx salt brand, to a soccer coach who raised money to take 50 Cape Flats kids to see Bafana Bafana for the first time, these 10 stories will give you the April Feels, all free to read.

The Khampepe Commission has heard how ANC leaders from exile brought a culture of suspicion and hierarchy to South Africa’s democratic governance, complicating the pursuit of justice.

Nelson Mandela Bay officials flew to Cape Town for a parliamentary meeting that had already been postponed, handing taxpayers an R88,000 bill for nothing – and the mayor thinks no apology is necessary.

Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Babalwa Lobishe has survived two no-confidence motions after councillors voted them down. The ANC’s Provincial Integrity Commission also cleared her over last year’s controversial R25m transformer lease to Coega Steels.

The South African agricultural industry welcomed the cut in the fuel levy, but there are calls for more action to protect the country’s food security.

A new court judgment clarifies that talaq cannot bypass civil divorce laws, ensuring Muslim women can access interim maintenance, as mandated by recent legal changes in South Africa’s Divorce Act.

In two weeks the war on Iran emitted more carbon than the combined emission in a year of a country like Iceland or more than a million cars. This is the environmental backstory that seldom gets told as jets roar off carriers and rockets carry death to the enemy.

Use of biodiversity does involve trade-offs. But complexity does not justify analytical shortcuts. Trade-offs do not justify false equivalence. And regulatory structure and adaptive management without transparent rules does not substitute for ecological evidence.

South Africa’s water purification and wastewater treatment plants continue to crumble, wasting dam-loads of clean water, polluting rivers and raising health risks.

Last year, Daily Maverick published an article that led Minister John Steenhuisen to file a complaint with the Press Ombud. While most of his grievances were dismissed, the Deputy Ombud determined that Daily Maverick should have offered Steenhuisen a Right of Reply regarding a specific claim linking his trade dealings with China to the dismissal of then Environment Minister Dion George. We have...

Seven accused allegedly linked to a campaign of violent extortion targeting Intercape and other long-distance buses have finally appeared in court, a significant milestone in a case that has exposed the scale and coordination of criminal extortion networks.

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