Daily Maverick and SA Harvest have launched their third annual festive season campaign to combat hunger in the Eastern Cape. This year’s focus is on supporting three holiday programmes. These initiatives are crucial for keeping children safe and fed during the school break, especially since the regular school nutrition programme is suspended for the year.

Advocate Xolisile Khanyile, advocate Hermione Cronje and advocate Menzi Simelane were in the hot seat on Thursday, vying for the post of National Director of Public Prosecutions. Here are the best and worst moments.

Six things you need to know about the ANC’s National General Council.

Tulbagh residents, who live in the heart of the Winelands in the Western Cape, complain that their tap water runs brown and smells like human excrement, causing children to fall ill. The municipality, however, insists the water is clean.

Artillery rounds echoed in the distance as Thai rubber tapper Boonkerd Yoodeerum settled into a folding bed, sheltering with his family under a bridge near the Cambodia border where fighting has erupted once more.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado appeared in Oslo, climbing barriers outside her hotel to hug well-wishers after the Venezuelan opposition figure failed to reach the Norwegian capital in time to receive her award at a ceremony held hours earlier.

Greedy local financial service giants and offshore betting pirates are helping drive our vast and fast-growing online gambling crisis, while the industry is also shaping up to be a major money laundering risk.

Seasoned broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer brings you The Lead, News24’s definitive podcast for in-depth reporting. This is The Lead, and this is the South African story.

The South African Weather Service has issued warnings of severe thunderstorms, with heavy rain leading to localised flooding for multiple provinces, while damaging waves are forecast in the Western Cape.