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On Freedom Day, South Africa should reckon with the man who documented what unfreedom looked like — and what it cost
SATURDAY, 02 MAY 2026, 03:49

On Freedom Day, South Africa should reckon with the man who documented what unfreedom looked like — and what it cost

KwaZulu-Natal police are trying to piece together the events that led to a shooting in Durban that resulted in a suspect being killed on Sunday.
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The suspected attacker in the shooting that plunged a press gala attended by US President Donald Trump into chaos has been identified by news media as a 31-year-old California man.

It will be wet in most parts of the country on Monday as thundershowers are expected. Some provinces will experience warm weather while strong or damaging winds will hit the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, according to the South African Weather Service.

South Africa’s Border Management Authority is celebrating fewer crossings. The Americans had the same celebration last year, and their apparatus did not shrink. It came home.

Mali’s defence minister died after an attack on his house, his family said on Sunday, as the army fought a second day of battles with jihadist fighters and separatist rebels near the capital Bamako and other cities, putting the Sahel nation’s ruling junta under severe pressure.
Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe broke the two-hour mark for the first time in history on Sunday in winning the London Marathon.
News24 investigative journalists Khaya Koko and Azarrah Karrim take you behind the scenes of the latest Johannesburg Water story and the contractors that pocketed millions.

The US-Israel war on Iran is sending shockwaves through global energy, food and financial systems, exposing deep structural vulnerabilities in the world economy, according to the WRI
US President Donald Trump and other attendees at a glitzy media gala in Washington made a hasty exit after gunshots were fired.

Remington House, a once-notorious hijacked building in Johannesburg, has been transformed into fully let student housing, illustrating what is possible when intervention is followed through