Some business owners in Standerton are contemplating selling their assets and leaving the town owing to the collapse of the local municipality which has seen them struggle with billing and broken infrastructure.

The administrator at Lekwa local municipality in Mpumalanga, Johann Mettler, says it will take at least three years to turn around the collapsed municipality.

Kaizer Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter says attacking midfielder Keagan Dolly has overcome his fitness challenges and is in the best possible physical shape.

The winds of discontent are blowing through the community of Standerton and neighbouring townships over poor service delivery ahead of municipal elections next month.

A shootout earlier in October that lasted five hours and left eight people dead is the latest in a string of clashes between police, private mine security and illicit miners.

Police have made three arrests after the suspected gang-related shooting of guests at a birthday party in Mitchells Plain at the weekend.

While growing up in KwaMakhutha, south of Durban, Sindisiwe Malanda was fascinated by how electricity was transmitted through cables from power stations to homes.

While South Africans are heading to the ballot box on 1 November, News24’s Out of Order index, calculated from a set of data painstakingly collated over the last two months, suggests that the crisis on the frontline of service delivery is likely to deepen.

Taiwan tech giant Foxconn unveiled its first three electric vehicle prototypes on Monday, underscoring ambitious plans to diversify away from its role of building consumer electronics for Apple Inc and other tech firms

Mazda’s Ford Ranger-based BT-50 was long in need of replacement, and its sales slowed to a trickle as newer and more modern rivals were launched in SA

The Gauteng roads and transport department has obtained an order interdicting violence between the Witwatersrand African Taxi Owners Association and the Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association.

Unisa vice-chancellor and principal professor Puleng LenkaBula has obtained an interim order prohibiting a former student leader from publishing false information about her.

The undisputed top driver in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2021 earned the chance to finish his best season off with a championship on Sunday when he won the Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in overtime

In this week’s episode of the Ballot Box, News24’s political editor Qaanitah Hunter chats to former DA MP Phumzile van Damme about combatting the spread of misinformation and disinformation during the municipal elections.

Facebook South Africa needs to “come to the party” to set up systems to monitor disinformation and misinformation ahead of the 2021 municipal elections, says Phumzile van Damme.

Five district municipalities are up for grabs in the Western Cape in the municipal elections: the Cape Winelands, Central Karoo, Garden Route, Overberg and West Coast. News24 speaks to three of the smaller parties which will be contesting the elections

One of the few small joys dying Martha Ficks has is a small cup of tea three times a day. Her sister Philida Cloete carries it to her slowly, careful not to spill it – every drop of water is used sparingly and she doesn’t want to use the ration they have for the day on making another mug or mopping up a mess.

Recovering drug addicts in Klerksdorp, North West, share their stories of pain, grief and addiction.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to root out incompetent and corrupt leaders in the Free State’s troubled Maluti-a-Phofung municipality, where he was conducting the ANC’s election campaign for the local government elections.

The department of basic education says it is yet to discuss with the department of health how the vaccination of children aged 12 to 17 will affect schooling.