2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (226+ words) Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt South African sport has been hit by another leadership controversy after Sascoc president Barry Hendricks was suspended with immediate effect. The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee announced the temporary suspension on Wednesday while an internal…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (269+ words) The mayor of the Big Five Hlabisa Municipality is fighting back against the construction mafia. Comfort Khumalo wants to stop gangs from ruining community projects by demanding a massive cut of the money. Contractors building roads and bridges in uMkhanyakude…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (696+ words) Free bus rides and a break from rising municipal rates. That is ActionSA’s big promise to Cape Town residents as the party fights for votes ahead of the 4 November local government elections. ActionSA mayoral candidate Dereleen James says the party…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (254+ words) Compiled by Anita Dangazele Anele Mdoda is taking her love story to Netflix. The radio and television personality will show fans what happened behind the scenes of her wedding. She and her husband, Bonelela “Buzza James” Mgudlwa, are the stars…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (972+ words) Woman arrested over DJ Warras murder: Police have made another breakthrough in the murder of popular media personality Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock. KwaZulu-Natal police arrested a 40-year-old woman at a homestead in Msinga on Wednesday. Police say she helped one…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (612+ words) Busisiwe Nxedlana sleeps to avoid finishing the food she has been given. What is left has to last, because she does not know when more is coming. Nxedlana, a mother of two from Happy Valley in Cape Town, started feeling…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (344+ words) Advocate Sandile Khumalo, a commissioner at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, has been caught in a frightening campaign of threats and intimidation, alongside Advocates for Transformation national chairperson Advocate Myron Dewrance SC. And the threats are getting worse. Advocates for…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (620+ words) By Tulani Ngwenya for Oxpeckers For decades residents of eMbalenhle, a large township in Govan Mbeki Municipality in Mpumalanga, have lived and died in the plumes of Sasol’s Secunda plant. The plant also produces by‑products like ammonia, but it…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (200+ words) Compiled by Anita Dangazele A Johannesburg Metro Police Department officer allegedly took more than R1.5 million in cash bribes in a single day, according to information revealed in Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s written reply to Parliament. The figure emerged in response…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (614+ words) AKA’s frantic call before Anele’s fatal fall Kiernan “AKA” Forbes made a frantic call to hotel staff moments before his fiancée, Anele Tembe, fell to her death from a Cape Town hotel, an inquest has heard. A Pepperclub Hotel employee…...