The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is in advanced talks to acquire Shell’s South African downstream assets. The deal could reshape the country’s fuel retail sector and deepen Gulf investment ties
The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for social development has been removed from the National Freedom Party with immediate effect
Mkhwanazi is expected to appear in court on Monday
The Chair, held by Professor Prinola Govenden, will focus on addressing digital inclusion, cultural representation and equitable access to knowledge in Africa’s rapidly evolving digital environment
Illicit cigarettes make up about 60% of South Africa’s market, according to research from the University of Cape Town, raising alarm over lost tax revenue and growing public health risks
Tongaat Hulett has been granted a temporary reprieve from liquidation after the Durban High Court approved an adjournment, giving business rescue practitioners time to finalise a recovery plan backed by billions in IDC funding
Allegations of governance failures have emerged over the IDC’s involvement in a R2.1bn Club Med Tinley leisure development
The Madlanga Commission has heard evidence of a metro police operation in which the precious metal was seized but then vanished
eThekwini says it is cooperating with investigations into EPWP corruption, including claims of “jobs for sex” and ghost workers
A Cape Town NGO, Heroes Academy, is using mentorship, socio-emotional learning and life skills to reshape boys’ understanding of masculinity and help prevent gender-based violence in township communities
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has suspended EPWP funding to eThekwini after an Auditor-General report exposed ghost beneficiaries, irregular payments and allegations of “jobs for sex” corruption
Officials said that while black empowerment faced implementation challenges, it remained central to government’s economic inclusion objectives
Madlanga commission police witness Sergeant Fannie Nkosi said he feared being poisoned in prison and had diabetes, reasons which the court said were insufficient to allow him to be placed in Kgosi Mampuru’s hospital wing
Martha Mani Rantsofu, a finance clerk at Emfuleni local municipality, was gunned down while waiting for her vehicle at a tyre-fitting shop
The saga of the Nelson Mandela Bay city manager, who has been under suspension for three years, highlights systemic mismanagement amid persistent service delivery failures and is leading to voters losing confidence, analysts say
Senior officials told the Madlanga commission that more than R2bn was siphoned through security deals meant to protect metro police
While on the Madlanga commission witness stand, Nkosi divulged various criminal dealings between senior police officials and Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic channel in a rapidly shifting conflict
Yolanda Faro says that the testimony of corruption revealed at the Madlanga Commission concerning corruption in her department is alarming
Analysts say that while trade diversification remains important, the Middle East provides key corridors to agricultural exports
Easter road fatalities fall from 356 to 291 thanks to intensified enforcement and 321 roadblocks nationwide
An unflinching letter to God that wrestles with the visibility of suffering and the uneasy distance between those who endure war and those who witness it
With only 16% of municipalities passing audits, South Africans face failing water systems, roads and governance. The coming elections test not only politics but morality, highlighting a growing call for divine restoration
The US-Israel war on Iran is disrupting oil trade, pushing up petrol prices and raising concerns over the growing use of religion to justify war
As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths
A grandmother’s final visit becomes a quiet reckoning with the intimate wars of the body, memory and a life shaped by apartheid’s unseen violences
Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe was forced to retract a DG vacancy post she defended after President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified that the power to appoint someone in the position lay with him
Petrol will rise by R3.06 a litre and diesel by up to R7.51/litre but a temporary R3/litre fuel levy relief will be in effect until 5 May
The national power utility is heading for a second year of profits but experts say tariff hikes and state bailouts remain central to its financial recovery
The ANC has postponed its Eastern Cape provincial conference indefinitely, leaving leadership battles and court disputes unresolved
The recent arrests of 12 senior police officials show how the alleged cartel leader took over the procurement process
Labour lawyer Chinette Gallichan was fatally shot outside the CCMA offices in Johannesburg CBD. Civil society groups say the attack represents a threat to South Africa’s rule of law, highlighting rising risks faced by legal professionals in the justice system