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Singer R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on September 17, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.  Kelly is facing multiple sexual assault charges and is being held without bail.   (Photo by Antonio Perez – Pool via Getty Images)

R. Kelly convicted of leading decades-long sex abuse ring

He faces up to life in prison, a dramatic fall for the singer long praised as R&B’s king

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Editorial: It’s done – but the Zuma saga will affect Ramaphosa’s long game

By the early hours of Thursday morning, Jacob Zuma was on one side of a cell door and the country he corrupted on the other. There is cause for reflection on both sides

Former president Jacob Zuma. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

Zuma goes to prison as the clock ran down on ConCourt order to effect warrant

In the absence of any ruling amending that of the apex court, the police minister and commissioner risked being in contempt too if they failed to detain the former president to…

Alleged underworld figure arrested after high-speed chase in Cape Town

Alleged underworld figure and three others have been arrested on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and murder of a police officer.

Alleged underworld figure arrested after high-speed chase in Cape Town

Alleged underworld figure and three others have been arrested on multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit murder and murder of a police officer.

Former president Jacob Zuma and now leader of uMkhonto weSizwe party. File photo

Zondo asks Constitutional Court to jail Zuma for two years for continued defiance

Zondo commission files urgent court papers asking that former president Jacob Zuma be imprisoned because his stance risks undermining the rule of law

‘Don’t vote, overthrow the dictators’

Tanzania’s opposition leader, who is again in exile, says ‘instead of telling people to vote, we should be telling them to prepare for popular revolt

Stolen heritage: Many cultural treasures from Africa and elsewhere sit in the museums of former colonisers. Photo: Franck Fife/AFP

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

Changed: Anathi Msindo, a former addict who stole to pay for drugs, attended a three-month diversion programme at the Walter Sisulu Child and Youth Care Centre. She is now back at school. (Hiram Alejandro Durán/M&G)

Child offender closes the circle

Children commit crimes. The reasons they do are rarely simple and the solution is not a criminal record

Nissan appeared to acknowledge the recent difficulties surrounding the Ghosn affair, which has cast questions over the company’s own corporate governance. (Kim Kyung hoon/Reuters)

Crisis-hit Nissan issues fresh profit warning

The firm downgraded its projection for net profit in the fiscal year to March 2019 from 410-billion yen to 319-billion yen

Public Enterprises’ Pravin Gordhan says there will also soon be changes to Eskom’s management team, as the ailing power utility undergoes restructuring

Presidency slams Gordhan arrest rumours

The Sunday Times reported on the ‘imminent arrest’ of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in relation to the SARS ‘rogue unit’.