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A former apartheid-era police officer convicted over an ANC activist's killing is now running for mayor in Nelson Mandela Bay.

The Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court in Johannesburg has closed at 1 p. m. Friday due to a water shortage affecting the building.

The Gauteng Department of Health has raised concern over low contraceptive uptake among women of reproductive age, with only 32.45% accessing contraceptive services in the first quarter of the 2026 and 2027 financial year.

The ANC’s National Working Committee has agreed to reinstate NEC member Andile Lungisa on the party’s proportional representation candidate list for Nelson Mandela Bay, according to Lungisa, following a dispute that has spilled into the courts.

Limpopo Premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba has claimed that people who disrespect or seek to undermine the law are drawn to South Africa, while criticising government officials for allowing foreign nationals to enter the country and allegedly exploit weaknesses within the state.

More than 1,600 counterfeit and illicit products, including cigarettes, mosquito repellent and cockroach-killing products, have been seized during a police operation in Middelburg.

A 40-year-old man will spend 12 years behind bars after a court found him guilty of attempting to rape a 16-year-old girl and contravening the Immigration Act.

A man in his 20s has died after the hatchback he was driving crashed into a truck on the N17 in Ekurhuleni, rolled several times and came to rest in the middle of the freeway.

The Reiger Park murder accused remain in custody after their bail judgment was postponed to October 6, amid allegations that accused Reagan Cheslin Collis was again found with a cellphone in prison.

Eleven people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed and three others injured after three gunmen allegedly opened fire on a group at a house in KwaMakhutha, South of Durban.

A disputed alibi and CCTV footage are at the centre of the bail proceedings involving four men accused of killing two police officers and two women in Reiger Park last month.

Five people were killed when a minibus taxi collided with a Mercedes-Benz sedan, overturned and caught fire at a busy Midrand intersection.

A KwaZulu-Natal Road Traffic Inspectorate officer, Timothy Simpson, died after the state-owned vehicle he was travelling in caught fire while he was on duty along the N2 freeway in Park Rynie on Tuesday night.

A shooting at a house in KwaMakhutha has left 11 people dead, including a woman believed to be pregnant, while three others were injured.

The Randburg Magistrates' Court heard that suspended deputy national police commissioner Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya allegedly took two girls, aged 16 and 18, to a Sandton strip club, where he plied them with alcohol before allegedly raping the older one.

Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya has been remanded in custody at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre until September 29, when he is expected to apply for bail on charges including rape, trafficking in persons and sexual grooming of a child.

Drama unfolded outside the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday as a close associate of a 59-year-old senior police officer accused of sexual offences claimed the lieutenant-general’s arrest was linked to a succession battle within the SAPS.

Tsakane Matlala, the wife of Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala was arrested on Tuesday morning on allegations of fraud.

The arrest of a lieutenant general accused of grooming a 16-year-old girl and raping an 18-year-old woman is “disappointing”, SAPS national spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said, while stressing that the service will not tolerate gender-based violence and femicide within its ranks.

PA leader Gayton McKenzie says the party would reinstate the death penalty, bring prayers to schools and send children to the army.

A 59-year-old lieutenant general is expected in court on Tuesday after being arrested over allegations involving a 16-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman.

Police are trying to trace the family of a woman whose body was found floating in a river in Clayville on September 7, as investigators probe nine cases involving women found dead across Ekurhuleni and surrounding areas.

Two women appeared in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court over the murder of Jabulile Ntimba, while police said a male suspect remained under investigation and had not been charged.

Two women face court over Jabulile Ntimba’s murder, while the case against a man arrested with them was not enrolled.

The woman found half-naked with her throat slit in a Boksburg field, feared to be the ninth woman killed in Ekurhuleni since July, may have been caught in a deadly love triangle, police said.