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Weather alert: Here’s what to expect across South Africa on Sunday

Elections 2026

‘We accepted it the last time’: MK party hints at possible court challenge over IEC results

Elections 2026

IEC races to conclude election results as two objections upheld

Politics

‘You wrote off uMkhonto weSizwe’, says Mpofu as party prepares for coalition negotiations

Elections 2026

Mbalula: We thought we would be totally wiped out in KZN

Elections 2026

Malema mocks Ndlozi for not voting: ‘It’s not normal’

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Elections 2026 All eyes on Joburg battle as ANC-ActionSA alliance potentially emerges

Elections 2026 Zuma’s MK party draws coalition red lines: here’s its non-negotiable

Elections 2026 Duduzane Zuma confident of MK party victories: ‘We’re shaking, we are baking… The champagne is on ice’

Elections 2026 DA claims more than 1 million black South Africans voted for it, but analyst says ‘not so fast’

Elections 2026 Mbeki predicts rise in hung municipalities as Ntshavheni questions foreigners voting

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Weather

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News

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News

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Elections 2026

MK party wants eThekwini votes quarantined over KZN IEC ‘system failures’

News

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Elections 2026

Zille’s ‘gusheshe’ campaign has paid off for the DA, says expert

Elections 2026

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Crime

Police hunt three suspects after Trichardt shooting claims lives of two brothers

Elections 2026

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News

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Courts

Bail denied for man accused of killing TUT student in Soweto

Weather

Saturday’s weather: Severe thunderstorms, flooding and hail expected in parts of SA

Elections 2026

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Courts

Peter ‘Gagash’ Nonyane seeks bail again amid plea negotiations in estate fraud case

Courts

‘Can’t take it at face value’: Defence ‘unhappy’ over docket in Mkhwanazi blue lights case

World

‘Enjoy the moment’: The German clubs limiting smartphones in stadiums

Africa

Kenyan starvation cult leader sentenced to 200 years for child murders

Politics

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla on possible MK party return

Crime

Two live pangolins worth R1m found in car boot, four arrested in Rustenburg

Opinion

Collen Malatji | South Africans did not vote for the ANC to take an ‘L’

Courts

Blow for Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla as court denies bid to have charges dropped in terrorism trial

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