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Healthier stokvels? Pooling your rands, but not your nutrition

Politics

‘They are our neighbours, our partners’: Malema says white people should not leave South Africa

Opinion

A VIEW OF THE WEEK: With a GBV response like this, who needs enemies

Education

What are ‘scrubs’? New products consumed by students raise alarm

Opinion

Da Silva warns Brazil will become colony under Bolsonaro and Trump

News

‘I am literally dying’: Boipatong resident battles raw sewage

EDITOR'S CHOICE

Motoring Motorists warned to brace for record petrol pain at the pumps: Here’s how much you might pay

Courts Shadrack Sibiya’s son clarifies witness interference claims as recording played in court

South Africa South Africa risks ‘enormous loss’ as US rift deepens, analyst warns

Weather Gauteng weather: Here’s what to expect this first October weekend

News Madlanga commission halts sitting as ‘Cat’ Matlala subpoena row sparks delay

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Opinion

Gauteng family living in sewage for two years as health fails

News

Lesufi calls urgent GBV crisis meeting amid Ekurhuleni murders

News

Sewage crisis chokes South African communities

Local News

4 months on, family still searching for missing Polokwane mother

Local News

Wedela near Carletonville changed by tavern shooting

Local News

Farmer herds cattle to Fochville police station

Local News

Durban CBD shooting leaves four critically injured

Local News

Western Cape mayor, municipal manager and CFO arrested in corruption investigation

Local News

Man sentenced to 10 years after Kruger National Park shoot-out

Courts

Repeat offender gets 15 year jail sentence for Gqeberha Christmas Day murder

Opinion

Future bright for Mosimane and Bafana after perfect Afcon start

Courts

Man sentenced to 15 years in jail after kidnapping teens

News

Madlanga Commission moves to shield Crime Intelligence witness in closed‑door hearing

News

Moretele mayor sounds alarm over brutal killings, urges unity against violence

News

In case you missed it: Sibiya told teen to save herself for him | Mudzinganyama gets Bail | Proteas avoid group of death

Crime

PKTT arrests Western Cape mayor, municipal manager and CFO for corruption

Courts

Free State cop gets five years for R3 000 bribe demand

Courts

Jabulile Ntimba murder accused denies killing ‘cousin’, claims police torture to obtain confession

Courts

NW man gets life sentence for murder of 2-year-old step-grandson while high on crystal meth

Courts

Sibiya told teen to ‘save herself for him’ after sending explicit pictures, court hears

News

Auditor-general flags weak accountability as health sector audit outcomes slip

Weather

Here’s what weather to expect on Friday

Africa

Algeria adopts law imposing death penalty on forest arsonists

World

Nepal rescuers recover eight bodies after Himalayan avalanche

News

Moloto corridor: R46m spent on studies, no rail line built, but Public Protector finds no maladministration

News

Imogen Mashazi: Public protector explains why unqualified candidates keep landing senior municipal jobs