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2024 sees rise of smaller parties in political landscape

Weather alert: Heavy downpours, flooding, and damaging winds in eastern parts of SA

Stilfontein illegal miners resort to cannibalism as relief efforts begin to dwindle

Courts

Orkney resort stabbing: Attempted murder case against three men postponed

Courts

Will Zuma’s ‘Stalingrad’ strategy work to his advantage in 2025?

No electricity for parts of Joburg this weekend as City Power battle cable theft, vandalism

Sassa problems and glitches this year, will we get a basic income grant in 2025?

Crime

Eastern Cape tavern owner arrested for bribing police, shop owner killed in Qumbu

Crime

Three arrested along Garden Route for alleged teen kidnapping

Suspect in DA leader’s murder linked to gang

7-year-old assaulted, toddler missing in KZN

Crime

Suspected illegal miners, including 11 foreigners, arrested in Mpumalanga as explosives, guns seized

One dead, 50 families lose everything in Western Cape Christmas Day fire

2024 report card: Pieter Groenewald’s highs and lows this year

Crime

Women arrested in Free State for allegedly stabbing boyfriends

Crime

SA still plagued by GBV, say criminologists

Crime

Limpopo man charged with statutory rape of 13-year-old Christmas Day mother

Joburg ‘struggles to live up to world-class city aspirations’

Tourists fuming as Graskop Gorge is left high and dry on Christmas Day

Crime

Police nab alleged Facebook serial rapist for attacking teen girls

Weather: Thunderstorms with flooding risks in four provinces

Crime

Christmas crash claims child’s life, injures mother and baby

Man decapitated, multiple injuries in KZN Christmas Day crashes

Fire guts 28 shacks as ‘intoxicated’ resident falls asleep while cooking