Hitman’s lawyer sentenced for delaying trial

The judge found Sithembiso Nkatha avoided court, delaying a mass murder trial from July 2025 to October 2026

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Law | 26 August 2026

Fruit workers strike over union recognition

Dispute over numbers at Villiersdorp company

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News | 26 August 2026

Joburg’s dirtiest river may lose its only champion

Environmental organisation KlipSA faces closure

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News | 26 August 2026

In this town, old women have to relieve themselves in a field

Some families have been living in Aloe-T informal settlement in Komani, Eastern Cape, since 1997

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News | 26 August 2026

Judges grill Treasury on SRD grant

SCA judge questions whether “people without the means to even buy a cellphone” should have to apply online

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Law | 25 August 2026

R233-million spent on buses for fleeing immigrants

About 100,000 people have left South Africa since June

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Parents close Cape Town school for three days because of sewage leak

Education department says it will be fixed by Wednesday

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Readers’ donations get church band going again

Instruments worth R100,000 were stolen from the Samora Machel band and sold for scrap

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Brief | 25 August 2026

Fired for being foreign: how employers gave in to March and March threats

The Casual Workers Advice Office has recorded a sharp rise in reports of xenophobic labour practices in Gauteng

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News | 25 August 2026