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No work, big pay: As local government elections approach, the issue of city manager Noxolo Nqwazi’s suspension will probably be used to score political points rather than solve service delivery failures in Nelson Mandela Bay. Photo: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality

City crumbles but manager bags millions

The saga of the Nelson Mandela Bay city manager, who has been under suspension for three years, highlights systemic mismanagement amid persistent service delivery failures and is leading to voters losing confidence, analysts say

Testimony: TMPD Chief Yolanda Faro has told the commission she stopped an R800 million tender in March 2025. Photo: Supplied

How Tshwane was looted via tenders 

Senior officials told the Madlanga commission that more than R2bn was siphoned through security deals meant to protect metro police

Sergeant Fannie Nkosi was denied bail by the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday. He is scheduled to return to court on 13 April for a further bail application.

Sergeant Fannie Nkosi denied bail after found in possession of explosives, guns, case dockets and R50 000 cash

While on the Madlanga commission witness stand, Nkosi divulged various criminal dealings between senior police officials and Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala

Conditional: Iran has accepted the ceasefire but on certain terms.

Immediate ceasefire declared as US and Iran head to Islamabad talks

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced that the ceasefire would apply “everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere”, positioning Islamabad as the central diplomatic channel in a rapidly shifting conflict

Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) Chief Yolanda Faro testifying at the Madlanga Commission.

Tshwane metro chief halted irregular R800 million security tender

Yolanda Faro says that the testimony of corruption revealed at the Madlanga Commission concerning corruption in her department is alarming

Exports: South Africa is a leading supplier of citrus to the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Citrus Growers Association of
Southern Africa

SA strengthens agricultural trade amid Middle East tension

Analysts say that while trade diversification remains important, the Middle East provides key corridors to agricultural exports

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy

Transport Minister Creecy reports 18% drop in Easter road fatalities

Easter road fatalities fall from 356 to 291 thanks to intensified enforcement and 321 roadblocks nationwide

Lingering destruction: An Iranian man gestures as he stands near destroyed homes after a military strike on Tehran, Iran’s capital, on March 15, 2026. Photo: Unicef/Kenare/AFP

Letter to God of war

An unflinching letter to God that wrestles with the visibility of suffering and the uneasy distance between those who endure war and those who witness it

Dysfunctional: Infrastrccture failure and lack of repair and upgrade, seen on a road at a taxi rank in Emfuleni. The muicipality is in a complete state of failure. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Only God can save municipalities as collapse deepens

With only 16% of municipalities passing audits, South Africans face failing water systems, roads and governance. The coming elections test not only politics but morality, highlighting a growing call for divine restoration

Hit: Smoke rising from the Thai bulk carrier, Mayuree Naree, near the Strait of Hormuz after an attack in March 2026. Photo: Royal Thai Navy

Iran war and Greater Israel Project

The US-Israel war on Iran is disrupting oil trade, pushing up petrol prices and raising concerns over the growing use of religion to justify war

Lifelong toll: The author’s grandmother, Tryphina Chepape’s body has become the most immediate site of the quiet war, the place where everything seems to converge, where time, labour, memory and pain all meet without buffer. Photo: Supplied

The God of War within

A grandmother’s final visit becomes a quiet reckoning with the intimate wars of the body, memory and a life shaped by apartheid’s unseen violences

Hallowed halls: Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Andrew Price

Not in ritual; but restriction

As Easter approaches, access to Jerusalem’s holy sites reveals the politics of occupation, not a clash of faiths

Social development appoints acting DG after Ramaphosa’s scathing rebuke

Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe was forced to retract a DG vacancy post she defended after President Cyril Ramaphosa clarified that the power to appoint someone in the position lay with him

From 1 April to 5 May, the levy on petrol will drop from R4.10/litre to R1.10/litre and on diesel from R3.93/litre to R0.93/litre, while other levies, including the Road Accident Fund and Carbon Fuel Levy, remain unchanged.

Fuel prices rise on Wednesday; government announces temporary relief

Petrol will rise by R3.06 a litre and diesel by up to R7.51/litre but a temporary R3/litre fuel levy relief will be in effect until 5 May

The electricity that was generated in March this year decreased more than 5% compared to March 2022

Eskom profits rise again but tariff hikes remain the real story

The national power utility is heading for a second year of profits but experts say tariff hikes and state bailouts remain central to its financial recovery

The electricity that was generated in March this year decreased more than 5% compared to March 2022

Eskom profits rise again but tariff hikes remain the real story

The national power utility is heading for a second year of profits but experts say tariff hikes and state bailouts remain central to its financial recovery

ANC Eastern Cape conference indefinitely postponed amid court disputes and internal divisions

The ANC has postponed its Eastern Cape provincial conference indefinitely, leaving leadership battles and court disputes unresolved

Nabbed: The 12 senior police officers appearing in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court. Photo: Kamogelo Moichela

How the Cat captured top brass in SAPS

The recent arrests of 12 senior police officials show how the alleged cartel leader took over the procurement process

Attorney Chinette Gallichan was shot in broad daylight outside the offices of the Council for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in the Johannesburg CBD

Chinette Gallichan killed in Johannesburg CBD: ‘attack on rule of law’

Labour lawyer Chinette Gallichan was fatally shot outside the CCMA offices in Johannesburg CBD. Civil society groups say the attack represents a threat to South Africa’s rule of law, highlighting rising risks faced by legal professionals in the justice system

National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. (SAPS/X)

Police Commissioner Masemola served with warrant for involvement in Matlala’s R360 million Medicare24 contract

Matlala’s Medicare24 contract was approved during Masemola’s tenure and later cancelled by the police commissioner after reports of poor service delivery and illegal procurement