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Former VBS Bank chairperson Tshifhiwa Matodzi’s leaked affidavit alleged the involvement of a number of people in the looting of the bank, including EFF leader Julius Malema and deputy president Floyd Shivambu. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

VBS victim: EFF wants stolen land returned but won’t pay back our looted life savings

Victims say ANC is “afraid” to act against implicated MEC Florence Radzilani

Smoke rises as the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue in Khartoum, Sudan on June 09, 2023. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Resistance committees keep Sudan’s revolution alive

They ousted a dictator, defied a junta and now Sudan’s resistance committees are providing the only support to desperate people in their areas amid the war and persecution. Mark Weston spoke to one committee member in Khartoum

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI- MARCH 07: A BIM police stands guard  in front of the Brigade d’Intervention Motoris police base as a damaged armored police vehicle is seen behind while Haiti’s government extended on Thursday the nighttime curfew and state of emergency in the capital of Port-au-Prince for a month amid a wave of violence unleashed by armed groups in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on March 07, 2024. An initial three-day curfew was announced over the weekend, but gangs have continued attacking police stations and other official institutions, which has the police besieged and outnumbered to combat the armed gangs. According to official figures, a dozen police buildings have been attacked. (Photo by Guerinault Louis/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Kenya police deployment to Haiti: What’s next?

Haitian gangs that control parts of the country have announced a coordinated effort to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry

Protestors with the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) holds a placard during a protest against the recent raise in cost of living/economic hardship across the country in Abuja on February 27, 2024.  (Photo by Olukayode Jaiyeola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Thousands of Nigerians protest over soaring costs

As inflation skyrockets, many poor Nigerians have had to skip meals and give up products such as meat, eggs and milk

Rapper AKA was gunned down in Durban last year. (Photo by Gallo Images / Oupa Bopape)

Seventh suspect arrested in AKA murder case

Five suspects will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Thursday

East Cape Midlands College students burn paper and cardboard outside the college gates on Friday morning after forcing staff off the premises. Photo: Loyiso Dyongman

Makhanda students burn paper in protest against NSFAS

Three days of protest because allowances are now paid directly to landlords

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana. (Photo: David Harrison)
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WATCH LIVE: Godongwana delivers the 2024 Budget speech

Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, will present the 2024 Budget Speech at the Cape Town City Hall

A UN report says that the Rwanadan army is using missiles in the DRC. (Photo by Cyrile Ndegeya/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Rwanda army using SAM missiles in east DRC: UN report

Kigali denies that it is supporting the rebels in a bid to control vast mineral resources

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

READ IN FULL | Ramaphosa’s 2024 state of the nation address

The president delivered his 8th address. The last one before elections later this year

Not guaranteed: Prime Minister Amadou Ba is the ruling party’s presidential candidate for the February 2024 presidential election, after President Macky Sall said he would not seek a third term. Photo: Seyllou/AFP

Senegal election still anyone’s game

Although the West African country has not experienced a coup, unlike others in the region, the February vote could be marred by violence

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Everybody wants white privilege

History teaches us the dangers of one group of people claiming moral authority over the rights of another and Israel should take note

South Africa’s case against Israel’s actions in Gaza has boosted its international standing and secured its position as the moral voice of the Global South. (Photo by Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

World court agreed that Israel is on the wrong side of history

South Africa’s case against Israel’s actions in Gaza has boosted its international standing and secured its position as the moral voice of the Global South

This is one of the broken ablution blocks at Durban Deep Primary near Roodepoort. The Gauteng education department had promised that a new school would be built years ago, but this has not yet happened, and children are forced to learn in decaying classrooms. Photos: Silver Sibiya

Anger at Panyaza Lesufi for failing to fix Roodepoort school for years

The department committed to replacing the school with a brick-and-mortar structure more than five years ago

Many R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant beneficiaries are complaining of fraudsters taking their cellphone numbers, preventing them from accessing their grants. Archive photo: Nomfundo Xolo

Recipients blocked from getting R350 grant after fraudsters change their cell numbers

Sassa says the SRD grant has placed a massive burden on the agency and plans to implement new software to help prevent fraud

X marks the spot: American author Ben Mezrich uses his access to South African-born billionaire Elon Musk’s closest associates to bring readers the inside story in Breaking Twitter. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Toe-to-toe steers ‘Chief Twit’ from the brink

This is an edited extract from Ben Mezrich’s new book called Breaking Twitter

Vested interest: The last French troops withdrew from Niger on 22 December last year, marking an end to
more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in West Africa’s Sahel region. Photo: Boureima Hama/AFP

Scramble for the Sahel intensifies

Why foreign powers France, Russia, China and the United States are interested in the region

The newly elected president of the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador Omar Zniber (centre), of Morocco.
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Morocco elected as UN Human Rights Council president ahead of SA

Morocco was in a race with South Africa and came out tops with more than 60% of the vote

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) denies that there was anything exceptional about January’s payment run. But many people have complained to #PayTheGrants and Black Sash.

Many child support grant recipients left without money for January

Sassa spokesperson denies there is a problem, but officials speaking anonymously say otherwise

A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home in Beit Hanoun, Gaza, after the recent cross-border war between Israel and Hamas. (Photograph by Fatima Shbair/ Getty Images)

Israelis and Palestinians end dark year, with no end in sight to war

Heavy bombardment, and a ground invasion launched three weeks into the war, have reduced vast areas of Gaza to a ruined wasteland and killed at least 21,822 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Supplied

Zuma warns against power-hungry party members

Zuma was addressing residents at Heroes Acre in Imbali, where he visited the graves of struggle stalwarts Moses Mabhida and Johny Makhathini