3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (454+ words) • Balobedu maidens performed their Khekhapa traditional dance as Rain Queen Masalanabo Modjadji VII joined thousands attending the Zulu Reed Dance. • More than 30,000 reeds were delivered to the royal palace after shortages left disappointed maidens without reeds at last year’s ceremony....

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (226+ words) Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt South African sport has been hit by another leadership controversy after Sascoc president Barry Hendricks was suspended with immediate effect. The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee announced the temporary suspension on Wednesday while an internal…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (696+ words) Free bus rides and a break from rising municipal rates. That is ActionSA’s big promise to Cape Town residents as the party fights for votes ahead of the 4 November local government elections. ActionSA mayoral candidate Dereleen James says the party…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (254+ words) Compiled by Anita Dangazele Anele Mdoda is taking her love story to Netflix. The radio and television personality will show fans what happened behind the scenes of her wedding. She and her husband, Bonelela “Buzza James” Mgudlwa, are the stars…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (972+ words) Woman arrested over DJ Warras murder: Police have made another breakthrough in the murder of popular media personality Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock. KwaZulu-Natal police arrested a 40-year-old woman at a homestead in Msinga on Wednesday. Police say she helped one…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (612+ words) Busisiwe Nxedlana sleeps to avoid finishing the food she has been given. What is left has to last, because she does not know when more is coming. Nxedlana, a mother of two from Happy Valley in Cape Town, started feeling…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (335+ words) Two security guards were killed and a third wounded during a cash-in-transit robbery in Mamelodi East, Pretoria, on Monday, 7 September. The Security Personnel Party of South Africa, known as SPPSA, has offered a R200,000 reward for information leading to the arrest…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (614+ words) AKA’s frantic call before Anele’s fatal fall Kiernan “AKA” Forbes made a frantic call to hotel staff moments before his fiancée, Anele Tembe, fell to her death from a Cape Town hotel, an inquest has heard. A Pepperclub Hotel employee…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (495+ words) The African National Congress (ANC) has gone to court to rescue councillor candidates left off its election lists after a deadline blunder that could cost the party representation in six municipalities. The party has filed papers with the Electoral Court…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1749+ words) By Palesa Matlala and Selloane Ntshonyane • Enos Mafokate rose from working as a groom under apartheid to become a pioneering Black show jumper who competed internationally. • At his Soweto Equestrian Centre, Mafokate taught young people riding, discipline and responsibility, helping…...