3+ hour, 34+ 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, 22+ hour ago   (270+ words) Residents living in the Matimba Heights flats in Mamelodi East are dealing with broken homes and serious building defects. They live with leaking pipes and damaged roofs. In some of the flats, the window frames are not attached to the…...

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…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (241+ words) Two security guards are dead after cash-in-transit robbers attacked a Fidelity delivery truck at the gates of a royal palace. The truck was travelling from Nongoma towards Pongola on Monday, 7 September 2026. A group of armed suspects driving in different vehicles…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (344+ words) Advocate Sandile Khumalo, a commissioner at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, has been caught in a frightening campaign of threats and intimidation, alongside Advocates for Transformation national chairperson Advocate Myron Dewrance SC. And the threats are getting worse. Advocates for…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (527+ words) More than 200,000 Golden Arrow commuters face an anxious wait as the bus company fights in court to stop a planned strike. Passengers should know on Wednesday whether the strike will go ahead from midnight on Thursday, 10 September. The National Union…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (620+ words) By Tulani Ngwenya for Oxpeckers For decades residents of eMbalenhle, a large township in Govan Mbeki Municipality in Mpumalanga, have lived and died in the plumes of Sasol’s Secunda plant. The plant also produces by‑products like ammonia, but it…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (416+ words) Listen to this article. It started small. Butho began lending colleagues transport fare before payday, charging 30% interest. This kind of informal lending falls outside South Africa’s National Credit Act, meaning neither borrowers nor lenders have any legal protection if something…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (298+ words) 247 learners with disabilities from three Limpopo special schools watched a movie built just for them. The Bridge of Hope programme hosted a movie day, screening Cinderella with subtitles, audio description and adapted visuals so deaf, autistic and physically disabled learners…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (210+ words) Hluhluwe: Communities in the rural villages of kwaHluhluwe, under uMkhanyakude, who have gone without proper roads since the apartheid era, finally saw their prayers answered after contractors were appointed to build a road connecting seven villages. Phikisiwe Gumede, from eNyathini…...