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Four of the 17 South African men who were allegedly lured into the Russia-Ukraine war with false promises of jobs returned to the country on Wednesday, landing at O.R. Tambo International Airport where they were then whisked away by police, public broadcaster SABC reported. This comes after President Cyril Ramaphosa last week raised the matter…
It’s a scorching Tuesday in Melville, west of Johannesburg. Plastic buckets line the driveway of Michael Almeida’s home, a makeshift lifeline in the city’s worsening water crisis. Almeida has endured more than 23 days without water, leaving him desperate and exhausted. “This area continuously has water outages,” he said, wiping sweat from his brow. Almeida,…
The Mail & Guardian invites the public to nominate exceptional young people aged 18 to 35, with nominations closing on Friday, 13 March 2026. This prestigious initiative celebrates young leaders, innovators and changemakers across 15 categories, including the Editor’s Choice category, which recognises those developing resilient, entrepreneurial and impactful solutions to the challenges of today…
The KwaZulu-Natal head of the Directorate and Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Lesetja Senona, on Wednesday again denied sharing confidential information with businessman and alleged leader of the Big 5 Cartel Vusimuzi Cat Matlala, insisting they had spoken about general news events as friends. Matlala contacted Senona soon after the businessman’s home was raided and his…
Hundreds of residents from six villages in Sicwenza outside Flagstaff in the Eastern Cape have been without running water for 17 years. Villagers say the problems started in 2009 when a generator for a borehole that supplied the area was removed by municipal officials after it broke down. It was never returned. They complain that…
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi on Friday accused national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi of failing to investigate allegations of human rights abuses linked to former KwaZulu-Natal head of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (the Hawks) Johan Booysen and members of the specialised Cato Manor police unit. At the Nkabinde inquiry into South Gauteng director…
The government has officially classified gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) as a national disaster. The head of the National Disaster Management Centre, Bongani Sithole, made the decision after reviewing new reports from government and civil society. The centre found that the ongoing violence poses serious and immediate risks to people’s safety and now meets the…
International astrophysicists have commended South Africa’s development of radio telescopes for astronomy research, but have called for more collaboration from the country’s institutes to advance research in the field. Three major radio telescopes are being developed in South Africa. The first, KAT-7, was completed in 2010 and served as a small seven-dish prototype to test…
The disbandment of a KwaZulu-Natal-based political killings task team was a surprise, and the handover of 121 dockets it was working on to the South African Police Service (SAPS) head office was “messy”, a member of the team told the Madlanga commission on Monday. “Within 24 hours, [task team] members had to try and scan…
Suspended deputy national commissioner for crime Shadrack Sibiya moved 121 case dockets from the KwaZulu-Natal-based political killings task team without a proper explanation, a witness told the Madlanga Commission on Monday. Mary Motsepe, the head of serious and violent crimes, told the commission, chaired by retired judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga, that she was instructed to collect…