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South Africa absolutely demolished India by 408 runs in Guwahati to wrap up a 2-0 series clean sweep, marking their first Test series win on Indian soil in 25 years. Off-spinner Simon Harmer ripped through the batting lineup with figures of 6-37 as India got rolled for just 140 while chasing an...

A Gauteng High Court judge got busted by the Hawks for allegedly taking bribes to fix a church leadership case. Portia Phahlane, age 57, was arrested at her home alongside her son and two other people connected to the International Pentecost Holiness Church succession drama. Prosecutors claim...

The DA is hyped about Fezile Dabi District Municipality dropping cash on fresh wheels after their old fleet was basically garage decorations at this point. The council grabbed five new rides, a mix of bakkies and sedans, to help different departments actually do their jobs across the massive...

South Africa's science minister told a packed forum in Pretoria that African countries need to stop letting foreign donors decide what gets researched on the continent. Blade Nzimande said the donor money usually comes with strings attached that push projects that don't actually solve local...

Chief Justice Mandisa Maya dropped two annual reports about how the courts are doing, and the justice department says they're gonna use the info to figure out how to make things run better. She became the first woman in that top job and laid out some rough numbers showing regional criminal...

South African roads turn into death traps every holiday season, and the government is begging people to chill out with the reckless driving before more families get wrecked. Last festive period saw over 1,500 deaths from crashes, which works out to like 30 people dying daily because someone...

The former Road Accident Fund boss is refusing to show up for parliamentary hearings and says the whole thing breaks the rules. Collins Letsoalo told reporters his legal team sent letters demanding lawmakers back off or face court action, claiming the public accounts committee has zero business...

Nedbank cut a check for 600 million rand to Transnet after getting dragged into some sketchy interest rate swap deals that had Gupta fingerprints all over them. The logistics company said those transactions from back in the day ended up costing them around 3.4 billion extra in interest payments...

Standard Bank just became the first African lender to plug straight into China's payment network called CIPS, which lets them move money in yuan without touching US dollars. The setup means companies trading between Africa and China can skip the middleman currency and save up to 30 percent on...

Pretoria mayor Nasiphi Moya had cops shut down a bar called Ipi Ntombi after finding out Chinese nationals were running it as a full-blown brothel. Sex workers were getting charged a thousand bucks weekly just to rent rooms there, and officials found cash hidden under beds during the raid. The...

South Africa's deputy minister for women and youth told everyone to stop messing around with performative activism when it comes to violence against women and girls. She went hard at a campaign launch in Midrand, saying the media and entertainment industry needs to actually shift culture instead...

The Hawks just opened an investigation after 17 South African guys allegedly got tricked into fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war. Some MK Party MP named Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla and two other people are being accused of luring these dudes with fake job offers for security training or VIP...

South Sudan's information ministry sent a team to check out how South Africa handles government communication stuff. The visitors from Juba got to meet with Kenny Morolong, who runs communications for the presidency, and he walked them through how the whole system got built after 1994. The South...

Khoisan leader Crawford Fraser died at 51 after years of fighting for indigenous recognition and land rights across South Africa. The paramount chief of the Korana House spent decades pushing government bodies to acknowledge First Nations communities and helped organize protests against...

Deputy President Paul Mashatile called out broken local government systems for wrecking water infrastructure across the country while addressing parliament. The guy said two-thirds of municipal water setups are barely functioning and most systems are delivering worse quality than before because...

Police across South Africa grabbed over 16,000 suspects during their festive season crackdown with nearly 2,000 wanted criminals getting caught for heavy stuff like murder and carjacking. The operation pulled in people facing charges from drug dealing to drunk driving while cops confiscated 150...

South African women's soccer team Banyana Banyana got back together for camp ahead of their friendly against Morocco after already locking down qualification for the next Africa Cup tournament. Coach Desiree Ellis assembled a 26-player mix of local and overseas talent but had to send defender...

South African police are sending their deputy minister and a bunch of senior cops to the big Interpol meeting happening in Morocco this week. Cassel Mathale is leading the crew that wants to talk about how transnational crime keeps messing up the country through dodgy border activity and...

The women's minister told media companies and the entertainment industries that they need to use their influence to stop normalizing violence against women. Sindisiwe Chikunga spoke at the kickoff for a campaign against gender violence and said storytellers have more power than policymakers when...

The government disaster committee wants everyone to pitch in to tackle gender violence after the president officially classified it as a national emergency. Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa held a meeting where officials said society needs to stop relying solely on bureaucrats to fix the problem and...