Domestic

National police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said Nelson Massango was rearrested on Wednesday at a car hire dealership in Sandton.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has increased Value Added Tax (VAT) by half-a-percentage point in the 2025/26 financial year, and by another half-a-percentage point in the following year. It was Godongwana's second attempt to table the first budget speech under the Government of National Unity following a postponement in February.

Mossel Bay photographer and videographer Christiaan Stopforth had an extraordinary encounter with an elusive and scarcely seen blanket octopus in the harbour. Blanket octopuses spend their whole lives, three to five years, floating in the open ocean and when they feel threatened, they swoop down into deeper waters with their capes flowing behind them.

The Hawks in the Northern Cape welcomed the sentencing on Tuesday of the former municipal manager of Karoo Hoogland Municipality, Louis Nothnagel, for theft.

RTMC welcomes conviction and sentencing of KZN driver arrested on New Year's Eve for being three times over the legal drinking limit.

A Facebook friendship between two Free State women took a dramatic turn when an arrangement to exchange a newborn baby led to a false kidnapping charge.

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube told Parliament on Tuesday that a great deal of progress had been made in eradicating the 3,372 pit toilets at schools around the country. Gwarube briefed the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Tuesday.

Eastern Cape police have arrested six suspects aged between 27 and 29 in less than two hours after they allegedly shot and killed a man in KwaMaqoma (formerly Ford Beaufort) and fled with a cellphone. Spokesperson Warrant Officer Majola Nkohli says the incident happened late on Monday afternoon at around 17:30.

At least twelve people have lost their lives in a major bus accident at the R21/R24 North split near Kempton Park, where the bus overturned.