13+ hour, 51+ min ago   (915+ words) The South African Police Service’s (SAPS) treatment of its canines has come under scrutiny after the recent death of Sky, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois and former police arson-detection dog. Following Sky’s euthanasia after suffering serious injuries, allegedly sustained while trying…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1057+ words) There comes a point where legitimate criticism of a national football federation becomes something entirely different: an attempt by a select group of former players, self-appointed “legends” and football personalities to dictate how the country’s football administration should be conducted....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (467+ words) Drowning in a slew of criminal charges, alleged Big Five cartel member Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala has also now caught the beady eye of the taxman. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) is targeting his company, Medicare24 Tshwane District, over R14.2m in outstanding…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (879+ words) Conflicting accounts of when a call for help was made to hotel reception before Anele Tembe’s fatal fall emerged during a formal inquest into her death at the Cape Town magistrate’s court this week, raising questions about the timeline of…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (730+ words) Seconds after Anele Tembe fell from the 10th floor of Cape Town’s Pepperclub Hotel, a resident who saw her lying on the pavement looked towards a balcony and saw Kiernan “AKA” Forbes leaning over the railing and screaming, “Oh my God,…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (817+ words) “Leave me alone, get away from me.” These were the words Roberto Stefanutto told the Cape Town magistrate’s court he heard a woman scream moments before Anele Tembe fell from the 10th floor of the city’s Pepperclub Hotel in April 2021. The…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (778+ words) As President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed Southern African leaders to Durban in August, municipal workers demanding higher pay littered the streets of Pietermaritzburg with rubbish. eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal’s only metropolitan municipality, presented clean streets to its international guests. Northwest of the coastal…...

1+ week, 34+ min ago   (310+ words) MultiChoice is overhauling DStv’s package line-up for the first time in 15 years, with standalone sports and movies packages. The new packages, which launch on September 17, expand access to channels including M-Net, kykNET and Mzansi Magic, while giving more customers access…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (566+ words) On September 5 2026, they did it again! SA 29 ─ 24 NZ. But the score, as I’ve come to appreciate, is not the point. What they are really carrying is not muscle mass, but the weight of hope. We live in a country where…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (548+ words) The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is, undoubtedly, one of the country’s finest institutions and, as far as credibility goes, ranks among the very best electoral bodies on the continent — if not in the world. This is a reputation…...