ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed polling suggesting that the Democratic Alliance (DA) is leading the party in several major metros, insisting that victory in the November 4 local government elections “belongs to the ANC.” Read on tinyurl.com/3e6k65ev #Ramaphosa #ANC #LocalElections

Members of the Tshwane Flying Squad have recovered a stolen black Nissan Navara after finding it abandoned at Leeuwfontein informal settlement in the Kameeldrift policing area. Read on tinyurl.com/mpa95bhb #StolenVehicle #Tshwane #NissanNavara

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s lawyer, Advocate Dali Mpofu SC, says he does not know why the State called a witness from her retirement pension fund to testify in court when her trial over the July 2021 unrest resumed in the Durban High Court on Monday. Read on tinyurl.com/arkyut62 #DuduzileZumaSambudla #JulyUnrest #DurbanHighCourt

Severe thunderstorms, heavy downpours and damaging winds are expected to affect parts of South Africa on Monday, with the South African Weather Service issuing a Yellow Level 2 warning for most of KwaZulu-Natal and the extreme northern parts of the Eastern Cape. Read on tinyurl.com/2ycb5cbk #news #WeatherAlert #SevereThunderstorms #DamagingWinds #HeavyDownpour

Deputy President Paul Mashatile is visiting the City of Tshwane on Monday, after 408 cases of gastrointestinal illness were reported in the Bronkhorstspruit area. Read on tinyurl.com/55cb62j4 #news #WaterCrisis #ToxicContamination #BronkhorstspruitArea #PaulMashatile

A Cape Town man has been convicted and sentenced in the Kuils River Magistrate’s Court for stealing indigenous plants from the Bracken Nature Reserve. Read on tinyurl.com/596x4u5j #news #PlantTheft #NatureCrime #ConservationCrackdown #HeavyFine

A 49-year-old police officer allegedly shot his wife three times before shooting himself at their home in Ikamvelihle, Gqeberha, on Monday morning. Read on tinyurl.com/y5r7s9my #news #DomesticViolence #PoliceOfficer #FamilyTragedy #TragicIncident

A Durban man who saved someone from drowning at Brighton Beach in Durban chose to remain humble and dismissed any hero status attached to his name. Read on tinyurl.com/mryuy4hx #news #HumbleHero #BeachRescue #SelflessAct #BraveDeed

Timol's death remains a powerful symbol of the brutality of apartheid-era detention and the long struggle to uncover the truth about those who died at the hands of the security police, writes Imtiaz Ahmed Cajee. Read on tinyurl.com/myw5ty79 #ApartheidAtrocity #AhmedTimol #UncoverTruth #SecurityPolice

Six people have been arrested by the Benoni Flying Squad in separate operations in Gauteng, with police recovering suspected stolen copper worth R25,000, nyaope and a stolen Hyundai H100. Read on tinyurl.com/4j842tm7 #news #CrimeCrackdown #PoliceSweep #SixArrested #PoliceOperation

A 93-year-old woman in western Japan outsmarted a suspected scammer by pretending to fall for the scheme and helping police arrest him at her home, an officer said on Monday. Read on tinyurl.com/ye25x538 #news #SeniorScam #ElderFraud #CleverSurvivor #JapaneseWoman

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The long-awaited trial of businessman Katiso “KT” Molefe and three co-accused in connection with the 2022 murders of musician and businessman Oupa “DJ Sumbody” Sefoka and his two bodyguards has been postponed once again. Read on tinyurl.com/53b983ab #news #TrialDelayed #MurderCase #JohannesburgCourt #KatisoMolefe

The MK Party's 22-vote victory over the DA in eThekwini’s Ward 110 in April 2025 highlights both the party’s electoral opportunity and the importance of mobilising supporters ahead of the November 4 municipal elections. Read on tinyurl.com/2p5x9t7k #news #eThekwiniBattle #MKParty #LocalGovernmentElections #ElectoralShowdown

The MK Party's 22-vote victory over the DA in eThekwini’s Ward 110 in April 2025 highlights both the party’s electoral opportunity and the importance of mobilising supporters ahead of the November 4 municipal elections. Read on tinyurl.com/2p5x9t7k #news #eThekwiniBattle #MKParty #LocalGovernmentElections #ElectoralShowdown

A suspect has been arrested in connection with the Pinetown hijacking in which a father opened fire on hijackers, killing one of them. Read on tinyurl.com/mt5dp6he #news #HijackingArrest #DashcamFootage #SuspectArrested #PinetownShootout

OPINION: People facing steep transport and food costs cannot be told to wait years for economic reform. At the same time, relief should be designed as a bridge through a difficult period, not a substitute for the harder work of creating durable jobs. Read on tinyurl.com/rc698msv #FuelRelief #JobsCrisis #EconomicGrowth #EmploymentImperative

South Africa’s housing market is showing signs of becoming more selective rather than stalling, with first-time buyers facing affordability pressures even as banks remain willing to lend. Read on tinyurl.com/4brcd5ft #business #FirstHome #BankingCompetition #HomeLoans #LoanWars

The government is looking to save R4.4 billion a year by offering eligible public servants financial incentives to leave their jobs before or around retirement age. Read on tinyurl.com/4edrnmm4 #news #ExitPackages #PublicServants #RetirementAge #GovernmentPayouts

The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) has managed to reopen roads after protest action broke out in the early hours of Monday. Read on tinyurl.com/mhvcca2c #news #RoadReopens #ProtestAftermath #TrafficDisruption #LenasiaProtests