[allAfrica] Cape Town -- The Pretoria High Court has granted former Jacob Zuma leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal. This comes after his medical parole was ruled unlawful.

[New Zimbabwe] Reports from South Africa indicate that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration is fighting hard to keep Zimbabweans domiciled in South Africa there despite Tswane threatening to send them packing.

[Daily Maverick] The State Capture Inquiry has lodged yet another postponement request with the High Court.

[Greenpeace] Yesterday, the four environmental and human rights organisations who filed a first urgent interim-interim interdict against Shell to prevent the fossil fuel company from commencing seismic blasting along South Africa's Wild Coast filed a...

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded 15 424 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.

[SAnews.gov.za] Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has lauded the outcomes of the council elections of the 32nd International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Assembly as fair, transparent and without prejudice.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Police Ministry has urged members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) to act decisively whenever confronted by criminals and not to compromise their safety.

[Daily Maverick] The courts have become the battleground for environmental activists, who are trying to stop Shell's exploration along the Wild Coast.

[Shabait] Asmara, 21 December 2021- Eritrean Ambassador to South Africa and South African countries, Mr. Saleh Omar conducted seminar to nationals residing in Johannesburg and its environs.

[DW] The High Court in South Africa has ruled that the former president be allowed to appeal a decision setting aside medical parole. Last week it was decided he should return to jail.

[TechCrunch] Planet42, a South Africa-based car subscription company that buys used cars from dealerships and rents to customers via a subscription model, has raised $30 million in equity and debt.

[Daily Maverick] There is a widespread perception that people do not want to get vaccinated against Covid-19. While this may be true in certain communities, in many historically underserved areas of the Western Cape, the challenge is access to vaccin...

[SAnews.gov.za] Kwazulu -- Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has called on men to be the bedrock of society by supporting the agenda of generation equality, while also supporting women empowerment.

[SAnews.gov.za] Government will officially launch the application process for operators to access the Taxi Relief Fund next year.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Special Tribunal has dismissed with costs an application by businessman Hamilton Ndlovu to have the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) review proceedings against him and his associates stopped in the tribunal.

[Daily Maverick] Two years ago, Devil's Peak and Vredehoek, two adjacent suburbs in Cape Town's City Bowl, were as socially fractured as the rest of South Africa, but a unique approach is turning people who live in formal housing and those who live o...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Gauteng Traffic Police's High-Speed Unit has arrested 18 drivers for allegedly speeding excessively on Gauteng roads.

[SAnews.gov.za] The State Capture Commission says it expects to hand over its report in three tranches over the next few months.

[Govt of SA] Municipal officials and a civilian arrested for tender fraud and corruption in Northern KwaZulu-Natal

[SAnews.gov.za] All the National Senior Certificate scripts that were affected in the storm that damaged a marking centre in Thaba-Nchu in the Free State have now been accounted for.

[UCT] A young mother in Philippi sits nursing her baby while operating a foot-cranked washing machine. Across the city, a student in digs is studying for a test while pedalling away to get his week's washing done. And in an off-grid home beyond the u...

[SAnews.gov.za] The Police Ministry has commended the zero-tolerance to criminality and illegality adopted by the Western Cape during the festive season.

[SAnews.gov.za] Three Isimangaliso Wetland Park officials will spend Christmas in prison after they were arrested for R100 million tender fraud and corruption in the KwaZulu-Natal government entity.

[SAnews.gov.za] KwaZulu-Natal is now the epicentre of COVID-19 after the majority (or 2 496) new infections were detected in the province on Monday.

[SAnews.gov.za] Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula says the process to address the dire state of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) is firmly on track and significant progress has been made in a number of areas.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) has confirmed that it is in the process of finalising all processes for the payment of gratuity to all the qualifying non-returning former councillors.

[Daily Maverick] Clanwilliam in the Western Cape is seeing an increase in dogs dying from canine distemper virus and animal welfare organisations are battling to keep up with the number of animals that need to be put to sleep or buried.

[Parliament of South Africa] For a soundbite from Parliament Spokesperson Moloto Mothapo, please click: https://iono.fm/e/1138870

[SAnews.gov.za] The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, has welcomed the increase in government funding for research and development (R&D) activities.

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa has ended a week of self-isolation which followed his positive test for COVID-19 on 12 December 2021.