President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his best wishes to the Muslim community as the holy month of Ramadan starts on Sunday.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation says "justice was most definitely not serviced" following the former president's latest legal defeat after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Zuma's application for leave to appeal.

Humanitarian aid organisation Gift of the Givers is on a mission to hand out 10 000 food parcels to underprivileged areas within the Western Cape as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is set to kick off on Sunday.

Video footage showing pregnant women sleeping on the floor for more than three days at the Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital in Johannesburg has caused outrage.

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Increased levels of crime, particularly gender-based violence and drug dealing, took centre stage as Minister of Police Bheki Cele met with North West residents at the Lonely Park sports ground in Mahikeng over the weekend.

The Hawks seized large quantities of counterfeit washing powder at a manufacturing facility in Springs, Gauteng, on Friday.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA has expressed its disappointment in the City of Cape Town after it reinstated the McLaren Circus permit.

Former state security minister Bongani Bongo and his 11 co-accused will go on trial in November in connection with a R74-million fraud and corruption case.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's quest for a second term as ANC president has received a shot in the arm after his ally Mandla Ndlovu was elected chair of the party in Mpumalanga.

Western Cape authorities issued 6 081 traffic fines worth around R5 million between 22 and 27 March.

Mpumalanga police have offered a reward of R50 000 to anyone with information about the robbery of world-renowned Ndebele artist Dr Esther Nostokana Mahlangu, 87.

The world's economy has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic for the last two years, but towards the end of last year, it started to recover - at long last.

The ANC’s regional elective conference will go ahead this weekend after the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg dismissed an application for an urgent interdict to halt the conference.

Sebokeng residents are living with human excrement on their doorstep as pools of sewage ooze into their homes.

The National Assembly wing, which was razed by a fire on 2 January, has been severely damaged but is unlikely to collapse, according to a preliminary structural engineering assessment.

Sixty-two-year-old Anna Tshose's dream of moving out of a shack and into a house is becoming a reality thanks to donations and the help of a non-governmental organisation.

The battle to lead the ANC in Mpumalanga is a two-person race between two politically familiar faces - former acting provincial chairperson Mandla Ndlovu and former provincial secretary Lucky Ndinisa.

ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile has warned the ANC is facing an existential crisis and also risked losing the 2024 national elections should it continue on its path of disunity.

The conference is the ruling party's first since the Covid-19 outbreak.