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A second witness has taken the stand at the Durban High Court in the trial of seven men linked to the murders of rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes and businessman Tebello "Tibz" Motsoane. The witness who is a  South African Police Service sergeant told the court that, in April 2023, police arrested accused number three, Siyanda Eddie Myeza, and another man in Umlazi for allegedly being in possessio...

Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi says the country is ready for the 2026 year-end national examinations. He has called on political parties and other sectors of society to minimise disruptions at schools serving as examination centres and urged everyone to support candidates during this critical period. Rakometsi was earlier briefing the media on the state of readiness of the public and private assessmen...

The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) has launched its 2026 COALITIONS BAROMETER. The barometer include data sets on coalition formations, termination, party roles, coalition typology, governance outcomes and more. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Researcher in the Humanity faculty at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), Laurence Caromba...

Eskom says its financial and operational recovery is beginning to take a structural shape, giving the power utility a stronger platform to drive economic reform and adapt to a changing electricity market. Eskom appeared before Parliament's Electricity and Energy Portfolio Committee to table its annual report for the 2025/26 financial year, reporting a 30-point-three-billion-rand profit. The utilit...

With less than four weeks to go before election day, the IFP took its election campaign to Denver Hostel in Johannesburg yesterday. The party's KwaZulu-Natal chairperson and KZN Premier, Thami Ntuli, together with IFP Johannesburg mayoral candidate, Mlungisi Mabaso, have urged residents to come out in large numbers and vote for the IFP in the City of Johannesburg. Ntuli says his party should be ju...

For families living in informal settlements, heavy rain can bring a familiar worry: leaking roofs, flooded floors and another night spent trying to keep the water out. Across South Africa, thousands of people are still waiting for decent housing. In Cape Town, questions about where homes should be built and how quickly projects can be delivered have come into sharp focus ahead of the Local Governm...

The majority of members of the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system have agreed that the testimony of self-proclaimed political fixer, Brown Mogotsi, cannot be trusted and admitted in the final report without further scrutiny. This emerged during the deliberations of the committee's draft report. Yesterday...

Banyana Banyana meet Madagascar on Friday in their first qualifying match for the 2028 Women's Football at the Olympic Games. Both legs will be played in Bloemfontein with the return leg on Tuesday. It's a simple two-leg knockout competition with the final two sides booking their places in Los Angeles. SAfm's sports Anchor Jon Gericke Has more 

This Wednesday, SAfm anchor Sakina Kamwendo once again spoke to  ABSA's Investment Analyst Motheo Maphosa, for the latest market update.

The bail application of suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya has been postponed to next week Tuesday by the Randburg Magistrate's Court. The court heard an affidavit by Sibiya's wife, Sizakele Dlamini. This after Investigating Officer Ndlovu concluded her cross examination. Sibiya faces multiple charges, including the alleged sexual grooming of a sixte...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to officially launch the CSIR's FuturePharma facility in Pretoria today. The facility is aimed at boosting South Africa's capacity to develop and manufacture medicines locally, including active pharmaceutical ingredients. For further discussion Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Chief Researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Jenny-Lee...

Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says load reduction has been eliminated in seven of South Africa's nine provinces, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal still facing challenges. Ramokgopa briefed the media saying government is working with municipalities to expand electricity infrastructure and ensure there is enough capacity to meet growing demand. He says addressing illegal connec...

Trade union federation COSATU is staging marches and pickets across the country today to mark International Day for Decent Work. In Gauteng, workers will march to the mayor's offices and Massmart stores in Johannesburg and Tshwane, where they will deliver memorandums of demands. COSATU says workers are facing rising living costs, unstable incomes, retrenchments, non-compliance with the minimum wag...

Anti-illegal immigration activists are threatening to halt asylum application processing at the Department of Home Affairs' Refugee Reception Centre on Che Guevara Road in Durban. This follows a Constitutional Court ruling that South Africa's asylum system must reopen to new applicants. In light of the ruling, Home Affairs says Refugee Reception Offices  are now accepting applications from ev...

The political contest for control of Sol Plaatje Municipality in Kimberley is heating up, with parties like the Sol Plaatje Service Delivery Forum positioning themselves as serious players ahead of the local government elections. The party, led by councillor Dennis Pienaar, will contest 33 wards in the Sol Plaatje Municipality. Keith Sayster filed this report...

Police say the owner of a house where they uncovered what they believe is a drug laboratory during a raid in Scheerpoort, near Hartbeespoort Dam in the North West, is part of the investigation. The owner had apparently leased the property to the suspects. Four suspects have been arrested and four firearms — including a rifle and three handguns — have been seized. The suspects are a 39-...

Democratic Alliance Eastern Cape leader, Andrew Whitfield, has announced the party's mayoral candidates in the four municipalities in the Eastern Cape, where the ANC failed to submit their Ward candidate and PR candidate list to the IEC on time. The announcement of candidates in Ngquza Hill, Sundays Rver Valley, Port St Johns and Walter Sisulu municipalities is the party's strategic move to topple...

The South African Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Review notes that the destruction of oil refineries amid the ongoing geopolitical tensions will keep fuel prices elevated long after peace is restored.  Its comments come as South Africans contend with higher fuel prices which have seen a litre of petrol climbing to around 30-rands today (Wednesday 7 October).  The bank has noted – w...

Police say investigations are continuing after a suspected drug laboratory was uncovered at a plot in Scheerpoort, near Hartbeespoort Dam, in the North West. Four suspects, including a 39-year-old Zimbabwean national and three women aged between 23 and 29, were arrested. Police seized four firearms, including a rifle and three handguns, as well as ammunition. Officers also found processed drugs, a...

Bail has been denied for accused number one, Regan Collis, and accused number two, Jamal Meyer, in the Boksburg Magistrate's Court in Ekurhuleni. Accused number three, Elvino Crafford, and accused number four, McFoolen Ford, have each been granted five-thousand-rand bail. The four are facing charges linked to the killing of two anti-gang police officers and two women in Reiger Park in August. They...

For the first time in years, all asylum seekers, including people who entered South Africa unlawfully or have no visa, are being given access to the asylum system. The Department of Home Affairs will no longer turn away people seeking asylum simply because they entered South Africa illegally or do not have the required immigration documents. To discuss this further Bongiwe Zwane spoke to  &nb...

The 1st test between South Africa and Australia starts on Friday in Durban. The backroom staff have been working hard on their analysis of the Ozzie bowlers as batting coach, Ashwell Prince. SAfm's Sports Anchor Jon Gericke has more 

The National Taxi Alliance (NTA) is locked in an escalating crisis with the government over record-breaking fuel price hikes. Motorists are set to pay more at the pump from midnight.  According to the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources the price of petrol is set to rise between 3-rand-12-cent and 3-rand-33-cents per litre depending on the grade. The price of diesel is expected to i...

The in-camera testimony of Feroz Khan scheduled for today, has been postponed. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry says Khan is not in a position to testify following the shooting involving his family member last night. The Madlanga Commission spokesperson Jeremy Michaels says Khan's testimony will be rescheduled, although a new date has not yet been determined. For the latest Bongiwe Zwane spoke t...

Life insurers in South Africa have flagged a sharp increase in cases where people are allegedly killed so beneficiaries can collect insurance payouts. This is the feedback from the National Financial Ombud Scheme (NFO), which has warned about so-called "money for murder" cases. In these cases, beneficiaries are accused of orchestrating or participating in the deaths of policyholders to gain access...