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The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, which will be tabled on Wednesday in Parliament, will get a mini boost from the government of national unity. But it won’t be nearly enough, and SA needs to hope and pray for growth, writes Carol Paton.

‘For those of us who are privileged to have our dads around, they’re also probably the reason where the deep love for cars comes from. Here are five daily vehicles I’d pick for my father to thank him for giving me the love of automobiles,’ writes News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post.

The stabbing of Cubana Green Point’s head bouncer, allegedly by Nafiz Modack and two associates around the time of a bloodly nightclub security dispute, came under the spotlight in the Charl Kinnear murder trial in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday.

The National Assembly’s Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services has been given the green light to ensure that the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) complies with the Public Protector’s remedial action flowing from its investigation into rapist and murderer Thabo Bester’s daring escape.

It seems the MK Party is experiencing internal strife after a recording of party president Jacob Zuma was leaked in which he could be heard reprimanding members and telling them that he was not going to allow factionalism and fighting over positions.

The head of the University of Cape Town’s environmental health division, Professor Andrea Rother, says the pesticide that was responsible for the deaths of six children in Naledi, Soweto, earlier this month needs to be banned in South Africa. And now.

Kirsten Kluyts was attacked and murdered while taking part in an organised running event in Sandton – ensconced within a suburb considered one of the most secured in South Africa – on the morning of 29 October 2023. This News24 visual investigation has used state-of-the-art 3D modelling to retrace Kluyts’ final footsteps, drawing from cellphone triangulation data, CCTV footage, court filings and a silent witness – a tracking tag she wore on her wrist.

Following an acrimonious exit from Orlando Pirates and fallout with chairman Irvin Khoza, Teko Modise’s legacy at the club has always been under a dark cloud. Years after retiring, Modise returned to the club to request a meeting with Khoza to put things into perspective.

Bafana Bafana and Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper Ronwen Williams was honoured as the ninth-best goalkeeper in the world at the prestigious 2024 Ballon d’Or awards, where Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez claimed the Yashin Trophy for an impressive second consecutive year.

Despite being established two decades ago to address the plight of the poor with temporary employment, the Expanded Public Works Programme in the country has been tainted by allegations of sex in exchange for work, nepotism, and political patronage.