Author: staff

Sea Harvest reported a slip in profit on Tuesday, when the fishing group said a combination of weak hake catch rates, high interest rates, as well as pressure from both prawns and abalone prompted the toughest year it has faced since listing in 2017.

A constable who testified that the kidnapping-accused mother of 7-year-old Joshlin Smith didn’t appear to be worried that her child was missing took the Western Cape High Court back to the scene as he recalled how her mother and officers drove around searching for her.

Nedbank CEO Jason Quinn says he remains cautiously optimistic about growth prospects in 2025 despite ongoing geopolitical uncertainties with corporate lending expected to pick up though growth in household lending will likely remain muted.

In terse responses to parliamentary questions about SA’s deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Defence Minister Angie Motshekga said the South African National Defence Force’s “equipment and supplies are sufficient and well-maintained”.

Teresa Mordoh sat on a hard wooden bench in the hallway of the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court and wept on Monday, after the man whom her son, Julio Mordoh, had accused of molesting him, made his first appearance on charges of abusing another boy.

For more than five years, sewerage and water infrastructure has been left to collapse across Gauteng’s Emfuleni Local Municipality, causing sewage to gush from broken municipal pipes into residents’ homes, streets and into the Vaal River. In that period, the municipality failed to spend a R640 million infrastructure grant and forfeited it to National Treasury.

Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso is set to visit the KwaKhangelamankengane Royal Palace in KwaNongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, bearing cows as a gesture of ukushweleza (appeasement) to AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini.

Five years ago, the London-based fossil-fuel giant said it would cut its oil and gas output 40% by 2030 while scaling its renewables business. In 2023, BP watered down that transition strategy, and last week it was all but canned, says Nick Hedley.

An Umlazi Visible Policing lieutenant-colonel and a captain in the National Political Killings task team in KwaZulu-Natal have been found guilty of accepting a R120 000 bribe to squash the 2018 murder investigation of a Durban ANC branch leader.

The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has introduced new private CCTV camera rules that require footage to be kept confidential. The rules risk derailing some of the significant strides made using the technology to fight crime in the city, according to the largest private CCTV operator in the province.