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South African residential vacancies surged by over 50% between the first and second quarters of 2024 due to a constrained consumer environment in the lower end of the market, as well as seasonal factors affecting holiday and student accommodation.
Additional security measures, including the installation of surveillance cameras and heightened monitoring of bridges, will be explored urgently, after a Pietermaritzburg woman was killed when a battery was thrown from a bridge on the N3 near the Pavilion Shopping Centre in Westville, KwaZulu-Natal.
Correctional services staff knew within weeks of Facebook rapist and killer Thabo Bester’s fake suicide that he had escaped from prison, but they delayed opening a criminal case for six months, a Public Protector investigation has found.
Chief Justice Mandisa Maya has told the MK Party’s lawyers that the Judicial Service Commission “resolved by majority vote” to continue with its interviews without John Hlophe next week, despite the party’s threats of legal action and protest.
The Supreme Court of Appeal struck from the roll former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s appeal against the Western Cape High Court’s dismissal of her application to remove the chairperson of the Section 194 Committee that handled her impeachment, and a DA MP who served on that committee.
The Supreme Court of Appeal struck from the roll former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s appeal against the Western Cape High Court’s dismissal of her application to remove the chairperson of the Section 194 Committee that handled her impeachment, and a DA MP who served on that committee.
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says that his ministry will put forward a “policy intervention” that will protect Eskom without the 36% electricity tariff hike that the utility asked the energy regulator for in the 2026 financial year.
The “vague” allegations against him are all part of a witch hunt and will never survive any formal investigation, beleaguered Hoërskool Waterkloof principal Chris Denysschen has hit back after a group of teachers filed a fresh grievance against him last week.
The removal of a tax exemption for private schools from January is an important part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s drive to raise revenues for expenditure on ailing public services and to plug a hole in public finances. But it’s a political gamble.
The Press Ombudsman has dismissed the Sunday Independent newspaper and Independent Online’s (IOL) application to appeal its finding in connection with an abusive opinion piece they published, which likened News24 legal journalist Karyn Maughan to Nazi film propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.