Tuesday, 10 November 2026

Stats SA says 35.7% of people aged 15 to 24 are neither working, studying nor training, about 3.7 million young people, up 1.8 percentage points on the same period last year.

Alleged crime kingpin Vusimuzi Matlala told the Madlanga Commission he handed former deputy police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya 500,000 rand in the basement of the State Theatre in Pretoria, allegedly toward Sibiya's son's wedding.

Matlala later alleged that IDAC investigators moved him from C-Max prison at about 2am to a Sheraton hotel and a McDonald's, and said he gave his earlier testimony while heavily medicated.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has offered to step aside in the Johannesburg mayoral race if the DA's Helen Zille also withdraws, and ActionSA confirmed the letter is authentic before coalition talks with the DA on Thursday.