Sunday, 15 November 2026

A manhunt is underway in KwaZulu-Natal after a female police station commander, a Lieutenant Colonel, was shot dead during a business robbery in Greytown, Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia says.

Transport officials say irresponsible and drunken driving, with fatigue also a factor, could be to blame for two Eastern Cape head-on collisions that killed seven, including a five-year-old, on Friday and six more on the N2.

Diani Makamu, 27, was crowned Miss South Africa 2026 at the Sandton Convention Centre, beating 11 other finalists and taking home a R1 million cash prize plus a R500,000 Empower Youth Africa impact fund.

The SACP says it is in no rush to enter coalitions in Western Cape hung municipalities, where it holds single council seats in Knysna and Saldanha Bay after the recent local government elections.

Microsoft has restored full service after a global outage that took Outlook, Teams and Copilot offline in at least 74 countries, and is warning users about phishing emails posing as service notifications.