Thursday, 29 October 2026

Police want a Durban High Court interdict restricting March and March leader Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma from protesting in several city areas, citing violence, property damage and a foreign national's death.

A Soweto teacher accused of raping a Grade 4 pupil in a school toilet on 8 October will spend five more nights in custody before his bail application, after his new lawyer sought a postponement.

Western Cape authorities are stepping up intelligence work after at least nine people were shot, three fatally, at taxi ranks this week in a surge of rival taxi violence in Cape Town.

Junior Mining Council president Fred Arense says illegal mining arrests have reached close to 30,000 but only seven convictions followed, and the bosses running the networks remain largely untouched.

Tourism arrivals fell in August and September, largely because visitors from the rest of the continent are staying away, which the host links to negative publicity around June 30 and perceived hostility to foreigners.