Saturday, 10 October 2026

President Ramaphosa says withdrawing the directive on processing asylum seekers is not contempt of court, but intended to allow proper assessment before implementing the Constitutional Court ruling.

KZN police have identified several Durban hotspots where protest action could flare up again, after two days of violent anti-undocumented immigrant protests saw more than a dozen vehicles torched and houses looted.

Police are hunting a suspect who shot dead three people at a grocery store in northern KwaZulu-Natal; he is reportedly a former employee who had gone to an internal disciplinary hearing.

The South African Council of Churches says it cannot be business as usual after a wave of violence against women and children, including the stabbing deaths of 14-year-old twins in Mamelodi West.

The Free State High Court has sentenced 26 accused to lengthy jail terms for stealing Transnet copper cables and damaging essential infrastructure on the Springfontein line.