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The 43-year-old man arrested in connection with the disappearance of murdered schoolboy Miguel Louw is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, KwaZulu-Natal Police said. Mohammed Ebrahim was arrested three days after Louw disappeared on July 17. Louw’s body was discovered in abandoned bushes in Phoenix north …

More than four months ago the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa asking him to uphold a promise made in 2014 for a moratorium on farm evictions. Ramaphosa has not yet responded, GroundUp reports. In November 2014, Ramaphosa, who was deputy president at the time, …

One of the 19 men arrested in a case involving explosive devices being placed in and around Durban in July – which police believe is linked to the deadly mosque attack in Verulam in May – was granted R100,000 bail at the Verulam Magistrate’s Court this afternoon. The state also …

It has been reported that thirty-five instances of sexual abuse are currently under investigation by the Catholic church in South Africa. Precious Blood Sister Hermenegild Makoro, the secretary general of the Southern African Catholic Bishop’s Conference, told the Mercury newspaper that the cases relate to priests preying mostly on young …

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday rejected reports that he was aware of wide-scale looting at VBS Mutual Bank and had failed to act. In a statement, Ramaphosa calls the allegations “baseless and unsubstantiated”. “President Ramaphosa has no knowledge of any meeting where he is said to have met any person …

A taxi driver and serial rapist convicted on 43 counts on Monday was given “homework” to think about how he plans to convince the court not to give him a life sentence during his next appearance in the South Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge on Tuesday. Lebogang Gift …

The rand strengthened further on Monday after Moody’s Investors Service held off on its ratings review of South Africa on Friday. By 10:04 the local unit was trading 0.41% firmer at R14.45 against the US dollar, despite the dollar firming somewhat on risk-off sentiment. Last week, the rand rebounded sharply …

MyCiti bus drivers in Cape Town have embarked on an “illegal or wildcat strike” on Monday morning but it is not yet clear what their demands are, City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for transport Brett Herron said. Most routes were affected by the actions of drivers employed by …

An argument escalated into a backyard shooting at a toddler’s birthday party in South Texas, leaving four men dead and a fifth man wounded, authorities said on Sunday. The shooting happened at a child’s first birthday party on Saturday afternoon in Taft, 19km north of Corpus Christi, the Texas Department …

A woman died and three other people were injured, one critically and the two others seriously, when a house caught alight in Mogale City on the West Rand in the early hours of Sunday morning, paramedics said. Netcare 911 paramedics responded shortly before 1am to reports of a house fire …