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Fri, 01 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0200
Will I really see relief at the pump? - Four questions about the fuel levy reduction answered
After the temporary cut in the general fuel levy, overall petrol prices may rise by between 23c and 31c.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:31:00 +0200
Bathabile Dlamini must pay R200,000 fine or go to jail for perjury
ANC Women’s League president Bathabile Dlamini was on Friday sentenced to a R200,000 fine or jail time for perjury.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0200
‘We will similarly escort the ANC out of our lives in 2024’ — 6 key reactions to Ekurhuleni council drama
Here's what those involved, and watching, had to say about the incident. Do you believe them?

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:56:38 +0200
Japan needs more babies, so it’s helping to pay for costly IVF
The wait to see the doctor at Japan’s popular fertility clinic Saint Mother Hospital just got longer.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:54:00 +0200
Why soft-spoken Masemola got the top cop job
A team player who represents everything SA needs in a police boss and who wears his badge with pride.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:47:00 +0200
RECORDED | Bathabile Dlamini sentencing
ANC Women’s League president Bathabile Dlamini is due to be sentenced in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court on Friday after she was convicted of perjury.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:38:39 +0200
As Shanghai expands Covid lockdown, life on hold in city of 26 million
China's commercial hub of Shanghai ground to halt on Friday after the government locked down most of the city's 26 million residents to stop the spread of Covid-19, even as official numbers put local cases falling for the second day in a row.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:24:00 +0200
WATCH LIVE | Electoral Commission interviews for new chair
A panel chaired by chief justice Raymond Zondo will today interview shortlisted candidates for the vacant chair of the Electoral Commission of SA.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 09:06:47 +0200
‘It is a curious conviction and sentence’: Thuli Madonsela weighs in on Sibongile Mani verdict
"I know of no case where the erroneous recipient was considered a criminal and jailed," said Thuli Madonsela.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:29:37 +0200
Here’s what sentence you think Bathabile Dlamini should receive
What sentence do you think Bathabile Dlamini should receive?

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:25:00 +0200
WATCH LIVE | Ramaphosa testifies at SAHRC hearings into July unrest
President Cyril Ramaphosa is on Friday expected to appear before the South African Human Rights Commission national investigative hearings into the July 2021 unrest and looting.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0200
‘She really is an expert on being captured’: Derek Hanekom takes aim at Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla
"Please take this tweet seriously. She really is an expert on being captured. She, her brother and her father have had years of being captured by the Guptas," said Derek Hanekom.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:45:00 +0200
Hawks and US secret services nab alleged online scammers linked to R7.3m fraud
A fraud syndicate which operated out of Johannesburg and swindled a US-based company out of around R7.3m was taken down in raids across Johannesburg on Thursday.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:37:00 +0200
How hijabi heistess was nabbed in action
An iStore customer’s amusing account of a robbery attempt at the branch in Menlyn, Pretoria, on Monday has attracted much mirth on Twitter.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0200
YOUR COVID-19 QUESTIONS ANSWERED | How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected respiratory syncytial virus infections?
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has noted the rise in respiratory syncytial virus cases, detailing its infection patterns since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:41:00 +0200
Day of reckoning for perjurer Bathabile Dlamini as court decides whether she will be jailed or fined
ANC Women's League  members were on Friday expected to descend on the Johannesburg magistrate’s court where their leader, convicted perjurer and former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini, is due to be sentenced.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:35:00 +0200
UKRAINE LIVE UPDATES | Don't throw Russia out of G20, aid group says, with eye on food crisis
Rolling coverage of the situation in Ukraine after the military invasion by Russia.

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:16:00 +0200
The soundtrack of SA, plus five talking points from ‘Vrye Weekblad’
Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:10:00 +0200
KZN man gets life for raping daughter who subsequently contracted HIV
The Madadeni  regional  court  in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday sentenced a 48-year-old man who raped his daughter on several occasions to life imprisonment.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 20:35:00 +0200
Eskom welcomes 20-year sentences for fraudsters who stole R35m
Two men were sentenced to an effective 20 years' jail term each for fraud and corruption that cost Eskom R35m.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 19:22:00 +0200
Bheki Cele 'optimistic, enthusiastic' about working with new commissioner
After strained relationships with the outgoing police commissioner, Khehla Sitole, police minister Bheki Cele on Thursday threw his weight behind the newly appointed Lt-Gen Sehlahle Fannie Masemola.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:00:19 +0200
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana proposes temporary reduction in fuel levy
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Thursday proposed that the general fuel levy should be temporarily reduced by R1.50 per litre.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:26:00 +0200
Hawks and US Secret Service swoop on Joburg fraud syndicate
An alleged fraud syndicate with ties to Nigerian organised crime was dealt a crippling blow as Hawks investigators swooped on addresses across Johannesburg on Thursday.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:09:49 +0200
Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses caught up in 'extremist' law
In the early morning of February 15 2019, armed police and intelligence agents burst into Timofey Zhukov's home in Surgut, an oil town in western Siberia.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:29:34 +0200
Erdogan says Turkey ready in principle to 'act as Ukraine's guarantor'
Nato member Turkey shares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea, has good ties with both and has offered to mediate the conflict.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:17:29 +0200
In Zimbabwe, a women-only gem mine gives abuse survivors new hope
At first glance the Zimbaqua mine in Zimbabwe looks normal: a series of shallow craters dotted with workers in overalls and hard hats toiling to unearth the treasures below.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:12:22 +0200
India electricity shortage in March worst since October coal crisis
India's electricity shortage of 574 million units from March 1 to March 30 is the worst since October 2021, a Reuters analysis of government data showed.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:06:56 +0200
PODCAST | Inside Gauteng's psychiatric healthcare crisis
A TimesLIVE investigation has revealed that some public hospitals in Gauteng are facing a psychiatric healthcare crisis.

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:48:53 +0200
US warned firms about Russia's Kaspersky software day after invasion
The US government began privately warning some American companies the day after Russia invaded Ukraine that Moscow could manipulate software designed by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky to cause harm, according to a senior US official and two ...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:41:08 +0200
No chance of appeal, SCA tells Zuma: Corruption trial set for April 11
The Supreme Court of Appeal has refused to entertain an application by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal against Pietermaritzburg trial court judge Piet Koen’s dismissal of his “special plea” to remove lead prosecutor Billy Downer from his ...



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