The ANC’s regional elective conference will go ahead this weekend after the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg dismissed an application for an urgent interdict to halt the conference.

Sebokeng residents are living with human excrement on their doorstep as pools of sewage ooze into their homes.

The National Assembly wing, which was razed by a fire on 2 January, has been severely damaged but is unlikely to collapse, according to a preliminary structural engineering assessment.

Sixty-two-year-old Anna Tshose's dream of moving out of a shack and into a house is becoming a reality thanks to donations and the help of a non-governmental organisation.

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The battle to lead the ANC in Mpumalanga is a two-person race between two politically familiar faces - former acting provincial chairperson Mandla Ndlovu and former provincial secretary Lucky Ndinisa.

ANC treasurer-general Paul Mashatile has warned the ANC is facing an existential crisis and also risked losing the 2024 national elections should it continue on its path of disunity.

The conference is the ruling party's first since the Covid-19 outbreak.

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Scientists are trying to save the elusive Clanwilliam sandfish by transplanting fry from threatened rivers into local farm dams.

Development company Knowledge Pele last year was named one of rock band Coldplay's global sustainability affiliates.

Former Bosasa COO-turned-whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi abandoned his application for the courts to review the delay in his fraud case.

The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has dismissed an application for an urgent interdict to halt the ANC's Mpumalanga conference.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was testifying at a South African Human Rights Commission hearing into the unrest, which claimed the lives of more than 340 people and bludgeoned the economy to the tune of R50 billion.

The ANC in Ekurhuleni has described the DA-led coalition government in the municipality as anti-democratic, following a commotion at a council meeting which ended when former mayor Mzwandile Masina was kicked out.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has lodged a court application for an interdict to force the National Assembly speaker to halt her impeachment and prevent President Cyril Ramaphosa from suspending her.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says tribalism and ethnic discrimination were a serious cause for concern during the unrest that broke out in the country in July 2021.

Two unemployed women from KwaNobuhle in Kariega spent a month transforming vacant land littered in piles of rubbish into a neat netball field for young girls from the community.

ANC Women's League president Bathabile Dlamini has been fined R200 000 or four years in prison, with half of either of the two suspended.

The council of the University of Cape Town has voted to appoint Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng as vice-chancellor for a second five-year term.