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The charge sheet reveals new details of the state’s case, including allegations that Bester and his partner Nandipha Magudumana fraudulently claimed dead bodies and paid bribes.

The judgment was delivered in an application by a broad coalition of political parties and labour unions which wanted the court to force the government to end load shedding with immediate effect.

An elderly Bay resident got one of the best gifts on her 80th birthday on Thursday –  the clean-up of a potentially hazardous dumping site next to her home that she said had been a nightmare to live with. Thanks to the swift action by mayoral committee member for Public Health, councillor Thsonono Buyeye, gran Mary Jansen said she can now wake up to a breath of fresh air.  

A foreign national is in police custody after the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and SAPS raided a warehouse in Vryburg in North West on Thursday. The unauthorised warehouse was used to illegally connect cryptocurrency mining equipment to the town's electrical power supply and to manufacture alcohol.

An official at the Standerton Correctional Centre in Mpumalanga has been arrested on allegations of smuggling drugs into the facility.

The National Prosecuting Autority (NPA) says they will no longer charge the accused in the Thabo Bester case with murder after further evidence was presented by the Investigating team. A spokesperson for the NPA in the Free State Phaladi Shuping says prosecutors can only bring charges based on the evidence presented in court.

Some South Africans are calling for Britain to return the world’s largest diamond, known as the Star of Africa, which is set in the royal sceptre that King Charles III will hold at his coronation on Saturday.

Police in Brandfort in the Free State have arrested a suspect on suspicion of murder after an elderly butcher was stabbed to death outside his business on Tuesday. Spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle says in the late afternoon the 70-year-old Lambertus Lochner went to his butchery to check in on business when he confronted a man stealing cables.

The National Assembly (NA) has approved the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development on the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill [B1 - 2023] to amend section 6 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996.