Domestic

A woman has been taken to hospital after she was injured during a robbery at Lakeside Mall in Benoni, east of Johannesburg. A group of 15 armed robbers stormed the mall in broad daylight and threatened employees with firearms.

Annual consumer inflation jumped to 7.4% in June from 6.5% in May, the highest in 13 years according to Statistics South Africa

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says it has arrested 16 police officers for the death of a man in custody, the first major breakthrough in several cases of alleged brutality during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The Public Protector of South Africa says she will be invoking its subpoena powers after refusing to grant a further extension to President Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala saga.

A young Gauteng schoolboy drowned while taking part in a soccer tournament overseas.  The National Department of Sport, Arts, and Culture (DSAC), and Gauteng provincial authorities have confirmed that the 11-year-old Kabelo Masalesa from Alexandra, drowned in a swimming pool during his soccer team’s visit to Palestine.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has joined South Africans in paying tribute to well-known author, poet, and activist, Donato “Don” Materra, who has died at the age of 87.

Energy regulator Nersa has been ordered by the High Court in Pretoria to publish Eskom’s tariff application for 2023/24 on or before 1 August and make a determination by 24 December.

Members of a national multi-disciplinary team targetting illegal mining, have arrested 97 people and a 62-year-old-old farm owner in Heidelberg in Gauteng.

South African National Parks says an employee from one of its concessionaires in Kruger National Park is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a leopard on Sunday.