News24 | Cape Town urban waste boss cleared amid waste collection collapse

City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for urban waste management Grant Twigg has been cleared of allegations that he breached the councillors' code of conduct and caused fruitless and wasteful expenditure in a failed waste management project. Source

News24 | R50m crystal meth confiscated in Eastern Cape drug bust, truck owner arrested

Drugs worth more than R50 million have been seized in a bust in the Eastern Cape. Source

News24 | KZN mother who beat daughter, 3, with rolling pin then strangled her to be sentenced for murder

A 9-year-old girl tried to stop her mother while she strangled her 3-year-old sister, but the woman was unstoppable as her rage took over - and she killed the toddler. Source

News24 | A year on: Questions about what happened to Joshlin Smith remain unanswered

Last year, Middelpos was a hive of activity as hundreds of residents and police officers descended on the informal settlement in Saldanha Bay day after day in a desperate search for then 6-year-old Joshlin Smith. Source

News24 | This rhino orphan was saved from a prison at two years old. Now she's given birth to five calves

Fifteen years ago, Nana the rhino, then two years old, stood in a pen waiting to be sold and shipped to China. Source

News24 | 'An 18-year-old is still a child': Komani residents want age to marry raised to 21

Residents of Komani and surrounds in the Eastern Cape came out strongly against child marriage at a public hearing on the Marriage Bill, where they beseeched the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs on Tuesday to raise the age at which a person can legally be married to 21. Source

News24 | DEFENCELESS: No planes, no pilots, no flying hours for SA Air Force

SA Air Force pilots and crews are now struggling to make minimum flying hours to keep them sufficiently current and retain their flying licences. Source

News24 | Diary of a broken pipe-dream: Joburg residents endure days of flooding due to repeated bursts

In just four days, the stream gushing down Morris Avenue in Johannesburg became a river and then a dam. Source

News24 | 'Thanks, but no thanks': Ex-ambassador to Argentina Tony Leon is not eyeing Rasool's US post

Former ambassador to Argentina Tony Leon says he is not going to apply his mind to an offer that has not been made. Source

News24 | From TV pundit to fraud accused: How NPA ensured disbarred lawyer finally faced accountability

Acting under a different name and despite having been found guilty of contempt, disbarred attorney Lebohang Mokhele kept defending accused criminals in court - until the NPA had him arrested on Tuesday. Source

News24 | 'He had the keys to the safe': Court clerk charged after R1.1m fine vanishes

The Johannesburg Magistrate's Court became the unlikely venue of a million-rand heist when a "prisoners' friend" appears to have been a bit too friendly with prisoners' fines. Source

News24 | City of Tshwane probing fraud allegations implicating staff in R10m 'ghost account'

An employee from the City of Tshwane's Finance Department was suspended on Tuesday after internal investigations found that he and two of his colleagues may have been involved in fraud involving more than R10 million. Source