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• News24 | Axed security guards vow to continue sleep-in outside health dept offices until they get jobs back April 26, 2024
  Angry security guards who have been protesting outside the offices of the Gauteng Department of Health following the termination of their month-to-month contracts, say they will continue the fight to get their jobs back.
• News24 | Prove you're trying to earn money to get a grant, says DA as it announces party's economic policy April 26, 2024
  The DA plans to put in place job seekers' grants and do away with the R350 monthly social relief of distress grant if it is put in power - but it says the move will only be viable as long as there is economic growth and sufficient tax revenue to fund it.
• News24 | Kgosi Mampuru II correctional staffer's homes gutted in fire at housing precinct April 26, 2024
  Two homes have been destroyed and four damaged at a Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Facility staff housing precinct in Pretoria.
• News24 | Right to lawyer must 'not be lightly dispensed with', court finds as rehab committal order set aside April 26, 2024
  A Cape Town woman's successful court bid to have her husband involuntarily sent to a drug rehabilitation facility has been set aside in the Western Cape High Court because he did not have a lawyer to speak on his behalf.
• News24 | Gauteng police arrest two suspects for kidnapping of Austrian national in February April 26, 2024
  The suspects who allegedly kidnapped a retired Austrian businessman from Johannesburg Botanical Gardens in February, holding him captive for 50 days, have been arrested.
• News24 | Hartswater farm murders: Second accused denies washing blood from car April 26, 2024
  One of the four defendants on trial for the gruesome murders of Dan Brand, his wife, Breggie, and their daughter Elzabie on 26 July 2020 on a smallholding outside Hartswater, claims he only washed dust from Elzabie’s stolen Mazda CX5, and not blood.
• News24 | WATCH | News24 Leaders Debate: ANC claims 'no tolerance', but corruption-accused top candidates list April 26, 2024
  While the ANC has several corruption-accused leaders high up on its parliamentary lists, it claims to have no tolerance for corruption, which it believes is anti-poor and anti-working class.
• News24 | A tale of two campaigns: How two former presidents seek to canvas votes in ANC vs MK Party battle April 26, 2024
  The battle for control of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal after 29 May is hotting up as two former presidents campaign on opposite sides.
• News24 | 'I have forgiven him': Former Hawks cop on hitman who killed his dad during Modack investigation April 26, 2024
  A former Hawks officer, whose father was murdered outside his home in Melkbosstrand, says he forgives the hitman who killed his father, in an assassination that Nafiz Modack is on trial for.
• News24 | Enyobeni Tavern report: Parents vindicated by the SA Human Rights Commission’s probe April 26, 2024
  Families of the victims of the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy said they have been vindicated by the outcomes of an investigative report into the incident by the South African Human Rights Commission.
• News24 | WATCH | News24 Leaders Debate: IFP, Rise Mzansi vow not to enter coalition deal with ANC April 26, 2024
  The president of the IFP, Velinkosini Hlabisa, vowed to "remove the political party which destroyed everything", and to not betray voters by entering into a coalition agreement with the ANC.
• News24 | WATCH | News24 Leaders Debate: Let voters decide which party must govern, Mashaba tells Steenhuisen April 26, 2024
  ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba cautioned DA leader John Steenhuisen to respect the Constitution and let voters decide who should govern.
• News24 | Tshwane South College awards R5.8m contract without putting it out to open tender April 26, 2024
  The Tshwane South College in Pretoria has been accused of flouting its supply chain management policy after awarding a R5.8 million contract to an existing service provider instead of putting it out on open tender.
• News24 | Equality groups applaud SCA for overturning ruling that foreplay implies 'tacit consent' to sex April 25, 2024
  The SCA reinstated the rape conviction of Loyiso Coko. He was initially found guilty in the Makhanda Regional Court in September 2020, which was then overturned by the high court.
• News24 | ANC asks for leave to appeal cadre deployment contempt ruling April 25, 2024
  The ANC is continuing its court battle to keep its leader's role in cadre deployment during the state capture era secret, despite getting a drubbing in court at every turn.
• News24 | Tragedy at daycare centre: Family of Eastern Cape boy, 3, who drowned in pit toilet demands answers April 25, 2024
  The family of a three-year-old boy who drowned in a pit toilet in Mdantsane, the Eastern Cape, has lambasted the management of the Little Champions Day Care Centre, labelling them careless.
• News24 | 'We will not be doing interviews', says KZN municipality after hiring Zulu king's praise singer April 25, 2024
  The IFP-led Zululand District Municipality has told News24 that it won't doing media interviews about the appointment of AmaZulu king praise-singer Buzetsheni Mdletshe as a "senior arts and culture coordinator".
• News24 | Mom crushed by 'trusted' mechanic's alleged role in Palesa Mofokeng’s murder April 23, 2024
  A grief-stricken Tseleng Mathibela sat in a crowded Vereeniging Regional Court surrounded by friends, relatives, and ANC members to witness the proceedings against her daughter's alleged killers.
• News24 | Do you have any complaints or feedback about News24's content? Here's how to get in touch February 27, 2023
  Any complaints, queries or suggestions about content on News24 may be sent to our public editor George Claassen.
• News24 | WATCH | Beyond Recycling: The Litterboom Project's holistic approach to tackling plastic pollution January 1, 0001
  The Litterboom Project, spearheaded by Cameron Service, is making waves in South Africa by tackling plastic pollution at its river sources.