Vodacom 'Please call me' service inventor Nkosana Makate is confident his case is solid and that the ConCourt will bring the R9.4m matter to finality.

Gauteng finance and economic development MEC Lebogang Maile says officials will have to work within the 21 days granted by the president to help spaza shops with registration. Maile was briefing the media on the provincial government’s strategy to help spaza shop owners to register their businesses. The MEC outlined the requirements for successful registration for business owners, both local and foreign.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says spaza shops implicated in the deaths of children from food poisoning must be closed with immediate effect

Police say they will not go underground and endanger their lives to rescue as many as 4,000 illegal miners in North West as those underground are said to be armed.

EFF leader Julius Malema says he’s outgoing president of the party rubbishing claims that he is a “dictator”. If he is not re-elected in leadership next month Malema will go back to farming.

EFF leader Julius Malema says MKP president Jacob Zuma is inviting him to a fight and he is not scared.

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The Presidency says Durban and its beaches are ready to welcome thousands of tourists ahead of the festive season.

Water and sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina says South Africans are using too much water, adding the country's water is safe to drink.

The Pretoria high court has ruled that one of the five men accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Mthobisi Mncube, be transferred from C-Max prison to a facility closer to his place of origin or any maximum-security centre that may be convenient. The court however dismissed Fisokuhle Ntuli's application to be moved out of solitary confinement. The duo are on trial with three other accused for the murder Meyiwa in Vosloorus in 2014.

“We’re intervening,” says Deputy President Paul Mashatile as children die of poisoning allegedly sold by spaza shops, saying the government must not be too lazy to regulate food.

MK Party leader Jacob Zuma claims Western countries weakened the ANC so it could be helped by other parties to govern.

The home affairs department says it will criminally charge Chidimma Adetshina and her mother for identity fraud after they failed to justify their documents.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the DA is disrespecting the ANC and the president will do what home affairs minister Leon Schreiber wants “when pigs fly”.

Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi confirmed a toxicology report has revealed the organophosphate Terbufos caused the deaths of six children in Naledi, Soweto, earlier this month.  Motsoaledi, other ministers led by the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure (NatJoints), held a media briefing on Monday as part of government’s response to recent incidents of food poisoning in the country. 

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa described party “careerists”, ill-discipline and factionalism as the biggest threats to the party. He told members the party needs to do introspection as it has become its own worst enemy.

Police say more arrests in the mass murder of 18 people in Lusikisiki last month are imminent as they continue to search for more suspects and, ultimately, the mastermind behind the tragedy. Currently five men have been arrested in connection with the murders. Police minister Senzo Mchunu and national police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola were briefing the media on updates on the investigation on Thursday.

Quizzed by a DA MP on whether he was going to resign after his “failures”, minister Blade Nzimande retorted that apartheid would not return.

During his maiden Budget speech in 2019, former Finance Minister Tito Mboweni introduced an Indigenous Aloe Plant, which remains one of his most memorable addresses.This speech exemplified his unwavering belief in the resilience of South Africans.

Public protector Kholeka Gcaleka has accused Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s husband David Skosana of threatening the chapter 9 institution’s CEO Thandi Sibanyoni over the payment of Mkhwebane's gratuity. More on timeslive.co.za

EFF leader Julius Malema says ANC secretary-general is “a sellout of note, always ready to destroy his own in defence of white supremacists”, adding that President Cyril Ramaphosa was deliberate in not putting his signature on the GNU agreement. More on timeslive.co.za

ActionSA’s Nasiphi Moya has been elected as Tshwane's new mayor. She received 122 votes, while the DA's former mayor Cilliers Brink received 86. This was announced on Wednesday during a special council meeting.

SA Communist Party general secretary Solly Mapaila says with the government of national unity (GNU) “our country is back in the hands of the Boers” and the GNU is unjustifiable.

Security and law enforcement agencies are monitoring a nationwide strike over “anger regarding prevailing economic crises”.