MOVE SA has announced Patrick Moraka as its mayoral candidate for the City of Ekurhuleni ahead of the 2026 Local Government Elections, promising a focus on service delivery, jobs and accountable governance.

Dr Danny Jordaan has been re-elected as president of the South African Football Association (SAFA) after securing 157 votes against Sandile Zungu’s 82 at Saturday’s Elective Congress.

Three cashiers have been arrested at the Marble Hall Driving Licence Testing Centre in Limpopo after allegedly being caught with cash hidden in their underwear and bosom in connection with a probe into learner’s licence corruption.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged BRICS governments and businesses to move beyond boosting trade and channel investment into manufacturing, mineral beneficiation, infrastructure and technology to ensure greater value is created within the Global South.

ANC NEC member Andile Lungisa has reportedly approached the High Court in a bid to overturn his omission from the party’s proportional representation list for Nelson Mandela Bay, escalating the ANC’s growing candidate-list crisis ahead of the local government elections.

Four Lesotho nationals have been handed a combined 41 years of direct imprisonment for stealing, damaging and tampering with City Power infrastructure in Roodepoort.

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is preparing to issue a Request for Information for the redevelopment of Pretoria’s dormant Telkom Towers precinct, a project expected to cost up to R2.2 billion and create more than 5,300 direct construction jobs.

A Zimbabwean national has been arrested in Hillbrow after police allegedly uncovered an operation producing fraudulent South African identity cards, with 22 blank smart ID cards and a card-printing machine seized.

Six Nigerian nationals accused of defrauding more than 100 women in the United States of over R100 million through alleged online romance scams are set to be extradited from South Africa to the US.

The corruption trial involving former Crime Intelligence head Richard Mdluli and his co-accused has been postponed to 15 September as the defence challenges the validity of search warrants issued during the investigation.

Rooigrond Maximum Security Correctional Centre escapee Edward Khomotso Madiba has been rearrested after escaping from the North West prison on 6 September 2026. Correctional Services is investigating the possibility of an inside job.

Former National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption and money-laundering case has been postponed to 16 September after she was unable to attend court due to ill-health.

Four senior officials in the Department of Correctional Services, including its Chief Financial Officer, have been suspended pending an investigation into alleged fraud linked to a coal supply tender.

Gauteng has recorded an increase in the number of HIV-positive people remaining on treatment, while more TB patients were also placed on treatment during the 2025/26 financial year, according to the provincial Department of Health.

Two foreign nationals have been arrested after police uncovered an alleged drug laboratory manufacturing Mandrax tablets worth an estimated R100 million at a smallholding in Erasmia, Pretoria.