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• News24 | Edumarks allegedly sells 2024 matric results for R99.90, minister warns of possible breach

  Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube says the Hawks and the State Security Agency are investigating a potential breach concerning the release of the 2024 matric results.

• News24 | Former spy boss and first negotiator for a democratic SA, Dr Niël Barnard, dies at 75

  Dr Niël Barnard, first negotiator for a democratic South Africa, has died at the age of 75.

• News24 | Umalusi gives green light for release of 2024 matric results

  Exams quality assurer Umalusi has given the green light for the release of the 2024 National Senior Certificate exam results.

• News24 | More than 300 racism-related cases reported to human rights commission in just one year

  The South African Human Rights Commission received more than 300 racism-related complaints in just one year. It recorded 297 racism-related complaints in 2013/14.

• News24 | North West teen girl killed: 2 men turn themselves over to police after body found in shallow grave

  The body of a teenage girl has been found in a shallow grave in Matlhako 2 Village in Potchefstroom in the North West.

• News24 | Business dispute turns into alleged kidnapping saga between Pretoria businessmen

  An internal discord between influential business figures has spiralled into chaos, culminating in three people, including a child, being kidnapped.

• News24 | Matric 2024: Cricket sensation Kwena Maphaka hopes for distinctions in History and English

  As private school pupils wait with bated breath for their matric results on Monday afternoon, left-arm fast bowling sensation Kwena Maphaka is hoping to bag distinctions in History and English.

• News24 | Man in custody for mass shooting that left eight dead in Mpumalanga

  One person has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left eight people dead in Mpumalanga over the weekend.

• News24 | Taking the heat off: last 2 months of 2024 bring Western Cape a 12% wildfire decrease

  Firefighters have spent hundreds of hours extinguishing blazes in parts of the Western Cape, but the good news is that there were fewer fires over the last two months compared to the number that broke out over the same two-month period the previous year.

• News24 | Monday's weather: Heavy rainfall, storm warnings issued across several provinces

  The South African Weather Service has issued multiple severe weather alerts for Monday, warning of disruptive rainfall, severe thunderstorms, and extreme fire danger conditions across various provinces.

• News24 | Five-star flop: Crime Intelligence bosses splurge R22.7 million for luxury hotel amid budget cuts

  The police's Crime Intelligence (CI) division has splurged R22.7 million of its secret funds to purchase a 24-bedroom luxury boutique hotel in Pretoria North – while some officers are holding meetings in fast-food restaurants and using their cars as offices.

• News24 | Brain strain: Thousands of SA schools still without libraries, laboratories and computer centres

  As South African schools open for the new academic year on Wednesday, public interest organisations and education experts have expressed serious concerns over the shortage of libraries, laboratories and computer centres.

• News24 | 'It's not a Mapaila decision': SACP resolute about going solo as it wishes ANC happy birthday

  In deciding to go solo in next year's municipal elections, the SACP is merely exercising its independence, according to its deputy national chairperson.

• News24 | Fraser, SSA's R9 billion in missing assets: Evidence was wrong, says Zondo - it was R9 million

  Former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has admitted that State Capture Inquiry evidence that State Security Agency assets worth R9 billion were recorded as missing during then spy boss Arthur Fraser's tenure was erroneous.

• News24 | N2 traffic disrupted by vegetation fire as firefighters work overnight

  A still-raging vegetation fire along the N2 in Cape Town on Sunday night has led to poor visibility for motorists and parts of the national road being closed to traffic.

• News24 | Dead on impact: 2 children, woman die after motorist ploughs into 5 people in Mpumalanga

  Three pedestrians, including two children, were killed when a motorist ploughed into five people on the D2945 Road between Magudu and Mgobodzi on Sunday morning.

• News24 | Judicial tribunal finds Judge Nana Makhubele guilty of gross misconduct

  A judicial conduct tribunal has found Judge Nana Makhubele - who chaired the interim board of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) after being appointed as a judge in Gauteng - guilty of gross misconduct.

• News24 | Limpopo downpours: 13 drownings, road closures, hospital and over 400 households damaged

  Thirteen people have drowned, a hospital and over 400 households have been damaged, and multiple road closures have been reported following heavy downpours in Limpopo.

• News24 | WATCH | Cape Town constable shot, killed after responding to robbery

  A police officer was shot and killed after responding to a robbery in Mfuleni, Cape Town, on Sunday morning.

• News24 | 'An increasingly violent country': 9 000 killed in mass shootings in SA since 2019, reveals Mchunu

  Around 9 000 people were killed in mass shootings or, by the police's definition, "multiple murder incidents" between 2019 and 2023 in South Africa.