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A Johannesburg metro police officer allegedly seized R1.5 million in cash during a traffic stop and disappeared instead of escorting the businessman to a police station and was later arrested and convicted, Southern African health leaders meeting in Durban pushed for regional financing and pooled procurement of medicines amid declining foreign aid, and businessman Brown Mogotsi returned to court facing five charges tied to a November 3, 2025 incident.

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Johannesburg public clinics and hospitals are reporting shortages of essential medicines, including diabetes and psychiatric drugs, amid government-cited manufacturing and distribution problems, and Cape Verde President José Maria Neves is expected to win a second term in Sunday’s election, which would give his party full control of government.

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Cape Verde president eyes new term as party builds on legislative win
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Patients report medicine shortages at public clinics as national availability reaches 83.4%
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The uMkhonto weSizwe party is set to meet the ANC this weekend to discuss coalition arrangements, coalition talks between the ANC and the Patriotic Alliance in the Northern Cape have collapsed, and the ANC says all coalition engagements are now centralised nationally.

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MK party urges ANC to 'do the right thing' to avoid death as PA talks collapse
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The ANC’s national executive committee met in Boksburg and, after the party’s vote share fell to 30.8% in the November 4 local elections, avoided calls for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s resignation or the committee’s dissolution and focused on coalition options, while the Modimolle regional court is expected to sentence three men accused of stealing about 9.6 million rand from Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm.

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Ramaphosa ‘is going nowhere’: damaged ANC begins hard bargaining
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The N3 between Cato Ridge and Hammarsdale will close for 35 hours to demolish the Harrison East Bridge, US lawmakers have called former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to testify in December over a scandal involving extramarital affairs and a suspected Chinese spy, and KwaZulu-Natal police are searching for gunmen who killed a station commander and wounded a sergeant near Greytown.

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N3 between Durban and Pietermaritzburg to close for 35 hours this weekend
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US lawmakers summon Nvidia ex-CEO after affair with suspected spy
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Gautengs Department of Human Settlements spent 97% of its 2025/26 budget while meeting only 69% of performance targets, exceeded its housing-construction goal and received a fourth consecutive unqualified audit opinion, and faced resident concerns over outstanding title deeds and delayed projects that it said it would raise with the City of Tshwane on November 25.

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Gauteng Human Settlements spent 97% of budget but missed 31% of targets
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The Department of Employment and Labour reported more than 13,000 foreign nationals working at inspected KwaZulu-Natal workplaces as part of 231,850 nationally, citing enforcement capacity and plans to recruit more inspectors, while ActionSA faces questions over whether its immigration rhetoric will translate into municipal action amid coalition negotiations.

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More than 13,000 foreign nationals employed at inspected KZN workplaces
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ActionSA: 'DA Lite' to March and March in council?
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A man was arrested in Cape Town over threats against Western Cape Premier Alan Winde, Ventersdorp farmer Donovan Marx was discharged from hospital after a serious farm attack with five suspects arrested, and Treasury is continuing funding cuts for 69 municipalities over financial failures.

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46-year-old arrested for alleged threats against Western Cape's premier Alan Winde
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VIDEO: Donovan Marx celebrates hospital discharge with hymn and loved ones
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The legal dispute over the auction sale of Hangwani Morgan Maumela’s R10.1 million Ferrari continued as he and the MHR Maumela Family Trust prepared to seek leave to appeal the Special Tribunal’s findings on ownership, valuation, and the curator’s authority, while Nicoc acting co-ordinator Dr Ntandazo Sifolo told the Madlanga commission that the body’s February 2025 takeover of Gauteng counter-intelligence operations was aimed at stopping criminal networks, including the alleged Big Five cartel, from infiltrating state institutions.

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A 35-year-old man died in Madhya Pradesh, India, after a crude bomb disguised as a traditional sweet exploded in his mouth, a 46-year-old man was arrested in Cape Town over threatening messages to Western Cape Premier Alan Winde, and a fifth person was charged in Singapore over alleged false representations about the end users of AI servers.

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Man dies after being handed bomb disguised as traditional Indian sweet
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Man arrested over chilling threats involving Western Cape premier Alan Winde
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A man was arrested in Cape Town over threatening messages allegedly targeting Premier Alan Winde, pre-sentencing proceedings continued in Modimolle after convictions in the Phala Phala theft case amid magistrate criticism of the investigation, and a newspaper column reported that UK fuel and rail costs are substantially higher than in South Africa.

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Threats against Western Cape Premier Alan Winde lead police to Kensington home in 3am raid
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Level two water restrictions took effect immediately in Tshwane with tiered tariffs and monitoring as Gauteng ordered Rand Water-supplied municipalities to enforce restrictions, a psychologist warned that anorexia nervosa can cause irreversible organ damage and sudden death, and Business Unity South Africa urged firms to treat air quality as an economic problem, commissioning two CSIR studies.

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Tshwane level 2 water restrictions: Here's what residents must know about new tariffs
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Anorexia is life-threatening and can cause organ damage
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Psychologists warn that eating disorders in men and boys are frequently unrecognised and can present as excessive exercise or muscle-focused behaviour, while in KwaZulu-Natal a police colonel was shot dead and a sergeant wounded during a pursuit of suspects in a violent business robbery that ended with two suspects killed and one arrested.

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It's not only women - men are also at risk for eating disorders
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Senior KZN police officer gunned down in Greytown shootout as manhunt launches
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A tenant in a long-running dispute with his condominium association in Washington’s Logan Circle shot dead his building manager and wounded four others before killing himself, a doctor warned that anorexia is a psychiatric illness whose prolonged malnutrition can cause fatal heart strain and permanent organ damage, and eight people, including two children, died when a Brooklyn building collapsed into a neighboring excavation site that had previously been issued a stop-work order.

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Disgruntled tenant shoots building manager dead, wounds four in Washington
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The auditor-general flagged invalid student IDs, duplicate records, R15.8 million in irregular expenditure and R1.28 million in rental costs at the Education, Training and Development Practices Seta, which denied duplicate funding and said it was correcting records and investigating, while the South Gauteng High Court dismissed a Gauteng couple’s late bid to stop Standard Bank from selling their Roodepoort home over a mortgage debt exceeding R3.7 million and ordered them to pay the bank’s legal costs.

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Seta funds exposed to risk as audit flags dodgy ID numbers
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The Madlanga Commission heard that President Cyril Ramaphosa was briefed six days before KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s July 6 briefing on the arrests of senior Crime Intelligence officials, whose fraud and corruption charges were later withdrawn, and Mkhwanazi alleged that the Big Five cartel had infiltrated key state institutions and that Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and former deputy police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya interfered with investigations, while intelligence official Ntandazo Sifolo warned against political interference in police operations.

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Madlanga Commission: Ramaphosa briefed on Crime Intelligence arrests before Mkhwanazi briefing
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Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo says avian botulism is the likely cause of recent waterbird deaths at Zoo Lake pending laboratory tests and has advised keeping pets and children away from the water, while President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a high-level delegation to California from November 15 to 21 to engage Silicon Valley technology companies, investors, and researchers on artificial intelligence investment, infrastructure, skills development, and the future of work.

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JCPZ confirms avian botulism likely cause of Zoo Lake bird deaths
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SARS is warning taxpayers about fraudulent calls and messages impersonating the revenue service or Commissioner to demand payment or obtain confidential information, advises verifying any tax debt through eFiling or the MobiApp and avoiding unsolicited links or payments, and urges reporting suspicious communications to its phishing email address or anti-corruption hotline.

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How to spot a fake SARS debt call: What taxpayers need to know
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Sanral asked the Pretoria High Court to extend 31 road maintenance contracts beyond November 30 to avoid service gaps, ten foreign nationals were arrested on allegations they were travelling to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war, and a Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook and Teams for hours.

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Sanral asks court to extend road maintenance contracts
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10 foreigners arrested allegedly on way to fight for Russia
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Microsoft outage drags on for hours, disrupting Outlook, Teams for businesses and governments
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Communities around the Nkomati Nickel Mine have accused African Rainbow Minerals of failing to prioritize locals for jobs and procurement despite Social and Labour Plan and Mining Charter obligations, and the ANC in Rustenburg has lost its entire proportional representation slate after the IEC confirmed it won insufficient votes, leaving senior officials out and opening key roles to newly elected ward councillors.

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Motsepe mine accused of excluding locals from jobs in area
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Poor showing in Rustenburg denies ANC cadres PR seats
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The wife and daughter of a South African killed while fighting for Russia are struggling in Russia amid consular uncertainty, International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola is leading South Africa’s delegation to an African Union financing summit in Accra, and AfriForum’s farm attack day is criticised for coinciding with World Aids Day and deepening racial divisions.

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Family struggles to survive in Russia after husband's death
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SA Pushes for AU financial independence as Lamola heads to key Ghana summit
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Eskom is convening independent power producers, the National Transmission Company, and industry stakeholders at its fourth annual IPP conference on November 12-13 to address grid access and connection constraints, the National Consumer Commission has recalled more than 23,000 Chery and Omoda vehicles over rear-axle and brake-pipe faults while investigating Chery’s reporting of earlier campaigns, and the DA won about 35% of Johannesburg’s vote to the ANC’s 21% with 54.5% turnout, with an analysis attributing the result partly to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s praise of DA-run municipalities.

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The Council of the Left urged the ANC to remove the DA and Freedom Front Plus from the government of national unity as a condition for a coalition, an offer the ANC declined, while the Reserve Bank governor said returning inflation to the 3% target will take longer than expected amid global supply shocks, and the trade department published regulations for a first track-and-trace system covering tobacco, liquor, pharmaceuticals, food and appliances to curb illicit trade.

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Council of the Left urges ANC to drop ‘reactionary forces’
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Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen called for more car parts to be manufactured in South Africa, artists accused a Cape Town gallery of withholding payments and artworks amid the Dalro gallery showcase where Jason Langa won the top award, and a Mpumalanga businessman’s five-year racism case reached the Equality Court.

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Helen Zille election stunts spark action figure collector craze
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Artists accuse Cape Town gallery of withholding payments and artworks
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Johannesburg is forecast to reach 34°C during Gauteng’s second heatwave this summer as emergency services advise hydration and limited midday sun exposure, Gauteng public hospitals face an acute shortage of psychiatric medicines amid safety concerns and supply delays, and a University of Cape Town-led study finds reflective white roof paint can reduce indoor temperatures by three to five degrees Celsius in informal homes.

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Hot weather conditions to continue in Joburg, emergency services warn
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Volkswagen’s Golf 8.5 GTI remains a leading South African hatchback after long-term testing showed ergonomic and infotainment upgrades, Srila Roy’s new book Dissonant Intimacies addresses her 2026 suspension over a viral tweet and decolonial feminist politics, and Gauteng’s e-government department faces a High Court challenge from Brilliant Telecommunications over a nearly R200 million technology contract awarded to Techex Digital Solutions.

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Golf GTI diary: A proudly South African wedding crasher
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Srila Roy confronts xenophobia, identity and the future of SA universities
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South Africa’s intelligence leadership warned that organized criminal syndicates have deeply infiltrated the state and compromised the criminal justice system, recent local government elections showed voters increasingly prioritizing governance over traditional party loyalties, and the National Prosecuting Authority secured a court order to seize three vehicles linked to a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in North West.

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Intelligence chief warns of mafia-like networks inside state
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Politicians’ egos and ideological hang-ups no longer win votes in SA
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A Judicial Conduct Tribunal heard testimony that a court clerk reported being insulted by Judge Belinda Hartle without initially mentioning a racial slur, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva introduced public spending curbs aimed at stabilizing the fiscal outlook amid mixed market and party reactions, and South African authorities arrested a thirty-eight-year-old foreign national allegedly en route to join the conflict in Ukraine as the tenth such arrest.

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Clerk cried over insults, Judge Hartle tribunal is told
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A 106-year-old South African woman reflects on a century of national change while citing deteriorating public services, unemployment, and poverty, Pope Leo visits Peru on the final leg of his South American tour to urge political unity and action on clergy abuse, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi signal support for high-level security talks, including a possible trilateral summit with Russia.

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At 106, Nozito Xalipi has a lifetime of lessons for SA
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Former acting police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane and five co-accused faced allegations in the Gauteng High Court that they used emergency procurement deviations and collusion to deprive SAPS of fair value in 54 million rand software contracts, a senior intelligence official told the Madlanga commission that South Africa nearly fell to criminal networks before state structures intervened in early 2025, and the IMF said Senegal must finalize a budget framework and address 13 billion dollars in hidden debt to secure a 2.2 billion dollar lending program.

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Armed violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is undermining Ebola containment efforts, South African lawmakers are seeking standardized civil service lifestyle audits after fragmented vetting practices, and Cape Town residents are petitioning to ban electric bikes and scooters on the Sea Point Promenade while officials favor enforcing speed limits and pedestrian right-of-way.

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Attacks on health workers hamper DRC Ebola fight, Africa CDC warns
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MPs call for uniform approach to public-service lifestyle audits
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A South African mother is advocating for awareness and preparing a memoir as her murdered infant daughter would have turned 26, Romanian prosecutors indicted former presidential frontrunner Calin Georgescu over an alleged €1.1 million fraud scheme, and U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said a growing congressional consensus favors tightening semiconductor export limits to China after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned amid an espionage and illegal chip-transfer scandal.

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Dolphin tattoo helped identify baby Cameron Moodley after 2001 kidnapping and murder
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A shooting at a Washington, D.C., fitness club left at least one person dead and several wounded while a suspect remained barricaded inside, a Swiss woman treated for the Bundibugyo Ebola strain in Geneva was discharged after full recovery amid an outbreak exceeding 11,000 confirmed cases, and South Africa’s weather service warned of heatwave conditions, fire danger, and isolated thundershowers across several provinces.

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One dead, several injured as shooter remains barricaded in Washington DC building
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Political parties in eThekwini must remove campaign posters within 30 days of the local elections or face billed removal costs, the eThekwini Ratepayers Political Movement confirmed its two proportional representation seats will be held by Asad Gaffar and Rose Cortes, and a 50-year-old Mookgophong farm owner was arrested on assault charges following an incident involving a man found fishing on his property, with a separate inquest into the victim’s death underway.

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eThekwini: Political parties have 30 days to remove election posters or face penalties
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The death toll from a residential building collapse in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood rose to six as rescue operations continued and investigators examined whether construction excavation caused the collapse, while South Africa’s Asset Forfeiture Unit froze a truck allegedly used to smuggle 34 million rand worth of drugs from Malawi to Johannesburg, leading to five arrests.

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UPDATE | New York building collapse death toll rises to six
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NPA Asset Forfeiture Unit freezes truck used to smuggle drugs worth R34 million from Malawi
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is leading a delegation to Silicon Valley to secure AI investment and partnerships, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned amid reports of an extramarital affair and alleged ties to a Chinese intelligence asset, causing shares to fall and raising succession concerns, and a nine-month-old Palestinian baby has died of hypothermia in a flooded displacement camp in Khan Yunis as Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsens.

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President Ramaphosa to lead delegation seeking AI investment in the US
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The ANC Youth League intensified its opposition to the ANC’s governing arrangement with the Democratic Alliance and warned that the partnership is eroding the ANC’s credibility, the Mpumalanga High Court sentenced Lesotho national Khotsang Saole to life imprisonment for murdering his girlfriend and to a concurrent five-year term for illegal residence, and ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba and DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis met to discuss potential coalition arrangements in Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Ekurhuleni.

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ANCYL says DA is ‘eating what is left’ of ANC in GNU
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The ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay is embroiled in an internal dispute over coalition strategy after election losses, and the DA is preparing for potential power-sharing talks with the MK Party in KwaZulu-Natal despite local resistance and no outright majorities in key metros.

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LISTEN | ANC elections defeat sparks factional war in Nelson Mandela Bay
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Spain passes housing decree after snap election trigger
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South Africa’s Home Affairs Department is launching a biometric and AI-driven digital portal to register asylum claims and tackle corruption and a backlog, and five men accused in the murders of AKA and Tebello Motsoane appeared in court over two taxi-boss killings, with proceedings postponed to January 2027.

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Trump urges Vance to shift attention from Iran to tackling alleged Democratic corruption
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EXPLAINER | What to know about the new digital asylum system
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South Africa’s national football team faces Kenya in a high-stakes Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Soweto, the European Commission plans to deliver its twenty-second sanctions package against Russia before an EU leaders’ meeting on November 26, and US President Donald Trump threatened to double tariffs on Mexico unless it blocks a migrant caravan heading toward the US border.

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Pitso Vs Benni: Legends in the dugout as Bafana host Kenya at Orlando
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EU to unveil new Russia sanctions package by year-end
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