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Rugby returns to South Africa this weekend with a pre-season 'Super Fan Saturday' event at Loftus Versfeld that will see the Bulls host the Sharks (16:25) and the the Stormers take on the Lions (18:55).It is the first competitive rugby the country has seen since the end of March - six months ago - when…

A number of Zimbabwean journalists and activists have been arrested as President Emmerson Mnangagwa launched a crackdown of a planned nationwide protest. The growing reports of alleged human rights violations have prompted the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter social movement. Mnangagwa said "dark forces" inside and outside Zimbabwe "have tampered with" the country’s growth for "too long". A number of Zimbabwean journalists…

The SCA in July set aside an interdict preventing police from demanding that gun owners, whose licences had expired, return their firearms to the state, This would mean that close to 450 000 gun owners can be pursued by police if they do not return their firearms. An interdict was first sought after police changed its policy…

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said he was encouraged by areas of agreement between business and the ANC's proposal for an economic recovery. Ramaphosa said in the coming weeks, the state will work with social partners to finalise a recovery plan. News24 looked at how the ANC and Business for South Africa's economic recovery plans compare. President Cyril…

Members of the South African Police Service. (ER Lombard/Gallo Images) President Cyril Ramaphosa reimposed a national curfew after it was lifted nearly a month ago. Constitutional law experts have argued that the curfew can be challenged in courts. A curfew infringes on an individual's constitutional right to movement and dignity. Nearly a month after President Cyril Ramaphosa lifted…