Professor Karen Sliwa-Hahnle shares frontline insights from decades in public service on Africa’s silent killer – hypertension – and why a simple blood pressure check could save your life. Also, her plan for olive oil and plastic, if she were president.

South Africa’s heart health crisis claims 225 lives daily. Researchers call for routine blood pressure screening, integrated chronic care and policies that make prevention affordable.

Abandoned and hijacked homes in Johannesburg’s Kensington are driving residents out as illegal extensions, overcrowding and utility theft pile up costs and erode property values.

Evidence before the Madlanga Commission places taxi boss Oupa Sindane at the centre of alleged extortion, police information leaks and intelligence linked to Cat Matlala.

The Madlanga Commission proves digital money trails can expose deep-seated corruption, but South Africa must turn these electronic footprints into swift prosecutions and lasting institutional reform.

Organisers framed the Washington memorial as a tribute to all farm murder victims in SA; critics called it political theatre. Murmur Intelligence data shows how the debate unfolded online without US amplification.

Eskom has attacked media reports for overstating the cost of Medupi and Kusile. But its own figures answer a much narrower question – and its refusal to disclose what is excluded raises a more serious issue of transparency and accountability.

The fuel contamination scandal in the Garden Route was caused by the fuel additive N-methylaniline, which remains legal in South Africa but is banned across the world. This additive is legal because South Africa has inadequate testing standards, and it is something Parliament needs to rectify.

Lex Libertas’ 3,000 white crosses in Washington event failed to attract much US media coverage, but the political connections behind it say something revealing about the growing network between global right-wing movements.

Another woman has been found in Tembisa as police investigate a string of killings in Ekurhuleni since July, prompting questions about possible links between the cases. While some similarities have raised concerns about possible connections between the cases, significant differences have complicated the theory.

Twenty-eight lives were lost in Gauteng and the Western Cape over the past weekend.

Police say says it is not clear at this stage what caused the fire and investigations are continuing

Police followed-up on information about the suspects intending to commit a robbery.

Twenty-one people were shot at a shisanyama in Lwandle, Strand on Sunday morning.

The investigating team has linked the man, who was Boitumelo’s estranged husband, to her murder.

Covane says Shanela is a planned weekly operation to combat crime.

The utility says technical teams have found evidence of suspected cable theft and vandalism

Sibiya is facing five charges, including rape, human trafficking and alleged sexual grooming.

The case relates to the R228-million SAPS Medicare tender fraud and corruption case.

"Gagash" and his wife are curretly facing 43 charges of fraud, money laundering and theft.