Starting a new business is not for the faint-hearted.

A Mitchells Plain man made a tearful plea for the forgiveness of Anzunette du Plessis's family after confessing to stabbing her and slitting her throat in her Claremont home.

Northlink College has suspended classes until Monday at its Belhar campus after students demanding financial aid set a vehicle alight and damaged another.

Erik (Frederik Bester Howard) Laubscher, the paint salesman who became the first living artist to fetch R1 million for a painting at a local auction, died in his sleep at Kronendal in Hout Bay yesterday morning.

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THE WESTERN Cape government wants to ban seven Delft “community leaders” from interfering in a housing project, claiming they were the ringleaders of violent protests that damaged the site in May, the Western Cape High Court heard yesterday.

Emergency security will be sent to Bulumko Secondary School in Khayelitsha after a group of alleged gang members, armed with knives, entered the school this week and apparently intimidated staff and pupils, the Western Cape Education Department said.

The SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) has condemned the actions of a Home Affairs official who hauled a Cape Argus photographer into a police station's courtyard and deleted pictures of a news event he was covering.

Allegations that four gate guards at the Tsitsikamma National Park have pocketed "a substantial amount" of the park's takings are being investigated by

SANParks.

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About 30km south-east of Pretoria on the N4 highway, there is a place you enter through a boom gate.

THE attacks began in Du Noon on Thursday, May 22, exactly five years ago, when Somali shop owners were targeted. That same evening the terror spread from Khayelitsha, Nyanga and Kuils River to Capricorn, Masiphumelele and also Knysna.

Young lock Gerbrandt Grobler is set to make his first Super Rugby start against the Reds as Andries Bekker may have played his last game for the Stomers and De Kock Steenkamp is still not ready.

Whoppers and Big Kings are back on the menu for Muslims who would like to join the queue for Burger King.

Five years ago today, xenophobic violence flared up in Cape Town, causing thousands to flee and seek refuge in emergency camps. The unprecedented attacks on foreign nationals took place in areas across the country during the month of May in 2008. NGOS report that non-nationals today remain vulenerable.