President Jacob Zuma did not have to explain his ties to the Gupta family to the ANC, secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said yesterday.

The city and Ajax Cape Town hope it's a case of second time lucky as they try to get two English Premier League teams to play in Cape Town in July.

A teaser poster for a film adaptation of Nelson Mandela's autobiography has been unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Channel 24 reported yesterday.

Wendy Woods, a music teacher, social activist, charity campaigner, journalist and wife of Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods, has died in Surrey, England, aged 72.

A special police task team has been appointed to deal with a spate of robberies in Athlone and Lansdowne.

You can cheat your way to a driving licence for as little as R2 500, according to outside operators who arrange deals with insiders at the department.

Aspirant drivers in Khayelitsha are being offered ways to cheat their way to a learner's or driving licence by paying anything from R2 500 for a "Stay Soft" to ensure a pass.

Thousands of motorists were diverted from the N2 yesterday when axed janitors responsible for cleaning communal toilets protested by blocking the freeway, burning tyres and dumping human faeces on the road.

Brian Alexander murdered three people in 1996 and a few years later fatally stabbed a man in the heart in front of his mother.

A rehab centre housing a number of former gangsters is set to have its security bolstered after three of the programme's leaders were shot.

Former Cape premier Peter Marais has laughed off claims that he wants to establish a new party.

Western Cape Education MEC Donald Grant has been slammed for a comment deemed “insensitive” by Cosatu’s Tony Ehrenreich.

Doctor Cyril Karabus has emerged with his sense of humour intact after a nine-month ordeal in the United Arab Emirates.