Free State DA leader Roy Jankielsohn was on Wednesday asked to leave a sitting of the provincial legislature held in a tent at Petrus Steyn after being asked to retract parts of a speech.

Preaching fitness for local police members has already paid dividends, Free State police head Lt-General Calvin Sengani said on Wednesday.

A state in western India banned Pulitzer-Prize winner Joseph Lelyveld’s new book about Mahatma Gandhi on Wednesday after reviews saying it hints that the father of India’s independence had a homosexual relationship. The author says his work is being misinterpreted.

The fuel levy should be lowered in light of the expected petrol price increase next month, the Freedom Front Plus said on Wednesday.

The trial of five people accused of sexual offences against children was postponed in the Knysna Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, the National Prosecuting Authority said.

The water in Loskop Dam, Mpumalanga, was “deteriorating fast” with permanent bacteria visible on the surface, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) said on Wednesday.

A commission of inquiry into the alleged sidelining of some communities in the roll out of electricity in KwaZulu-Natal was announced by Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Nomusa Dube on Wednesday.

Protesting students barricaded two of the three entrances to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Westville on Wednesday, the university said.

The commercial crimes unit at the Johannesburg Central Police Station will investigate convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik’s alleged breach of the Companies Act, the DA said on Wednesday.

Twenty people were injured when a passenger bus was struck by a goods train at a level crossing on Enstra Road in Payneville, near Springs, east of Johannesburg, on Wednesday afternoon, paramedics said.