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ActionSA’s Nasiphi Moya has been elected as Tshwane's new mayor.

She received 122 votes, while the DA's former mayor Cilliers Brink received 86. This was announced on Wednesday during a special council meeting.

SA Communist Party general secretary Solly Mapaila says with the government of national unity (GNU) “our country is back in the hands of the Boers” and the GNU is unjustifiable.

Security and law enforcement agencies are monitoring a nationwide strike over “anger regarding prevailing economic crises”.

SAPS is adding more police officers in communities, aiming for one officer for every 220 people.

Two months since taking reins at the police ministry, Senzo Mchunu says police are upping the standard of policing, and criminals “must surrender or be made to surrender”.

Snowfall outside the winter months is historically not a rare occurrence in South Africa, says the SA Weather Service.This was according to experts at a media briefing on Tuesday at the Pretoria Press Club.

Police minister Senzo Mchunu says police would struggle to fight crime if communities did not actively join hands to fight criminals. We speak to a crime analyst on ways to limit vulnerable citizens dying like flies.

Dr Chris de Kock unpacks the ways crime can practically and effectively be solved.

Police minister Senzo Mchunu says weapons SAPS are confiscating from criminals includes military weapons.

Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, cultural and African spirituality expert, unpacks why South Africans are battling with the rise of sangomas, why they too experience pain and grieve even though they have spiritual powers and what encourages the rate of people consulting sangomas.

Minister Gayton McKenzie says it is cold outside the government of national unity and he is happy to be led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.