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• News24 | Counting bullets: ShotSpotter records 7 400 rounds fired in 8 months

  A bullet is fired every 47 minutes, on average, across an area comprising less than 10 square kilometres of Cape Town.

• News24 | VBS: As calls for Simelane’s removal from Cabinet mounts, ANC leaves it up to Ramaphosa

  While another party has added its voice to those calling for Thembi Simelane’s removal as justice and constitutional development minister, her party, the ANC, says her continued presence in Cabinet is President Cyril Ramaphosa’s prerogative.

• News24 | New Tshwane coalition must serve ANC and residents, says Mbalula

  The ANC submitted yet another motion of no confidence in the mayor, Cilliers Brink, essentially kickstarting negotiations around the future of the metro.

• News24 | Retribution: Quarrel ended in fatal stabbing, then 3 fiery deaths by angry mob

  When Sebokeng resident Bheki Ndlovu, 29, was murdered, residents of the Vaal township launched a hunt for the three alleged perpetrators.

• News24 | 'Schools are already so chaotic': Teacher cuts could result in education disaster, expert warns

  Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube met with all education MECs on Friday to discuss the impact of the budget cuts on their respective provinces.

• News24 | Two men sentenced for their role in deadly Kimberley guesthouse robbery

  Two men who tried to rob a Northern Cape guest house in 2016, ultimately killing the owner’s son, were sentenced in the Northern Cape High Court in Kimberley on Monday.

• News24 | Charl Kinnear murder: Four cellphones kept out of evidence for 11 days due to 'rogue unit' fears

  Four cellphones belonging to a woman and a man accused of an attempted hand grenade attack on the late Charl Kinnear's house were only officially booked in as evidence 11 days after they were seized, the Western Cape High Court heard on Monday.

• News24 | Another mpox case confirmed, but 'no immediate pressure' for vaccine, says health dept

  Amid the confirmation of another mpox case, this time in the Western Cape, the health department said the process to acquire vaccines was ongoing.

• News24 | 'You will suffer': Investigating officer links 5 men to extortion plot in Durban

  Five men have appeared in the Camperdown Magistrate's Court on charges related to extortion at a bridge construction site in KwaXimba, Durban.

• News24 | Eastern Cape councillor accused of acid attack on municipal official

  A Great Kei Municipality official alleged that a councillor poured acid on his legs after an altercation in Komga, Eastern Cape, last week.

• News24 | Tuesday's weather: Gusty winds, scattered showers and cloudy skies across SA

  The South African Weather Service has forecast gusty winds, scattered showers and cloudy conditions across the country.

• News24 | British tourist drowns at remote beach in KZN nature reserve

  A 47-year-old British tourist drowned at the Cape Vidal Nature Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday.

• News24 | Man arrested after decomposed body of missing North West woman found in bushes

  The decomposed body of 26-year-old Nomsa Jass has been found, two weeks after she went missing in Potchefstroom, North West.

• News24 | WATCH | How Transnet whistleblowing cost Vereeniging man his life

  Armand Swart, a low-level employee of a Vereeniging engineering company, was killed in a hit after the alleged triggermen mistook him for a colleague.

• News24 | Helen Joseph Hospital horror, Kolisi comes back home to the Sharks: Today's 7 top stories in 7 minutes

  News24 brings you the top stories of the day, summarised into neat little packages. Read through quickly or listen to the articles via our customised text-to-speech feature.

• News24 | High Court dismisses ousted MKP MPs' urgent application to stop party replacing them in Parliament

  Despite concerns about how corruption-accused former president Jacob Zuma runs his party, the Western Cape High Court dismissed 10 former MKP MPs' urgent application for an interdict to stop the party from filling the seats their departure left vacant.

• News24 | WATCH | Pastor Mboro: Defence opposed to state request for 'biased' magistrate to recuse herself

  The prosecution accused magistrate Katlego Mokoena of "bias" and asked her to recuse herself before the second bail hearing of the controversial Paseka Motsoeneng, popularly known as Pastor Mboro, could begin in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court .

• News24 | SA goes to China for crimefighting tech, China hears promise to protect Chinese business in SA

  Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has highlighted a quest for new tools to fight crime in his visit to China. After a meeting, China promised to protect its citizens and infrastructure.

• News24 | Eastern Cape man hit doctor who treated him hours after he allegedly killed cop, court hears

  A young doctor told the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha that a man who was wounded in a shootout with police after he allegedly shot an officer dead in a court building last year, assaulted her while she was treating him.

• News24 | 'Mathematical hooliganism': Motsoaledi rubbishes estimation NHI will cost R1.3 trillion

  Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has accused some private sector players of "mathematical hooliganism" by inflating the cost of the state's controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) to scare people away from believing in the plan.