Tammy Petersen

Shene Gurling can't remember her wedding day or cherished memories of her two sons' childhoods. At 39, her forgetfulness is not age-related – she believes it's a result of her birth control injections.

A long shot: SA women want Pfizer to acknowledge tumour link to contraceptive injection

When Lieutenant-Colonel Frederik le Roux walked the perimeter of Louiesenhof Farm on the cold winter's night that Stefan Smit was killed, he came to one conclusion: no outsider had entered to execute the murder.

A Dutch Reformed Church minister has been removed from the ministry after he was found to have been involved in indecent and inappropriate behaviour with a relative.

A former police officer was handed petrol and a tyre and instructed to set it alight outside Louiesenhof to create an ostensible safety threat so that farmer Stefan Smit would extend his security company's contract.

A woman whose mother, an Andrea Bocelli superfan, missed most of her once-in-a-lifetime experience when she was hospitalised during the Italian tenor's Cape Town performance, says the ordeal could have been avoided.

Standard Bank has defended its foreclosure attempt on the home of trade unionist Zwelinzima Vavi, arguing that he and his wife have been in arrears for the past decade.

She is an unconventional detective – untrained and only armed with a law degree. But when this seasoned prosecutor takes off her legal robe, she gets down to solving cases.

The 9th of August commemorates the march by 20 000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in 1956 in protest against the dompas, a major symbol of oppression. But this activism tends to get lost in a “cloud of fluffiness”, characterised by special offers, “pretty clothes” and fickle messaging.

A Western Cape school has been tackled for imposing severe sanctions on two of its star rugby players found guilty of vaping, with the High Court setting aside their punishment as it was found to have been humiliating instead of focused on reform.