SABCNews PM Headlines @17H00 | 25 August 2026

*Alleged crime kingpin, Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala, has distanced himself from the late taxi boss, Jothan Msibi, telling the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that theirs was strictly a business relationship.

*President Cyril Ramaphosa faced questions from Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema in the National Assembly about the government's handling of violence and anti-immigrant sentiment targeting African foreign nationals in the country.

*The state has alleged that North West businessman Brown Mogotsi disguised himself in an attempt to escape from court cells in August. Mogotsi approached the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court for his fourth bail application, citing new facts.

*Two UN peacekeepers from Ethiopia have been killed and seven other people injured in an ambush in South Sudan's Jonglei State.

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