Minister Mathale confirms SAPS officer’s resignation after alleged girlfriend’s murder....
Firefighting efforts are in full swing in the Tokai area of Table Mountain National Park after three separate blazes broke out on Friday....
A number of roads in the greater eThekwini Metro were also flooded....
News24 investigative journalist Sikonathi Mantshantsha has been honoured by the National Press Club for his work exposing an environmental disaster borne of Mogale City's failing sewage infrastructure...
In a historic move towards fostering global diplomacy and ending conflicts, President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to three important global players in quick succession this week –Russian President Vladimir...
South Africa deals with as many as 11 000 malaria cases a year. However, more than 96% of malaria cases originate from outside the country, health officials say....
Actor Don Eric Mlangeni-Nawa is celebrated for his decades-long career and inspiring mentorship....
The mother of a 15-year-old girl has told how her daughter was forced to give birth alone on the bathroom floor at Pelonomi Hospital in Bloemfontein, despite reportedly pleading with nurses for assist...
Limpopo Transport Dept. warns motorists against hitchhikers as criminal impersonators commit crimes...
This third year Bachelor of Education student lost his life during a protest....
From chasing down hijacking and robbery suspects to protecting each other through life-threatening situations, Warrant Officer Damian Theron and his K9 partner, Night, remain relentless in their fight...
An Australian woman, Mellissa Campbell, is the latest to come forward with a complaint against the internationally known Dr Elliot Shevel, 81, and his Headache Clinic....
Bergview College principal Jaco Pieterse is contemplating laying criminal charges and launching lawsuits against those who falsely accused him of raping a 7-year-old child – including several prominen...
An investigation into the South African Rugby Union's handling of the failed R1.4 billion equity bid by US-based Ackerley Sports Group for a slice of SA rugby's crown jewels has been finalised and han...
From polite AI users funding eco-disasters to Finland’s smug happiness and twins in sync, Jonathan Ancer's weekly news to share around the braai proves the world’s as tjatjarag as ever - especially he...
Bea Swanepoel is the CEO of Jozi My Jozi, a non-profit “coalition of the willing” working to rejuvenate Johannesburg’s inner city. Anneliese Burgess speaks to her about what has been achieved, why she...
We’ve spent so long waiting for another political Messiah that we’ve forgotten the only way he succeeded was through the will of the people. But Nickolaus Bauer says no one is coming to save us. This...
Israel Walters, a City of Cape Town law enforcement officer accused of conspiring with an alleged Cape Flats gang boss to carry out a hit on a witness, was granted bail in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate'...
This has brought to the fore questions regarding the safety of learners in schools....
The Gauteng Department of Health has urged police to take action against a group of community members obstructing patients from accessing the Kalafong Provincial Tertiary Hospital in Atteridgeville, P...
UNISA's Thabo Mbeki School and the Miriam Makeba Foundation celebrate the life of Miriam Makeba....
It has been exactly a year since KwaZulu-Natal police descended on the home of a Durban man and uncovered pictures and videos depicting the rape and torture of children on electronic devices seized at...
The South African Weather Service has warned of a heatwave with persistently high temperatures in the Northern Cape that is expected until Sunday....
AfriForum says that it accepts the apology from Police Minister Senzo Mchunu....
The ANC and DA's most senior leaders met on Friday after a week of political differences over the Budget....
"We cannot simply take from our elders while giving nothing back," Minister McKenzie states....
Firearms seized from the Cape Town head office of Professional Protection Alternatives (PPA Security) have been returned after forensic analysis found no links to any criminal activity....
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The Road Accident Fund's decision to limit the use of a panel of attorneys has led to the entity paying out nearly R5 billion in default claims because it did not have proper legal representation....
Deputy Police Minister Cassel Mathale urges community-police partnership to fight crime....
The State has dropped a racketeering charge against the accused in the alleged multimillion-rand fraud, corruption and money laundering case at the University of Fort Hare....
The KwaZulu-Natal government will dole out R86.141 million for the Zulu royal household this financial year, according to KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli....
R6.65-billion - or $350 million. That's how much South Africa receives in annual funding from the US government's National Institutes of Health. If the country loses all of its NIH funding, the countr...
The Director of Luthuli Museum, Brian Xaba highlights the role Heritage centres....
The reopened inquest into the 1967 death of ANC leader Albert John Luthuli has brought to light potential discrepancies in the original investigation....
It's believed the teacher sent messages of a sexual nature to a 12-year-old girl...
The woman believed to have smuggled firearms into the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on the day taxi boss Dingalomoya Cintso was gunned down inside the building has been arrested....
Three of the four men, with the exception of Boitumelo Mooi stated they intended to plead not guilty...
One person was killed, and others were rushed to hospitals and clinics after floods destroyed houses and roads in Umlazi, south of Durban, on Friday afternoon, said KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport and...
If your taxi driver swears at you or any other passengers, they could be slapped with a R1 500 fine. And if they are thinking of sipping an alcoholic beverage at the taxi rank or going to work without...
The fires which happened days apart have brought into question the hospital's safety protocols...
While eThekwini residents are bracing themselves for severe weather, a significant increase in southbound traffic volumes is expected on the N3 Toll Route from midday as holidaymakers make their way t...
Twin chess prodigies Deauwin and Beauwin Rens, fresh from competing at the World Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships in Greece, have returned to South Africa with cherished memories....
South African schools have long been celebrated for their electrifying war cries, a spirited cultural legacy that echoes nationwide across sports fields and school grounds....
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has admitted that he wrongly identified Jaco Pieterse, the principal of Bergview College in Matatiele, as a suspect in the rape of a 7-year-old - and says he is prepared t...
The EFF, in a letter to the National Assembly speaker, expressed "its deepest concern regarding the fiscal and governance vacuum created by" the finance minister's "failure to table a lawful and credi...
The Skukuza Regional Court sentenced a convicted Kruger National Park rhino poacher on Thursday to 20 years of direct imprisonment....
Court delays asbestos case for trial-within-a-trial after Cholota challenges jurisdiction....
The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein has decided to deal with a special plea raised by Moroadi Cholota - former Free State premier Ace Magashule's ex-assistant and one of his co-accused in the as...
DA demands firm action over principal's alleged use of corporal punishment on learners....
The Western Cape High Court has dismissed Stellenbosch Municipality's bid to compel a property owner on Bird Street to rehabilitate a water-filled hole where a teenage couple died. Their vehicle was f...
The re-opened inquest into the death of former ANC's president Chief Albert Luthuli continues today....
A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to four life terms behind bars for the rape of four girls in Nsikazi and Bushbuckridge between April 2009 and March 2022....
KZN faces disruptive rain with localized flooding and traffic chaos, prompting warnings....
The 45th Southern Africa Telecommunications Association Annual Conference continues today....
Majority of them were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol....
North West Health Dept. is tracing children who missed immunisation during Africa Vaccination Week....
Roads have been closed in Durban and surrounding areas, as heavy rain and flooding continued to batter the area on Friday morning....
Jeri Elizabeth Mnguni, affectionately known as Gogo Mdala, leaves behind a legacy of strength, resilience, and cultural wisdom....
Police say the siblings are also suspected to be linked to a string of taxi-related murders...
Scholar transporter arrested for allegedly raping a 5 year old after picking her up from school....
City of Johannesburg chief whip Sithembiso Zungu's career has progressed over the past five years despite allegations of extortion under investigation by the Hawks....
A Limpopo man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old scholar who was part of a group he transported home from school....
The Enyobeni inquest in the East London Regional Court will continue today....
Yesterday, the court heard that drugs did not seem to impair alleged arsonist, Sithembiso Mdlalose....
The DA is calling for a swift investigation into the two recent fires....
Fresh from losing yet another legal bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor, Jacob Zuma's lawyers argue that delays in his trial have resulted in the deaths of "crucial" witnesses - and...
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 hav...
Amid the complex and often tenuous relations that South Africa and Ukraine have with the US, President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Ukrainian counterpart, President Volodymyr Zelensky, both agreed that Pre...
In hindsight, the impasse on the now scrapped VAT increase of 0.5 percentage points, which led to a fallout between the GNU's largest partners, the DA and ANC, could have been avoided, says DA leader...
Policia Swider is one of 80 000 Jews who died as a result of the conditions in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and one of six million Jewish people who died at the hands of the Nazis during the Second Wor...
The footage was requested by tavern manager Siyakhangela Ndevu to verify the events....
SASSA says this will be used as an alternative form of identification...
After it came to light that the government budgeted R408 million this financial year as "Covid-19 relief" for taxi operators, the South African National Taxi Council called for "compassion and underst...
Tributes pour for to the late Don Mlangeni-Nawa at his memorial service, held at Soweto Theatre....
Slain Walter Sisulu University student Sisonke Mbolekwa was described as a caring and protective person by his peers in a memorial service held in Mthatha on Thursday....
The Mpumalanga High Court in Mbombela has sentenced a 39-year-old man to life imprisonment....
The MK Party has a "million-dollar" question about the VAT reversal: How will Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and his department handle the administrative "nightmare" their dilly-dallying and late r...
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Scattered showers and thundershowers expected in Mpumalanga and Limpopo could lead to localised flooding, especially in low-lying area, according to the South African Weather Service....
Four alleged members of the notorious "West Gang" who are accused of terrorising the community of Inanda, Durban, and are linked to more than 20 murders, have abandoned their bail application....
The grandson of ANC president Chief Albert John Luthuli, Mthunzi Luthuli, tore into the party during court testimony on Thursday, accusing it of making a deal with the nationalist government to make s...
In South African political parties' mad scramble to claim credit for the VAT increase reversal, DA federal council chair Helen Zille said their court case to prevent a VAT hike was "pivotal" in Financ...
The French company is charged alongside former president in the arms deal corruption trial...
Mamabolo says the accused must prove exceptional circumstances for his release on bail...
A memorial service for veteran South African actor Don Mlangeni Nawa is held at the Soweto Theatre....
Political analyst Ongama Mtimka says the leadership of the Eastern Cape - not its policies - is preventing the province from realising its significant economic growth prospects....
A close-knit KwaZulu-Natal family is being torn in two after their relative was arrested this month for allegedly orchestrating the murder of his cousin, ANC veteran Zibuse Mlaba, in October 2021....
Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre have launched a high court bid to challenge the Western Cape Education Department's admissions policy....
A father found guilty of almost 800 charges relating to the possession of child pornography, the rape of his own daughter, and human trafficking was sentenced to double life imprisonment in the Easter...
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that during his closed discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his counterpart affirmed his readiness to pursue an unconditional ceasefire amid the ongo...
The state has refuted claims that Cholota was treated unfairly...
Just moments before welcoming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Union Buildings on Thursday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he had a telephone call with US President Donald Trump...
The State has slammed former Free State premier Ace Magashule's one-time assistant, Moroadi Cholota's, claims that she was treated unfairly by investigators who interviewed her in the United States (U...
A City of Cape Town law enforcement officer has been arrested on an attempted murder charge after allegedly conspiring with a prominent Cape Flats gang boss to carry out a hit on a witness....
In this short documentary, I Don’t Want to Lose Myself, we experience 63-year-old Carol de Swardt’s widely publicised assisted suicide in Switzerland....
The Inkatha Freedom Party, one of several players in the government of national unity (GNU), has accused the DA of a "big brother attitude", saying it will not solve political problems....
The KwaZulu-Natal education department has dismissed social media claims that a Grade 9 pupil at a top high school in uMlazi, who was disciplined for contravening the school's policy on "sangoma pract...
Amid the comforting aromas of a warm kitchen and the vibrant energy of schoolchildren, Jesca Murombedzi, head chef at SOS Africa, is rewriting the recipe for growth and empowerment....
The National Prosecuting Authority has appointed senior counsel to assess and advise its team of prosecutors on a possible appeal of the judgment on Nigerian televangelist Pastor Timothy Omotoso's acq...