Illegal miners armed with rifles, who operate in tunnels under the Johannesburg CBD, have become so brazen they open fire on City Power officials who descend into the tunnels to repair faults....
South Africa's police DNA backlog has once again soared out of control, now exceeding 140 000 cases, delaying justice for victims of crime and allowing potential criminals to walk free....
SA's budget can only afford to employ 800 of 1 800 unemployed doctors, despite vacancy rates for public sector facilities ranging between 5% and 22%....
Johannesburg City Power says it has lost R1.5 billion to ageing infrastructure....
The DA is holding the country to ransom with issues that have nothing to do with the Budget, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said of one of the ANC's governing partners in the governme...
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has accused the DA of seeking a return to the "good old days of apartheid" when it made demands in the build-up to the tabling of the Budget on Wednesday, "exposin...
Southern African Development Community leaders have agreed on a phased withdrawal of troops attached to the SADC Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo....
The ANC has approached the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) to review the Durban High Court's dismissal of the party's claim to the MK logo in the trademark dispute between Luthuli House and former presi...
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure has instituted an urgent eviction application in the Western Cape High Court against people living in a dilapidated three-storey building in the Cape...
The defence in the kidnapping trial of missing Joshlin Smith ripped into the testimony of well-known TikTok influencer Shakiera "Shakes Warrior" Ganief, saying her version of events was "questionable"...
In a surprising twist in the Reinhardt Leach murder trial, the State agreed with the defence that there were substantial and compelling circumstances allowing a deviation from the maximum sentence of...
The MK Party kept its foot on the ANC's neck by winning the Ward 2 by-election in Richmond in the uMgungundlovu District Municipality....
Disruptive rains are expected from this evening in KwaZulu-Natal....
A member of a gang of suspected ATM bombers was killed and two others were wounded during a shootout with police in Lenasia, Johannesburg on Thursday morning....
One armed suspect has been fatally shot, and several others wounded during a shootout with police...
The MK Party kept its foot on the ANC's neck by winning the Ward 2 by-election in Richmond in the uMgungundlovu District Municipality....
Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Blade Nzimande says SA needs to keep-up with AI....
Last year, 110 teachers were accused of sexual misconduct, according to the SACE annual report....
Mpumalanga police officer Nyiko Nyathi is facing two counts of murder....
The escapee was arrested for murder in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years....
From thunderstorms and heavy rain to increased risks of fires, the SA Weather Service has issued a series of warnings to South Africans in various provinces....
Trial of 3 accused in the disappearance of Joshlin Smith....
The public is encouraged to submit contributions via the IEC's website before the September deadline...
A convicted murderer has been arrested at a car hire dealership in Sandton, Johannesburg - about three months after he escaped along with several inmates from a Mozambican maximum security prison duri...
The trial of three accused in connection with the disappearance of Joshlin Smith 7, continues......
Mmelesi was allegedly the driver of the vehicle which collided with a truck in April 2023....
The Democratic Alliance said the budget would struggle to pass in parliament, given the ANC’s lack of a majority...
A 14-year-old girl has made history at Westerford High School by being the first female to be selected to be part of the first-team cricket squad....
Accused state capture mastermind Ajay Gupta's son tried and failed to get the director-general of the Department of Home Affairs jailed for contempt because the official did not give his Dubai-born da...
Two of the five men arrested for the kidnapping of an Ethiopian businessman on Monday were previously sanctioned by the United States Treasury for their affiliations with ISIS, highlighting their invo...
Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane made several misleading statements about her scandalous R575 600 "loan" from a VBS middleman in 2016 during a recent interview with podcaster Sizwe Mpofu-Wal...
The stakes have never been higher as Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's Budget which proposes a 0.5 percentage point VAT hike is now in the hands of Parliament where the ANC no longer has a majority....
A mother has died almost two weeks after a deadly shooting at her home in Philippi East, Cape Town, which left her daughter dead and her son fighting for his life in hospital....
Some of the survivors allege that the driver was speeding when the crash happened....
An email thread about eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality's payment to one of the companies accused in the R320 million Durban Solid Waste tender fraud case shows that some senior officials in the fin...
Joburg Water says construction of the new Erand Tower,Pump Station project is currently underway...
The late Mark Lifman and his alleged associate Jerome Booysen suspected that steroid smuggler Brian Wainstein was "taxing" businesses in Cape Town, according to a summary of a phone call intercepted b...
Approximately 15 people have been murdered every day in the Eastern Cape over six months in 2024....
His party would have yielded if any increases were guaranteed to be temporary and tied to an overhaul of state spending patterns...
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi quietly gazetted regulations prohibiting the sale, importation, and manufacture of food products containing cannabis....
Political parties in Parliament have slammed Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's budget, describing it as both expected and disappointing....
Raquel "Kelly" Smith allegedly told a resident in Diazville, Saldanha Bay, that she wanted to sell Joshlin as far back as August 2023 but that the "people" she wanted to sell the child to did not show...
Chaos and devastation. That’s the position South African USAID-funded projects find themselves in after the Trump administration closed them down overnight on 26 February. Will the US government now k...
The South African Weather Service has issued multiple warnings for disruptive rain, severe thunderstorms, and floods across the country....
Cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) have risen to 78 in the Eastern Cape....
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A court in Malawi on Wednesday ordered that self-proclaimed "prophet" Shepherd Bushiri and his wife, Mary Bushiri, be extradited to South Africa to stand trial on multiple criminal charges....
Shepherd and Mary Bushiri appeared before two different courts in South Africa....
Kelly Smith did not act like a mother whose child had gone missing....
As Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered the highly contested Budget on Wednesday, trade union federation Cosatu and its alliance partners vehemently opposed the inclusion of a VAT increase....
Concerns have been raised about the dominance of isiXhosa in proposals to rename several streets, institutions and neighbourhoods in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality....
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivered his revised Budget speech without the support of the ANC's largest government of national unity partner, the DA....
Former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) chief operations officer Phillemon Letwaba is challenging the constitutionality of the Special Tribunal's power to order the freezing and forfeiture of asset...
The number of people who died during a horror bus crash along the R21 freeway near the OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday has been revised from 16 to 13....
A trip to a mall in the morning and another in the afternoon to where 72-year-old Lynette Mustapha's body was found – GPS tracking data has placed suspected serial killer Zaheera Boomgaard's vehicle a...
eThekwini Municipality's Deputy Head of Supply Chain Management, who is an accused in the R320 million Durban Solid Waste tender fraud and corruption trial in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, will challe...
Racquel "Kelly" Smith became defensive and aggressive when she was asked about the likelihood that her boyfriend, Jacquen "Boeta" Appollis, had done something to her daughter, Joshlin, the Western Cap...
The Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) president PG Mavundla has filed a complaint against Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Elsja-Marie Bezuidenhout for what he alleges to be the judge's misconduct in a cou...
A Level 6 warning for disruptive rain has been issued for KwaZulu-Natal areas, with eThekwini residents warned to brace for heavy rains and possible flooding....
The family of a KwaZulu-Natal man accused of allegedly stabbing to death his 75-year-old mother were left fuming after he told the court that he intended to apply for bail....
Teachers at Zanemfundo Primary School in crime-ridden Philippi, Cape Town, are being escorted by police officers to and from school while a private security company has been deployed to secure it....
Two cruise liners docked in Cape Town on Wednesday morning, and thousands of embarking and disembarking passengers caused traffic congestion throughout the city....
Instead of giving MPLs the timeline they sought for when Gauteng's water challenges would be resolved, Premier Panyaza Lesufi shifted the blame for the situation to illegal connections and water syndi...
Zakithi Ndaba was a journalism graduate, talented chef and a mother of a 4-year-old little girl before she was found dead with a gunshot wound at her apartment in Sunninghill, Sandton, over the weeken...
The boyfriend of slain Gqeberha mother Vicki Terblanche has been found guilty of her murder in the Eastern Cape High Court....
With less than an hour to go before Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his highly contested revised Budget speech, the SA Communist Party (SACP) has urged the government to introduce wealth ta...
Study suggests there were 323 fatal bus crashes in the past five years in the country...
The ANC's parliamentary caucus is confident that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver a balanced Budget that's "appreciative of the difficult choices that need to be made"....
Four days after the 2024 disappearance of then-6-year-old Joshlin Smith, her mother told her Grade 1 class teacher that a Nigerian man told her the child was in a container and was on her way to West...
The Gauteng Department of Health says Glaucoma is a leading cause of irreversible blindness....
Another bus accident in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, has left 19 primary school pupils injured after the bus collided with a truck at the intersection of Dekema and Blackreef roads in Wadeville on Wednesday m...
As South Africa navigates a "highly toxic, complex and difficult environment", former minister of international relations and cooperation Naledi Pandor fears that Steve Biko's words have come true: "B...
The interview was mired in multiple provable examples of misinformation and disinformation....
The crash occurred on the northbound lane of the R21 near OR Tambo International Airport on Tuesday...
Tensions between the ANC's Dr WB Rubusana regional secretary Antonio Carels and chairperson Princess Faku have come to a head in the lead-up to next month's elective conference, where Faku's mayoral c...
A group of leading African researchers trying to develop effective vaccines against HIV is trying to figure out how to salvage their ambitious research after losing funding due to the Trump administra...
Trial of 3 accused in the disappearance of Joshlin Smith...
Due to "severe cost-containment measures", the Department of Correctional Services has not fed animals properly at its 21 agricultural correctional centres, according to the NSPCA....
The group is now calling on Treasury to better manage its allocation to the sector....
Members of the government of national unity and opposition parties have raised concerned that the ongoing impasse between the ANC and the DA could trigger the need for fresh elections <div c...
South Africa is looking to new investment markets amid a possible axing from the lucrative US trade agreement, the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)....
A National Treasury official told the Electoral Commission of South Africa's (IEC) conference on electronic voting she is not sure it would lead to cost savings due to the high input costs....
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has suffered another blow in its fight to use CCTV cameras to monitor cigarette manufacturers' warehouses after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed its...
Just over a month ago, Liyabukwa Dyantyi prayed a Good Samaritan would come to his rescue and finance his first-year university studies....
For Dzulani Trevor Sidogi, the Dzuli Eco-Park is a childhood dream come true, built in the backyard of his one-bedroom house in Tshipako Village, Limpopo, that visitors cannot get enough of....
They got married after a whirlwind four-month romance. Six months later, she was dead....
A South African woman being held in a compound in Myanmar, near the Thailand border, says her harrowing experience is like a nightmare she cannot wake up from....
Emergency teams are working to extinguish train carriages that caught fire in the Old Marine Drive area of the Cape Town train line in the CBD on Tuesday night....
The Asset Forfeiture Unit seized assets including a luxury vehicle and R647 300 in cash belonging to Darryn Wilken and his girlfriend, Tiona Megan Moodley....
EFF leader Julius Malema has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of undermining International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola when he spoke to billionaire Elon Musk earlier this year....
Family and friends of Imaan Syms are in mourning after the 30-year-old was shot and killed, allegedly at the hands of a lone gunman, in Woodstock on Monday night....
Cape Town Disaster Risk Management says strong south-easterly winds up to 90 km/h are expected....
Residents of Inanda, Durban, are in fear of "who is next" after a spate of deaths, allegedly at the hands of a group of trigger-happy teenagers who terrorise the community....
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured parliamentarians that he will follow through with his decision to send envoys to the United States to smooth out relations between the two countries....
Tensions between the ANC's Dr WB Rubusana regional secretary Antonio Carels and chairperson Princess Faku have come to a head in the lead-up to the upcoming month's elective conference, where Faku's m...
Sisonke says the halting of the US' Pepfar funding has left has left their members vulnerable....
The role that Reinhardt Leach played in his girlfriend Vicki Terblanche's death three years ago was driven by hurt, his defence attorney told the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha on Tuesday....
Yellow Level 2 severe thunderstorms leading to flooding are expected in parts of the North West, the Free State, Gauteng and Limpopo, according to the South African Weather Service....
Reports by the Office of the Health Ombud (OHO) and the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) have found claims that Nicholas van Burick's body lay neglected for hours after his death at Johann...
Suspected serial killer Zaheera Boomgaard allegedly practised the handwritten signature of one of her alleged victims, Lynette Mustapha, to manipulate her last will, making herself the sole beneficiar...