A Johannesburg man had to drive to another fire station after he was told the first was "closed".

On searching the vehicle, officers discovered six bags filled with dagga in the trailer. The dagga weighed around 160 kilograms.

Paramedics were called to the scene after the paraglider misjudged his landing and rolled down a 20-metre hill.

Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Obed Bapela is in self-quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said he, like many around the world, was shocked with events that unfolded in the US capital this week.

Helderstroom Prison has gone into an even stricter lockdown after 152 inmates and eight officials tested positive for Covid-19.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the ANC integrity commission's criticism of him because he said it showed the body was fully independent and fearless.

Two murder suspects, who had been on the run since September, have been arrested in Durban.

Government structures are in meetings to consider whether to implement a harsher Covid-19 lockdown, but President Cyril Ramaphosa is non-committal for now on whether more restrictions are imminent.

Police officers have intercepted a truck driver. They found the truck was transporting beer valued at an estimated R1.9 million.

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Anti-Gang Unit members deployed in Ocean View have arrested four people on drug and gun-related charges.

A Northern Cape lawyer and her alleged accomplice have appeared in the Keimoes Magistrate's Court on possession of drugs charges.

The man has been taken into custody after the body of his wife was found buried in a shack in Nwadzekudzeku village, near Giyani.

Police officers have arrested a man at a house in Polokwane after allegedly finding large quantities of nyaope, crystal meth and drug-manufacturing chemicals.

A man arrested in connection with an alleged kidnapping has been charged with murder after the body of a 16-year-old girl was found in Limpopo.

Truck drivers will be tested for Covid-19 each month by their employers, and not at the border.

A group of local chefs have turned food that would have gone to waste into more than 1.3 million meals for people battling through the Covid-19 pandemic.

As snake expert Nick Evans got stuck in a thorny creeper, a mamba was squeezing tighter and tighter around his neck.