Trailer hire companies have heaved a sigh of relief after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) confirmed that they are not liable for traffic offences committed by their clients.

Long-time leader Yoweri Museveni held a commanding lead in Uganda's presidential election according to partial results on Saturday morning, with final results expected later in the day, although his main rival Bobi Wine alleged widespread fraud.

The Black Sash has called for the intervention of President Cyril Ramaphosa after police turned a water cannon on social grant applicants queueing outside a South African Social Security Agency office in Cape Town on Friday.

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SA recorded 14,880 new Covid-19 related cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday night.

A former Sars customs official who was bust for fraudulently issuing Sadc certificates has been sentenced to an effective six years in jail.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala has warned that the destruction of 5G towers will be treated as an act of criminality.

Although 2020 saw a nine-year low in service delivery protests, much of this can be attributed to lockdown months.

A campaign launched by emerging civil society group the C19 People’s Coalition is calling for the support of South Africans to ensure that access to and allocation of the Covid-19 vaccine is free and fair.

Several graves at the Olifantsvlei cemetery have caved in following heavy flooding, City Parks said.

Parents and pupils have voiced their concerns about the basic education department’s decision to delay the reopening of schools due to the spread of Covid-19 infections across SA.

Teacher unions are outraged by the department of basic education’s decision to get school management teams (SMTs) and teachers to return to school weeks before pupils arrive.

It remains to be seen whether parents will send their children back to school on February 15, the new reopening date announced by basic education department officials on Friday.

Deputy minister Dr Reginah Mhaule said the decision to delay the reopening of schools received the support of various education stakeholders.

Incarcerated Zimbabwean journalist has resorted to writing letters from prison as he fights his latest arrest.

Police minister Bheki Cele's spokesperson Lirandzu Themba denied an accusation that police resources were being misspent on monitoring people on the country's beaches.

On September 23 2020, a Middelburg woman wakes up to find an intruder in her home. She is forced to make a decision that will change both of their lives forever.

Veteran broadcaster Welcome 'Bhodloza' Nzimande has died.

Here's one way to deal with anti-vaccine messages in your WhatsApp groups.

A man was found hanging from a tree in Bloemfontein on Thursday morning.

By insisting that former president Jacob Zuma had to appear before the State Capture Commission, the commission was seeking to undermine a pending Constitutional Court judgment, said Zuma’s lawyer in a letter on Friday. A letter from Mabuza Attorne...

A gang of robbers are on the run after robbing a jewellery store at the Gateway shopping centre in Umhlanga, north of Durban, on Friday.

The woman’s daughter, 10, was one of 87 pupils who accused a school security guard of sexual abuse and rape at AB Xuma Primary School in Orlando in October 2017.

A US judge on Thursday denied a request by Native Americans to block the Trump administration from publishing an environmental study that would trigger a land swap needed by Rio Tinto Ltd to build a copper mine in Arizona.

During his bail application at the Humansdorp magistrate’s court yesterday, a grim picture emerged of a tumultuous relationship riddled with abuse and accusations of extramarital affairs.

Indonesian divers have found the casing of a cockpit voice recorder from a Sriwijaya Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea last week, but are still searching for its memory unit, navy officer Abdul Rasyid said on Friday.

A man allegedly attempting to hijack a Porsche Cayenne died in a shooting on Old Johannesburg Road near the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on Thursday.

Hospitals in Brazil's northern state of Amazonas ran short of oxygen and made an urgent call for help from the US on Thursday, as Britain slapped a ban on new arrivals from Brazil over fears of a new home-grown coronavirus variant.

Uganda's opposition front-runner in this week's presidential election said on Friday he rejected early preliminary results released by the electoral commission.

France has announced that people travelling from non-EU countries will no longer be able to get into the country by presenting a negative result from a quick, readily-available Covid-19 test.