The Department of Basic Education is inviting candidates to register for the 2021 May/June National Senior Certificate examinations.

Eastern Cape police have uncovered a land theft syndicate selling plots on government farms near the East London Airport.

Streets and bridges in part of the City of Tshwane have had to be temporarily closed and several homes were flooded as flash floods followed heavy rainfall in the area.

At one crime scene, inspectors found that a losing dog, that had been left in a cage to die, had succumbed to its injuries and was hastily buried just hours before the raid.

Anele Mxakaza, a former Idols contestant, testified in the Eastern Cape High Court in Port Elizabeth on Thursday that she and her twin sister, Neliswa, were groomed to please rape-accused televangelist Timothy Omotoso.

South Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccines are on course to touch down at OR Tambo, but they won’t carry the security measures that could best protect them from criminals.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised late musician Sibongile Khumalo for her "unmistakable" voice both on the stage and as an activist.

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The South African National Defence Force has amended its dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear headscarves as part of their uniform, an army spokesperson has said.

The body of Potchefstroom pharmacist George Dannhauser, 37, has been found some 30m from where his kayak capsized on the Boskop Dam.

South Africa has recorded 7 150 new Covid-19 infections, along with 555 new Covid-19-related deaths, taking the confirmed death toll to 43 105.

Her body was briefly spotted by rescue personnel on Monday, before disappearing under the water again.

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A 37-year-old cow herder has been sentenced in the Bloemfontein Regional Court for raping two young boys.

A fire has broken out at a hardware warehouse in Pomona Road , Kempton Park, Johannesburg.

Vincent Bartes, who was found dead in his Welgelegen home, was scalded with boiling water, stabbed and suffocated, the Western Cape National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed.

The Tshwane Metro Police Department has launched an investigation into a video of its officers seemingly assaulting a man.

South Africa has recorded an excess of more than 125 000 natural deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a report by the SA Medical Research Council.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has confirmed that the National Coronavirus Command Council is lawful and constitutional.

The Polokwane High Court in Limpopo continued to hear chilling evidence of how aspiring musician Thoriso Themane met his death.