One day after police arrested a "wanted hitman" for a spate of murders at the notorious Glebelands hostel in Umlazi on Friday, three teenagers were shot and wounded in their room by an unknown gunman.

Residents of Sharpeville are facing a serious health hazard due to a dysfunctional sewerage system and the absence of refuse collection in Emfuleni.

The V&A Waterfront in Cape Town says it will boost its security following a stabbing incident involving youngsters at the weekend.

A man has been killed and another assaulted in the North West, where a community has complained about a spate of housebreakings and robberies.

When graduates Makgotso Lekganyane and Lehutso Serage could not find work months after obtaining their degrees, they had to come up with plans.

Ruthlessly exploited by a protection racket that has already seen four Somalis killed and a fifth critically injured this past week, these men and women feel stuck.

First-day jitters are always a part of schooling, and it was no different on Monday as the 2021 school year started in SA.

Parts of the M4 and Mangosuthu highways, south of Durban, were blockaded with burning debris on Monday morning as aggrieved community members took to the streets to protest about the lack of formal housing.

A woman was airlifted to hospital after she slipped and fractured her right ankle on a Magaliesberg mountain on Saturday afternoon, paramedics said.

Mpumalanga police commissioner Lt-Gen Mondli Zuma has called on officers to seek urgent help when faced with domestic challenges following a tragic shooting incident involving a female officer.

Three people were killed in a horror crash on the R101 in Bela-Bela in Limpopo at the weekend.

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If you question the origins of this day, you will be very unpopular.

The Hawks have arrested two men after they were found in possession of rhino horn and suspected stolen property in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape.

As travel-starved South Africans look for brief breaks, tourism authorities on KwaZulu-Natal's north coast have their fingers crossed for a bumper Easter holiday season.

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are expecting their second child.

New York City police were questioning a person of interest in the spate of subway stabbing attacks that left two people dead, authorities said on Sunday.

After a Covid-enforced delayed start to the 2021 year, it's all systems go when schools reopen on Monday.

At least 47 people were injured when a truck rolled on the R50 in Brendan Village towards Standerton, Mpumalanga, on Sunday morning.

While the true extent of the 2020 matric examination leaks might never be known, officials investigating these irregularities are emphatic that the exams have not been compromised.

Rescuers pulled out nine more bodies from the site of a flash flood in a Himalayan region of northern India on Sunday, a week after the disaster struck, bringing the death toll to 50 with more than 150 people still missing, officials said.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal say they have nabbed a "most wanted hitman" sought for a spate of murders at the notorious Glebelands hostel in Umlazi.

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old brewery that could produce thousands of litres of beer in the ancient Egyptian city of Abydos, Egypt's tourism and antiquities ministry said.

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The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of SA (Naptosa) says not all of SA's schools are ready to receive pupils on Monday.

The Mdatsane regional court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to 25 years in prison for his involvement in an armed robbery of a tobacco vehicle in 2015.

A 28-year-old man from Limpopo will appear at the Polokwane magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of fraud and corruption after he allegedly scammed several job seekers out of thousands of rand by posing as a police captain.

"So, we are saying to our people, in enjoying this day, do not get carried away. Let us be responsible, and not find ourselves with babies called Valentine’s and Phutha Liyenzeka (Mistakes Happen) by November."

The government has declared tropical storm Eloise a national disaster.

Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has officially extended the Disaster Management Act for another month.