Police Minister Bheki Cele presents the quarterly crime statistics, reflecting crimes that occurred from 1 October until the end of December 2020.

Muzikayise Malephane has pleaded guilty to the murder of Tshegofatso Pule in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.

Police have intercepted medicines worth R126 million at OR Tambo International Airport, in what they described as a "major breakthrough".

"Let the NPA do whatever they want to do, I'm ready for anything." ANC secretary-general has said ahead of his court appearance in his fraud and corruption trial.

The Early Childhood Development sector is calling on the government to extend the deadline for applications to the ECD Stimulus Relief Fund.

ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, along with his co-accused, appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court on charges in the case related to the Free State asbestos scandal, now transferred to the High Court and postponed until 11 August.

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A total of 2 260 healthcare workers received the Johnson & Johnson vaccination by Thursday night, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Special Investigating Unit has welcomed the disciplinary action instituted against Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba. Two reasons have been cited for her sacking.

A former Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department superintendent is expected to be sentenced in the Gauteng High Court for rape and human trafficking.

IEB schools candidates have achieved a 98.07% matric pass rate - slightly lower than the 98.82% pass rate previously achieved.

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The Western Cape High Court has handed down hefty sentences to five people on 50 counts of copper cable theft-related charges, says power utility Eskom. The group was sentenced to a combined total of 1 250 years in jail.

South Africa has recorded 2 327 new Covid-19 infections, along with 230 new Covid-19-related deaths.

News24 caught up with six matrics from St Andrew's School for Girls and St David's Marist Inanda, both in Johannesburg.

The Student Representative Council at the University of the Witwatersrand is aiming to raise over R21 million to assist students at risk of being financially excluded.

Alongside night clubs, cruise ships have been consistently banned in South Africa. Now a big operator is calling it quits on even trying to get out of harbour until the next season.

They told him to stop the car so that they could relieve themselves but strangled him and stole his car.

Thabang Mohale, 16, and Maropeng Maphoto, 15, were swimming in the Letaba River near Lemondokop Village when they were swept away.

Police arrested a man allegedly in possession of 400 heroin capsules on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast.