Artists gathered at Artscape in Cape Town to demand answers from the National Arts Council over relief funding meant to support artists affected by the pandemic and economic crunch.

The acting director-general of the State Security Agency, Loyiso Jafta, has been replaced as the head of the spy agency after his acting term lapsed.

According to a statement by Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, as of Saturday, the country recorded a total of 1 544 466 confirmed Covid-19 cases.

If an employer can prove that a staff member has behaved recklessly, endangering co-workers in the process, it can take disciplinary action.

More than 70 crocodiles have been recaptured, as an investigation into how they were able to escape a Bonnievale farm gets underway.

The South African government will deploy additional staff to its mission in Maputo to assist in locating those affected by a militant siege in Palma, Mozambique.

The Two Oceans Aquarium has appealed to the public to assist in rescuing stranded sea turtle hatchlings on Western Cape beaches.

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A Wolsley woman has been murdered during an apparent robbery at her home on a private nature reserve estate.

A study by a Stellenbosch University-based researcher has found that a number of children diagnosed with TB at hospitals are not reported to their local childcare facilities.

Two pet sitters have been charged with animal cruelty for allegedly abusing a puppy, after the Cape of Good Hope SPCA investigated the incident.

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal is holding its provincial congress, where a number of leadership positions were filled.

On 27 March 2020, exactly a year ago, before a single person died of Covid-19 in South Africa, the country was put under a stringent lockdown - one of the strictest in the world.

The body of Mike Reilly, who went missing on Sunday evening, has been found in Silvermine Dam in the Table Mountain National Park.

A man wanted for serious crimes, including a murder, has been arrested in Gauteng after failing to stop at a roadblock while driving a luxury SUV, according to police.

More details have emerged about how expats and villagers were left to fend for themselves for the past three days as Palma, in northern Mozambique, was overrun and besieged by a around 100 jihadist insurgents.

Retired SA Army intelligence chief, General Mojo Motau, found that no one was at Luthuli House when he went there to deliver a message to the ANC's national executive committee.

Cape Town's croissant baker had to switch off the stove and put on her midwife cap when she had to help a mother in distress deliver her baby.

Limpopo police are searching for the perpetrators of the murder of a 30-year-old mom and her 7-year-old daughter, after their bodies were found in bushes outside Tzaneen.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and comrades of former deputy minister, Elizabeth Thabethe, after she died in hospital.