A fundraising campaign to have Lindani Myeni's body returned to South Africa has raised over R270 000.

The Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came to the rescue of a pony that was found lying along a sandy canal bed in Hanover Park.

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A 16-year-old schoolgirl has been handed a community-based sentence of 12 months after being convicted of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

Two Limpopo police officers have been sentenced to five years' imprisonment after the Mokopane Regional Court found them guilty of corruption.

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has been awarded the highest French order of merit for her defence of the rule of law and fight against corruption.

Mtontsasa Magistrate's Court in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape operates from cobbled-together shipping containers.

The partial burning of the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital has not only affected patients and workers, but business people too.

South Africa recorded 744 new Covid-19 infections by Monday and 21 new Covid-19-related deaths, taking the confirmed death toll to 53 757.

Many of the firefighters risking their lives to bring Cape Town's devastating Table Mountain fire under control are doing so while in a protracted dispute over their shifts, and are worried about being fired.

The Cape Town fire gutted a ministerial home, but there were no injuries, confirms Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) Patricia de Lille.

Suspended Boulders Mall manager Jose Maponyane appeared before the CRL Commission on Monday.

The violent protest, with regard to a string of student demands, including the waiving of student debt and the provision of funding and accommodation, entered its fourth day on Monday.

Capetonians are banding together to show their support for the firefighters battling the fire raging on the mountain.

The formal inquest into the Life Esidimeni tragedy which saw 144 psychiatric patients die, is set to being in July.

Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande has welcomed the swift response to the fire that ravaged part of Cape Town, including sections of UCT, on Sunday and Monday.

Police are on the hunt for an armed gang involved in an robbery on the N4 highway in Gauteng.

Police had to disperse protesters in Mkhondo, Mpumalanga, on Monday as five men appeared in court following the fatal shooting of two brothers on a farm earlier this month.

A 16-year-old pupil has drowned at a Covid-19 quarantine facility in the Free State, according to the provincial health department.

A gang, allegedly involved in the hacking and killing of a 19-year-old in Osizweni, in KwaZulu-Natal, have been arrested.