Three children have died after they consumed rat poison in Bolata village in QwaQwa, Free State.

The Western Cape Department of Health says more than 50 000 people were vaccinated on Friday.

A new board game has been launched in the Cape Winelands and it teaches children about the measures necessary to fight the spread of Covid-19.

Another final-year law student from the University of Fort Hare has died after falling off the 12th floor of a student residence housing more than 400 students at the university's East London campus.

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Limpopo police have opened a case of murder after the discovery of two bodies in a house that was set on fire in NwaXinyamani Village.

A group of Capetonians are calling on the City of Cape Town and Cape Nature to declare an immediate moratorium on the killing of baboons.

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for seven years for possession of child pornographic images.

Western Cape Human Settlements MEC Tertuis Simmers has been elected interim deputy leader of the DA in the Western Cape, becoming the deputy leader of the party in the province.

Poachers have killed and dehorned two white rhinos at a farm in Steynsrus in the Free State.

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has denounced the murder of a Fort Hare law student, saying that "our society cannot continue harbouring such disgraceful people and criminals".

Thorne Webster from Johannesburg was among thousands of Gauteng youngsters who heeded the call to take the Covid-19 vaccine.

While recent research found that over 71% of South Africans are willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, government has indicated its concern with increasing reports of vaccine hesitancy.

SAPS has taken a 40-year-old male in for questioning in connection with the Manenberg cat killings.

A protest against "mandatory vaccination" is planned on the doorstep of one of Cape Town's busiest hospitals, a move described as "disrespectful" for the work being done at the facility.

Pastor Pedro Oktober of the United Reformed Church (URC) in Vredendal lost seven of his congregants to Covid-19.

Former Lew Geffen Sotheby's CEO Jason Rohde appealed his conviction and sentence in the Supreme Court of Appeal. Join us as News24's specialist legal journalist Karyn Maughan explains what is likely to happen next.

South Africa recorded 14 312 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, taking the total to 2 666 964 cases on Friday.

The former Gauteng head of the Hawks, Major-General Prince Mokotedi, was found guilty of serious misconduct for ignoring a directive to put a subordinate through a disciplinary hearing.

President Cyril Ramaphosa's evidence at the Zondo Commission is an indication that he is "guilty as a perpetrator and/or accomplice to corruption", according to suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule.