The State has alleged that a 36-year-old Twitter influencer is one of the instigators who ignited widespread unrest and looting in July.

IPID officers are shocked after a North West theft suspect killed himself in what they believe to be a case involving 'the worst negligence they have ever come across in their lives'.

South African social justice activist Catherine Constantinides is on a mission to highlight the importance of Covid-19 vaccines as the disease continues its grip on the country during a third wave of infections.

Eighteen people have been arrested in connection with the recent unrest in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal and some have appeared in court this week.

Rescuers have come to the aid of a woman stuck on a mountain in Franschhoek in the Western Cape after she apparently slipped on the Uitkyk hiking trail.

Altron Fintech's index found that South African households were "better able to incur and manage debt than before the pandemic began".

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The South African Geographical Names Council, which recommends name changes, needs members nominated before the end of September.

Heavy rain has caused dunes at a decommissioned landfill site to shift, spilling litter onto a Cape Town beach.

A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a 6-year-old Limpopo girl who went missing in a village.

South Africa recorded 5 644 new laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 infections on Monday and 235 deaths, bringing the confirmed death toll to 81 830.

Mpumalanga man Warren Brett Smith has been arrested in connection with an R11.5 million fraud case. He will go on trial with seven other co-accused.

Alleged underworld boss Nafiz Modack was so angry that police had arrested his wife Riana in a gun licensing investigation run by Anti-Gang Unit detective Charl Kinnear, that he allegedly began marshalling contacts in a bid to scare Kinnear off.

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.

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato has visited the family of two-year-old Imthandile Mbadamane who died after falling into a sewage drain on Sunday afternoon in Green Point, Khayelitsha.

A grade eight pupil at an Alexandra High school has been killed after being stabbed to death, allegedly by a fellow pupil, on school grounds.

The fatal car accident that claimed the lives of two people and left Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Nqaba Bhanga in an intensive care unit after he drove on the streets of Gqeberha after curfew, shows that Bhanga is an ‘unguided missile’ and is not fit...

Former Gauteng health MEC Qedani Mahlangu argues the Life Esidimeni deaths cannot be attributed to her.

On Monday, The University of Cape Town and the Western Cape Health Department launched a vaccination site in Mowbray, Cape Town.

Tuesday will bring with it cool to cold conditions across the country, the South African Weather Service says.