The Middleburg Commercial Crimes Court in Mpumalanga sentenced Arthur Moyo to 15 years in prison for purchasing vehicles worth R1.5 million using stolen identity documents.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate is probing the death of a traditional healer who died after he was shot in Witpoort in the North West while police were trying to rescue a woman who stayed with him.

A 37-year-old man who's been on the run since 2017 after he allegedly made off with R2 million in a cash-in-transit vehicle in 2017, has finally been apprehended.

Police in Limpopo have arrested four taxi operators for allegedly killing a taxi owner and his companion at a petrol station last month.

The man accused of attacking his neighbour with a chainsaw in Franschhoek was on Friday released on bail of R1 000.

The family of two missing brothers who were killed in an alleged mob justice attack, says they desperately want the police to help them find the men's bodies.,

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Former president Jacob Zuma dominated the headlines this week after the Department of Correctional Services announced his release on medical parole.

KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape have contributed the majority of the new confirmed Covid-19 cases.

The Bloemfontein Magistrate's Court released the fraud-accused former municipal manager of the Mafube municipality on R10 000 bail.

After a spate of gender-based violence and femicide rocked the country in 2018, three GBV bills were introduced in Parliament.

South African scientists are studying ways to inject radioactive material into rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border posts, a move to discourage poaching, a researcher said.

A man, who allegedly killed an 80-year-old woman at an old age home in Polokwane, Limpopo, has been sent for mental observation.

Deputy President David Mabuza paid for his own flight and medical costs when he visited Russia for medical treatment.

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.

Private hospital group Mediclinic Southern Africa says it is also seeing mainly unvaccinated patients requiring serious care for Covid-19 at its hospitals.

The District Six Working Committee, the organisation which spearheaded a court case against the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to compel it to ensure claimants return to the area, is mulling further litigation.

Several government websites, with the gov.za domain, were down on Friday due to fibre cable damage.

Yibanathi Macgyver Ndema who was arrested in connection with the murder of his wife, who had been missing for two years, has abandoned his bail application.

Oakdene is one of six areas receiving water from the South Hills tower, which was hit by water supply interruptions last week.