The municipal elections are now less than three weeks away. To help News24 readers and viewers separate the wheat from the chaff, editor-in-chief Adriaan Basson will grill candidates in a series of town halls in the run-up to the day.

Four Gauteng police officers have been found guilty of murder and attempted murder in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.

The NSRI says it's rescue units are still searching for a teenage boy who is believed to have drowned at a St Lucia beach in KwaZulu-Natal.

Elgin Fruit Juice in the Western Cape is being investigated as the source of the patulin-induced recalls in South Africa.

The council of St Andrew's College has announced that a retired judge will chair a review board which will look into allegations against its embattled former water polo coach David Mackenzie.

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Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a jewellery store owner in Gauteng.

Four people have been arrested after burglars made off with almost 20 laptops and other items at a Bloemfontein school.

A fire destroyed an unoccupied art gallery building at the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality on Monday night.

Indians from KwaZulu-Natal, in particular, are looking at their options abroad since the July unrest in that province and Gauteng.

Electioneering is in full swing as political parties and their candidates battle it out for a seat in the Western Cape’s only metropolitan municipality - the City of Cape Town.

South Africa has recorded 592 new confirmed Covid-19 infections and 83 deaths, bringing the confirmed death toll to 88 429. To date, 10 218 549 people are fully vaccinated.

The City of Cape Town's anti land invasion policy was taken to task in an application linked to the eviction of Bulelani Qolana last year.

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.

Mpumalanga Premier Refilwe Mtshweni-Tsipane has released Mandla Msibi from his duties as Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs MEC.

Cape Town-based biotech consortium Afrigen is working on a messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccine in an attempt to make up for vaccine shortages on the continent.

For GOOD Cape Town mayoral candidate Brett Herron, the 1 November polls is an opportunity to choose the "future trajectory" for the city and break the "binary social, economic, spatial and environmental injustices in which we are trapped".

Mogoeng Mogoeng has taken strides to vigorously protect its independence and prove itself as the guardian of the Constitution.

A recent study by the University of Stellenboch has raised concerns over the number of kidney specialists the country produces a year.

The "poor health" of the woman who allegedly confessed to killing her husband has forced her bail application to be postponed for the third time.