Six people have been shot dead in Kagiso on the West Rand in Gauteng.

A conservation activist has become the first person to complete a dangerous swim to and from Dyer Island, in waters that have become renowned for their shark activity.

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the country recorded 2 919 332 laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases as of Saturday.

More than 35 000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 received vaccines over three days.

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Two Nelson Mandela University students have drowned during a DA Student Organisation outing to Sardinia Bay in Gqeberha.

A Nigerian man accused of human trafficking has been handed two life sentences in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

Around 500 endangered Cape cormorants a day are dying of avian flu on Dyer Island.

EFF leader Julius Malema received a roaring welcome from residents in Mitchells Plain as he embarked on a walkabout around the Liberty Promenade Mall, engaging with informal traders and taxi commuters.

An Eastern Cape businessman is expected to appear in court after a Hawk investigation linked him to a case of R3.9 million worth of counterfeit cellular accessories.

In a final push ahead of the municipal elections, DA leader John Steenhuisen has begged citizens to vote with their heads - not their emotions.

Nando's will be terminating its sponsorship of The Burning Platform, following public outrage over comments made by host Garth Cliff.

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.

A senior Eastern Cape education department employee who defrauded two insurance companies has received a two-year suspended sentence and has been ordered to pay back the money.

Police have arrested two people for allegedly kidnapping 11 Ethiopian nationals who were kept in a storage facility in Meadowlands, Soweto.

School sports events - without spectators - have been allowed since August, after they were suspended in May amid the third Covid-19 wave.

Former Tembisa police officer Rosemary Nomia Ndlovu has been convicted of murder on the basis that she ordered that five of her relatives and her lover be killed. But the perpetrators of the murders remain unknown.

Mpumalanga police are investigating an explosion at a Middelburg shop that caused a wall to collapse on a car, killing the man inside it.

A 29-year-old man testified he was not jealous of the wedding of his pastor, John Masilela, and did not falsely accuse of him of sexual assault as a result.

Months have allegedly passed in which just over 90 households have been forced to live in darkness in Boomtown, Soweto.