Although the KZN South Coast is renowned for its sightings of humpback and southern right whales migrating in the cooler months, the sighting of two pods of orcas came as a shock to well-known local fisherman and waterman, Rustin Naidoo.

Rescue personnel are searching for a man who went missing at Wolfgat Nature Reserve in Cape Town following reports of a drowning. Another man was rescued during the incident.

News24 analyses five claims raised by Survé and one of the doctors who accompanied him to determine if they bring us closer to the truth.

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A former Department of Home Affairs official has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment for fraud.

As South Africa considers booster vaccines for some, the United States medicines regulator has approved the “mix and match” use of Covid-19 vaccines.

Illicit cigarettes valued at millions of rands have been confiscated in Limpopo, while one person has been arrested.

Two drivers have been killed and six children were injured following a head-on collision on Marina Road in Nietgedacht, Johannesburg.

According to the Department of Health, 21 924 915 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered. Of those, 191 264 were administered in the last 24-hour reporting cycle.

The City of Tshwane awarded a portion of a suspect fuel tender to a company that paid millions to accounts linked to EFF leaders.

Residents in the Modiri Molema and Mahikeng local municipalities speak about their water woes ahead of municipal elections.

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.

The City of Cape Town says it will approach the Constitutional Court to challenge regulation 70 of the DMA Regulations following an increase in unlawful occupations.

Nine-year-old Luke Mulvey, who lives on a smallholding in Lovemore Park, the Eastern Cape, was attacked on 30 September 2021 by a 250kg sow that he has looked after as a pet for the last two years.

Police in Maokeng, Free State are looking for help in tracing a white Mazda 323 sedan allegedly involved in a hit and run incident that left a man dead.

Do not return ‘tsotsis and crooks” back into office in Tshwane, DA leader John Steenhuisen told Mamelodi residents as the party campaigned in city.

The DA's Gauteng leader, Solly Msimanga, the mayoral candidate for Johannesburg, Mpho Phalatse, and Gauteng chairperson Fred Nel voiced the party's objection to e-tolls at a press briefing.

Enraged Diepkloof residents are adamant that voting in this Soweto community will not go ahead as planned on November 1.

The DA wants to cut R1 billion from the police's budget for VIP protection and use a percentage of it to improve the City of Cape Town's law enforcement.

The Western Cape Department of Agriculture's veterinary services held a two-day, rabies vaccination drive in the Strand area.