South Africa is taking the lead in the development of a maternal vaccine against group B Streptococcus (GBS), which can kill newborns and cause maternal complications.

Ahjay Naraindass was fired after threatening colleagues at a Durban high school with an iron rod and hurling a Tamil slur at the principal.

The Hawks have seized 500 bank cards from a suspected loan shark in Mpumalanga.

Police are probing a shooting at a council office in KwaMashu, north of Durban, in which a man died.

A suspected fraudster has been arrested for allegedly swindling a property buyer out of more than R1m.

A Gauteng man is due in court following his arrest after a shoot-out with police.

A wealthy 63-year-old businessman who unleashed an abusive e-mail attack on a senior Johannesburg attorney in defiance of an interdict has been fined R70,000.

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A Durban man has been sentenced to 18 years behind bars for defrauding First National Bank of millions of rand.

A Gauteng mechanic is awaiting sentencing after he was bust for swindling police out of more than R90,000.

An 80-year-old German tourist escaped with minor injuries after his vehicle rolled 50m down Sani Pass in KwaZulu-Natal on Friday.

Two Eskom employees at the Tutuka power station appeared in the Standerton magistrate’s court on Friday for the theft of about R100m worth of fuel oil a month.

SA recorded 339 new Covid-19 cases and 44 deaths in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Friday.

Two men in the Northern Cape have been arrested for practising medicine without being registered with the Health Professions Council of SA.

An Eastern Cape municipal manager appeared in court on Friday in connection with R18m in unaccounted expenditure at the King Sabata Dalindyebo local municipality.

The former police officer on Friday turned around in the court room and told witnesses who testified against her that she would be back for them.

Shortly before their British Airways flight touched down in Cape Town on Wednesday morning, the pilot told the passengers not to be alarmed at the sight of emergency vehicles waiting at the side of the runway.

Members of the Mamelodi Local and Long-distance Taxi Association (Malldta) marched to the Silverton police station in Tshwane on Friday to hand over a memorandum of their demands after five taxi drivers were murdered in ongoing violence.

Police are investigating after an unknown man was found dead, handcuffed and with bruises all over his body, in the garage in an unused government building on Friday.

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Killer cop Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been given six life sentences for a string of murders she orchestrated.

A 12 EU parliament members delegation received a tour inside a cross-border tunnel from Lebanon into northern Israel, intended for use by Hezbollah militants.

The scene of horror police found when they entered the house was beyond anything most had seen during their careers.

The lake - once one of the largest in West Africa - used to be fed by annual flooding from the Niger River. But it started to disappear after catastrophic droughts in the 1970s, forcing more than 200,000 people to abandon their traditional livelihood...

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin against the US government over NASA's decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to rival billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX.

The man charged with abducting a four-year-old girl from an outback campsite in Western Australia was flown 600 miles (960 km) to a maximum security prison in Perth on Friday, the state's Justice Department said.

A bus passenger arrested for alleged possession of drugs worth R2.2m appeared in the Beaufort West magistrate's court on Friday.

SA doctors have united in their call to urge government to initiate a review into the country’s culpable homicide law and its application in a healthcare setting.

The bail application of six men accused of killing Gauteng health department whistle-blower Babita Deokaran continued in the Johannesburg magistrate's court on Friday.