Paarl resident Werner Arendse rushed through the flames to save a baby trapped in the house, risking his life and sustaining severe burns.

KwaZulu-Natal cops have nabbed two men who will be profiled to check if they are responsible for robberies committed in the Melmoth area.

More than 23-million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered in SA so far, the health department says, as it targets 1-million more inoculations this week.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with the recent taxi violence in Johannesburg and Soweto as Gauteng’s anti-taxi violence unit strives to improve commuter safety.

A 45-year-old mother and her son, aged 18, are expected to appear in the Bafokeng magistrate's court in Tlhabane on Monday for possession of suspected stolen livestock.

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The Palestine Solidarity Alliance has accused recently crowned Miss SA Lalela Mswane of not caring about the plight of Palestinians and being "worried about her own self gains".

A 13-year-old Free State pupil was stabbed to death by a child from another school in front of other students and teachers on Friday.

A girl of 13 has died after being struck by lightning in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

The CFO of the SA Heritage Resources Agency (Sahra) was involved in an office punch-up with a manager who was later fired.

The death toll in a crash between a minibus taxi and a truck on the N1 in the Western Cape rose to four on Saturday.

A rehearsal for a traditional Zulu dance ended in tragedy when two people were killed and six injured during a shooting incident in Ulundi, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Friday night.

Table Mountain National Park authorities are cracking down on urns containing cremated remains littering the sprawling nature reserve.

An occupational therapist who has spent nine years fighting for a pay rise she was entitled to is in line for a payout of nearly R1m after achieving victory.

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.