The Gauteng Department of Health says it has put in place contingency plans to ensure that planned water cuts do not affect health facilities. Rand Water announced planned water interruptions from Monday.

The Department of Health has again fallen short of its target to vaccine 500 000 people against Covid-19 over three days.

The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has lashed out at Sports, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa after the government withdrew its support for the Miss South Africa pageant.

An man has been arrested after a shootout and high-speed chase with police in Gqeberha. He was wounded during the incident.

Police are probing separate double murders which took place in Cape Town on Saturday night.

The South African Human Rights Commission is expected to begin its investigations into the July unrest by conducting hearings from Monday.

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The ANC has welcomed the government's withdrawal of support for the Miss South Africa pageant, accusing the organisers of betraying South Africans for not boycotting the Miss Universe pageant that will be held in Israel in December.

In the past three to four years, there have been significantly more enquiries from people who want bodyguards for themselves or their children.

At least five people were killed in a collision involving multiple cars on the N2 near the Umtentweni toll plaza in the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast on Sunday afternoon.

Another inkosi was gunned down in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.

A woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer before dismembering his body with a spade in the North West has died.

The government has withdrawn its support for the Miss South Africa pageant after it was unable to convince organisers to pull out of the Miss Universe pageant which will be held in Israel in December.

The National Arts Council (NAC), which was at the centre of corruption allegations in the disbursement of R300 million meant for artists and creatives, says it has charged its suspended CEO Rosemary Mangope and CFO Clifton Changfoot.

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.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba insists there is no donor with enough financial muscle to have influenced his party's refusal of the EFF's proposal to work with the ANC.

The City of Johannesburg's first inaugural council sitting scheduled for Tuesday will not take place this week.

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has declared rape proceedings in the Durban Regional Court a nullity after it emerged the man who represented the accused was not an admitted attorney at the time.

In its attempt to woo Moroadi Cholota to turn state witness the NPA gave her a written assurance that its interest in her was only as a witness and that she was not “a future accused”.

The funeral of former president, FW de Klerk, who died on Thursday aged 85, will take place on 21 November in a private ceremony, his foundation said in a statement on Sunday.