Snoekie the sniffer dog has outfoxed an alleged drug smuggler attempting to transport Mandrax worth R800,000 to Cape Town.

A trio of alleged drug smugglers have been bust by police while transporting heroin worth nearly R7m from Mozambique to Empangeni.

About 35% of South Africans are fully vaccinated, just half the government's year-end target.

Sipho Pityana, who was fired by Absa as a board director after refusing to resign, will take the bank's decision to court.

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After being brought in to the Community Led Animal Welfare (Claw) hospital in a wheelbarrow and having a few weeks of intensive cage care and rest, township dog Poison has been happily reunited with his delighted owner.

Clad in a black suit, the former social development minister was accompanied by a handful of supporters wearing ANC regalia.

New Zealand will keep its borders closed to most international travellers for a further five months, the government said on Wednesday, outlining a cautious easing of coronavirus border curbs that have been in place for nearly two years.

The two men were sentenced in the Mokerong and Musina regional courts on Monday and Tuesday respectively.

Sipho Pityana has been removed from the Absa board with immediate effect, the banking group said on Wednesday, due to "dereliction" of his board responsibilities.

Despite a high number of Covid-19 infections, 31,521 out of 86,630 health workers employed by the Gauteng health department are not fully vaccinated.

Water trucks began delivering water to most of the city on Wednesday morning, with the city’s reservoir levels critically low due to burst pipes.

A Gqeberha-based medical doctor has been censured for fraudulently issuing medical certificates required by drivers applying for professional driving permits, says the Road Traffic Management Corporation.

Nhlanhla Lux Dlamini, a member of the "Soweto Parliament" who helped guard the Maponya Mall during looting and vandalism in July, will lead a march to the SA Human Rights Commission offices in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

The perjury case against former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini starts on Wednesday at the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.

An elderly man who left his wife at home with a gardener returned to find her dead in a pool of blood.

Newcastle mayor Ntuthuko Mahlaba has been fined R20,000.

According to the World Health Organisation, there is “no evidence of a direct connection between climate change and the emergence or transmission of Covid-19".

“Up to the point of their entry into shelters many of the women interviewed had experienced years of abuse. Some had experienced lifetimes of abuse, since childhood."

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Efforts to implement restorative justice in various scenarios across South Africa are bearing fruit.

Gift of the Givers provided aid to residents along the Garden Route in the form of food parcels, blankets, hygiene packs and bottled water on Tuesday.

SA recorded 868 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with Gauteng again accounting for the vast majority.

The full bench Johannesburg High Court upheld an appeal by a security officer against the conviction of murder and attempted murder by the high court in November 2017 relating to road rage.

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The challenge brought by four organisations against regulations prohibiting faith-based gatherings under lockdown regulations is academic because those rules were replaced, counsel for the government said.

Gauteng recorded 15 fewer cash-in-transit robberies between July and September compared to the same period last year.

The July unrest was one of the main contributors to the increase in arson and malicious damage to property cases in Gauteng, the latest available crime stats show.

Out of SA’s 30 worst-hit police stations in terms of murder cases, six in Gauteng feature on the list, according to provincial crime statistics for July to September.

Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s conduct in banning faith-based gatherings must be irrational if she has not given any rational reason for the ban, says Freedom of Religion SA.