A 21-year-old woman drowned in the Clanwilliam Dam in the Western Cape on Saturday.

The 10-day requirement to quarantine when you have come into contact with a Covid-19 case, and the subsequent contact tracing, could soon become a thing of the past if health minister Joe Phaahla approves a proposal to discontinue these prerequisites...

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The Omicron variant of Covid-19, revealed by SA scientists just 23 days ago, has been reported in 89 countries, the World Health Organisation said on Saturday.

Police said they may have averted ATM or cash-in-transit bombings by recovering explosives from an abandoned house in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.

A mouse has been spotted on Gough Island, prompting international alarm.

Massive price hikes, a failure to build new power generators and invest in alternative energy,  pollution by non-compliant power stations – and now SA is facing another electricity tariff hike and possible “continuous stage 8 load-shedding”.

An Eastern Cape police officer charged with kidnapping a shop owner has forfeited her vehicle to the state.

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Only one out of 24,519 matric exam scripts is missing after a storm ripped the roof off a Free State high school being used as a marking centre.

Police confiscated two vehicles from suspects who were arrested for illegal possession of West Coast rock lobster tails this week.

Narwhals, the "unicorns of the sea" that live in the Arctic, have transmitted a 12,000km distress signal to the sea creatures in the path of a seismic survey off the Wild Coast of SA.

A Western Cape police officer sustained a gunshot wound during a shoot-out with suspected farm robbers.

The eThekwini municipality is investigating an incident caught on video in which one of its employees was seen driving inside the Galleria Mall in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban.

Three people were taken to hospital after they were stung by a large swarm of bees while on a boat cruise on the Kowie River in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.

Of the new cases, Gauteng recorded the highest number (5,850), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (5,134) and the Western Cape (3,655).

The world’s biggest survey ship, the Amazon Warrior, has at least the weekend to continue its seismic blasting for Shell along the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast.

Disgraced property mogul Jason Rohde has run out of options after the Constitutional Court dismissed his application for leave to appeal against his murder conviction.

18-year-old Sazi Bongwe from Oaklands, Johannesburg, received confirmation of his admission to the Ivy League institution on Friday morning.

There’s no law compelling a store to take back a cellphone if you have a change of heart, given that it is not defective.

Drugs with an estimated value of R10m were discovered abandoned on Oyster Bay’s main beach on Friday morning.

Authorities in Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that emerged in early October in North Kivu province and infected 11 people, killing six of them.

Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe was ignorant and gravely insulting when he accused communities along the Wild Coast who are challenging Shell’s seismic survey of “engaging in colonialism and apartheid of a special sort”, it...

On August 28 2000, Leslie van Zyl checked into room 205 at the Protea Hotel in George, in the Western Cape. She never left.

A group from God’s Church Must Rise (GCMR) is demanding the public and private sector stop “harassing” workers to provide Covid-19 vaccine certificates.

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been told to #PayBackTheMoney.

The SA Medical Research Council’s waste water surveillance team has detected rapidly rising concentrations of Covid-19 fragments in samples collected from facilities in rural areas.