Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says the State Capture Inquiry will apply for the extension of its term to the end of February.

Businessman Hamilton Ndlovu and others have lost their bid to have a review application against them stayed, pending the determination of an application they intend to institute in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.

South African packaging manufacturers are struggling to get hold of recycled paper amid school and office closures.

The disciplinary proceedings of SABC head of news Phathiswa Magopeni are scheduled to continue for a third day.

Six people have been arrested after Gauteng police discovered 37 boxes of suspected stolen booze.

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A death in police custody is under investigation after a detainee died at a Cape Town police station.

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, South Africa has recorded a total of 3 316 585 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases.

Six people in Mpumalanga have been arrested for fraud, corruption and money laundering worth more than R3 million.

They are called gender-based violence brigades and their mission is herculean: to confront South Africa's plague of femicide and violence against women and children.

The Postbank has a month to tell the Reserve Bank how it will sort out "serious" card security issues – and a year to implement it, or else.

Western Cape health department head Dr Keith Cloete has steered the department through four waves of the pandemic, four variants of Covid-19, more than 540 000 cases and 20 000 deaths.

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.

An investigation into the drowning of two boys who died in a quarry near Mamelodi has concluded that their deaths cannot be attributed to a singular act or omission.

City of Cape Town spokesperson Priya Reddy said a "big supply fault" on Monday evening led to the sudden blackout.

The 20-year-old woman who confessed to orchestrating the murders of her parents and two siblings has made her first appearance in court.

Police Minister Bheki Cele destroyed 20 000 litres of illegal alcohol in the Western Cape on Monday.

The South African Weather Service has warned of severe thunderstorms for parts of Northern Cape.

The Zeerust Magistrate's Court has granted bail to two suspects allegedly found in possession of a lion's head.

The national Department of Education is breathing a sigh of relief after an exam script that went missing after a storm damaged a marking centre in the Free State was found.