The Johannesburg church where late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu served at the height of apartheid will hold daily prayer services in his honour.

The Johannesburg Metro Police Department says it will institute an internal investigation after one of their branded patrol vehicles was stolen by suspects in Senaoane, Soweto on Sunday night.

The High Court in Makhanda on Tuesday ruled that Shell must halt its activities until a second part of an interdict is heard.

Two children have been killed and a third child has been injured in suspected gang violence in Cape Town. The youngest victim was two.

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Two alleged gang members are expected to appear in a Cape Town court following their arrest for the alleged illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.

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.

Calls are mounting for the government to end the Covid-19 curfew before New Year's Eve.

The NICD reports that 3 782 new Covid-19 cases have been identified in South Africa, representing a 22% positivity rate.

As the year draws to a close, News24 looks back on the stories that gripped us as a nation over the last 365 days.

Three people have been arrested in Johannesburg for their alleged involvement in 36 cases of motor vehicle theft, 17 counts of using fraudulent documents, and two counts of possession of suspected stolen property.

Five people have been killed and four others, including two children, have been left injured after a collision on the N4 in Mpumalanga.

Police in the North West have opened an inquest docket after the badly decomposed body of a teenage girl was found in a room she was renting allegedly with her boyfriend.

There is still no word whether Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu's close friend the Dalai Lama would be attending his funeral on Saturday or not.

Five people were killed, and five others left with serious injuries, after a sedan was in a collision with a van on the R71 in Limpopo on Monday.

Tutu (90) suffered from prostate cancer after being diagnosed with the disease in 1997. He was the last surviving South African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The City of Cape Town will be hosting an interfaith service at St George's Cathedral in honour of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Graça Machel has recalled how the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu encouraged her and Nelson Mandela to get married.

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One person has died and eight have been injured in a head-on collision between two cars, Tshwane paramedics say.