A student waiting with his friends for newspapers containing their matric results was shot dead by robbers.

Sanitiser in homemade beer, dirty municipal drinking water and contaminated cake filling were behind some of the latest stomach bugs investigated by SA's team of intestinal disease experts.

When Covid-19 hit SA and stigmatisation was at its peak, many healthcare workers were shunned in their communities due to fear of the virus.

A Limpopo businessman has been hauled to court for alleged fraud involving farming equipment worth R121,000.

The Hawks seized drugs worth R1.2m in Beaufort West in the Western Cape on Friday and arrested a 35-year-old suspect.

Durban firefighters were still tackling a blaze at the China Emporium in the city centre on Saturday.

Three abalone poachers have been fined R100,000 each after they were bust for running an illegal processing facility in Cape Town.

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A South African court on Friday postponed a ruling on a lawsuit from descendants of South Africa's earliest inhabitants, the Khoi and San, to try to halt construction of Amazon's new Africa headquarters on what they say is sacred land.

Fixed-line and mobile operator is still going ahead with its court challenge of the process of auctioning the spectrum that is vital to rolling out 5G technology

A 54-year-old man who has been on the run since 2012 for allegedly stealing Krugerrands worth R7.8m was nabbed in Knysna in the Western Cape on Thursday.

“It would be an insult to justice for murderer Donovan Moodley to be released on parole,” is the recommendation of the Johannesburg Correctional Services Medium B Prison parole board after a marathon hearing on Friday.

As of Friday there were 6,892 people admitted to public and private hospitals in SA with Covid-19.

In Zimbabwe’s second city, government medical staff are going door-to-door with Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to boost a stalled vaccine programme in the latest indication of how Africa’s drive has now switched from sourcing doses to persuading peop...

'We advise applicants not to book flights before they receive their visa, not least so they can avoid extra expense in having to change their plans.'

Tears of joy and screams of delight were shared as nervous Nelson Mandela Bay matriculants collected their report cards, signalling the start of a new phase in their lives.

Pupils at Scottsville Secondary School in Kraaifontein, Cape Town, did not let their circumstances dampen their spirits: they doubled their matric pass rate from 29.5% in 2020 to 64.0% in 2021.

Department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo says Moodley completed the minimum period of his sentence in 2018 and has been eligible for parole since then.

The mother of a matriculant who is Gauteng's top performing township pupil is thrilled her son bagged the prestigious award –and landed a fully paid bursary from the provincial government for his entire university career.

A sizzling weekend can be expected in parts of the Western and Northern Cape as temperatures are expected to soar above 40°C in some areas.

At the centre of the dispute are allegations that Makaziwe Mandela removed heritage objects from Mandela’s Houghton house without permission

SA's key supplier of liquid gas chlorine - used by water boards and municipalities to bring water to drinking standard - is hoping to start ramping up delivery of the critical ingredient again by Sunday.

Pupils in the matric class of 2022 should start studying from the first term, says one of KwaZulu-Natal’s top pupils of 2021, Maryam Mather.

Education expert and University of Johannesburg associate professor Nicky Roberts says the 2021 matric class did well, especially given they experienced a full year of Covid-19 and associated disruptions.

He's known as SWB12 and faces various fates that run the gamut from "euthanasia" to "alpha male".

At least 13 people sustained minor to moderate injuries after a fire broke out at the China Emporium on the corner of Anton Lembede and Brook streets in Durban's CBD on Friday.

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi on Friday used the achievements of the province's matric pupils as an opportunity to criticise One SA Movement leader Mmusi Maimane.

Amelia Paschke, one of former president PW Botha's five children, died in a car crash shortly after a ceremony to bid farewell to her daughter, who died of natural causes earlier this month.

Frank Kennan Dutton will arguably go down as one of country's greatest detectives, whose work resulted in major breakthroughs in crimes against humanity in countries across the globe and on South African soil.

Zimbabwe's MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora has suspended his deputy Thokozani Khupe with immediate effect.