A 56-year-old man from Klawer in the Western Cape has been arrested for murder after police officers found human remains on his premises while they were searching for a missing 13-year-old boy.

A man accused of killing seven of his family members on Christmas Day in Jimmy Jones Village has been denied bail.

Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says she always acted in Denel's best interests, despite the Zondo Commission's findings against her.

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The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department is headed to court over Unity Fellowship Church billboards depicting police brutality.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says he believes that as the country moves closer to winter, there will be an expectation of a fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. South Africa has officially reached the end of the fourth wave.

SABC board chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini said he didn't have a hand in the dismissal of the head of news, Phathiswa Magopeni.

The South African Weather Service warns that thundershowers are expected to affect large parts of KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.

A former furniture shop employee was granted bail after allegedly defrauding her employer of approximately R630 000.

A caregiver and two orphans, aged six and seven, perished after the orphanage in Villa Lisa went up in flames.

The mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccine produced at the World Health Organisation-backed vaccine hub in South Africa could take up to three years to get approval if companies do not share their technology and data.

Two school children have died and six were left seriously injured following a taxi and truck crash on the R103 near Rosetta on Friday afternoon.

Harrington Johnson Wands Attorneys said the Porsche driver would appear in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Monday after an agreement was reached with the defence attorney and prosecutors.

WhatsApp messages between Tshegofatso Pule and the man accused of masterminding her murder reveal a rollercoaster of emotions, tiffs and support in the months leading up to her murder.

There were an estimated 70 customers and close to 50 staff members when the fire broke out.

The Qumbu Regional Court has sentenced a 31-year-old man to life imprisonment for raping his late father's former girlfriend. The woman is the mother of the rapist's half-brother.

News24 readers can follow our coverage of the interviews for the position of chief justice, with up-to-the-minute analysis from News24 senior legal journalist Karyn Maughan and News24's assistant editor for in-depth news, Pieter du Toit.

Mervyn Dirks was placed on precautionary suspension after calling for Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts to investigate President Cyril Ramaphosa.

"Through the work of this commission, I have made a lot of enemies for myself, but it is not as if I did not know that taking this kind of job will land me in that situation. I knew," Justice Raymond Zondo has said during his JSC interview.

Large parts of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro are covered in piles of rubbish because only 11 of 36 municipal rubbish trucks are working. The metro says 25 trucks have been at repairs since 25 January.