Tembisa Hospital has been closed temporarily after a shooting incident in the parking lot.

The Gauteng education department has been given 15 days to say how it will fix infrastructure at a Brakpan school where a teenager was electrocuted. She died after touching the metal door frame of a mobile classroom during a storm in 2017.

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South Africa recorded 2 824 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, which represented an 8.2% positivity rate.

A fire near Ceres in the Western Cape has been largely contained, although firefighters are still on site to battle some remaining flames against an inaccessible cliff on the right flank of the pass.

The Sayed family, whose son, Zayyaan, died after murder-accused Professor Peter Beale operated on him, say it is a "small consolation" the paediatric surgeon is no longer allowed to operate on patients.

A social grant recipient has claimed poverty despite allegedly pocketing more than R3 million from police personal protective equipment tenders.

Beside the hefty cash injections into Mara in South Africa, the company was awarded a contract to supply the government with communications services until 2026.

The Theron's Pass on the R46 between Ceres and Tankwa-Karoo has been closed after a fire broke out on Tuesday.

The General Council of the Bar says advocate Dali Mpofu SC has brought the advocates' profession and the administration of justice into disrepute.

A Zimbabwean woman has been slapped with a R40 000 fine or a two-year imprisonment sentence for the possession of illicit cigarettes.

Free State police are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the lives of two people in Thabong on Tuesday.

Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga says he believes Liqhayiya Tuta, the Unisa LLB student convicted of the 2018 murder of a police officer, was wrongly convicted.

The man accused of the St George's Cathedral fire in Cape Town will have to go for psychiatric treatment for now - the case was not enrolled in court as expected.

The Pretoria Society of Advocates noted that it was perturbed by the behaviour of Dali Mpofu SC and described his performance as "unacceptable".

A 33-year-old man has died after his bakkie plunged down the Voëlklip cliff near George, Western Cape paramedics say.

The Durban University of Technology's City Campus was petrol-bombed in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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The magistrate in the case of a Walter Sisulu University student, who unlawfully used National Student Financial Aid Scheme funds, said she found the testimony of State witnesses to be truthful, honest and reliable.

The Saint George Hotel and Conference Centre in Pretoria has closed its doors, citing the Covid-19 pandemic, load shedding, and general service delivery failures as reasons.