Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo says she has the sole prerogative to determine wage increases for senior government officials - not labour unions.

A man who is accused of murder after body parts were found in his fridge, is back in the Protea Magistrate's Court after spending a month in a psychiatric institution.

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More than 900 women were murdered from October to December 2021, according to the police's latest crime statistics.

Delta Air Lines has requested nonstop flights from Atlanta to Cape Town, after South Africa’s department of transport controversially denied a triangular route with Johannesburg.

Five people have died in a fire in Site B, Khayelitsha in Cape Town.

A man has drowned at Thompson's Bay Beach in the holiday town of Ballito in KwaZulu-Natal. According to the National Sea Rescue Institute, the drowning was reported by eyewitnesses.

A KwaZulu-Natal man has been sentenced for the robbery and murder of a police officer. He was shot dead after being robbed of his service pistol on 21 September 2018.

Eastern Cape police are offering a reward of R100 000 for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of an escaped prisoner. Sibusiso Nzuzo.

A "low level" outbreak of typhoid over the past two years is being monitored by the NICD, with clusters detected in the Western Cape and North West.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says South Africa has recorded 3 056 new Covid-19 infections. Seventeen new Covid-19-related deaths have been recorded.

The school governing body of Hoërskool Jan Viljoen in Randfontein, which is currently embroiled in an alleged racism row, has agreed to suspend a teacher who is accused of sexual harassment.

The IDC is considering offers for South Africa's first smartphone factory.

Former State Security Agency finance clerk, Kgaogelo Bopape, 53, was convicted of theft in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court.

A case of robbery and murder was opened for investigation. No arrests have been made.

An Eastern Cape schoolboy who had just witnessed his father being stabbed to death by a suspected street robber, took a firearm from his lifeless body before shooting dead the suspect.

An emotional Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema detailed the pain that continues to haunt him after witnessing his mother being victimised by a group of apartheid policemen, when he testified in the Equality Court in AfriForum's "Kill the...

Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya urged South Africans to participate in Census 2022.

The State Security Agency has rejected claims that it is protecting the interests of individuals in private legal battles.

The ANC used its majoritarian muscle on Wednesday evening to prevent Scopa from holding the president to account.