A popular Westville restaurant has become a hot potato, pitting residents against each other in the Durban suburb.

Parliament's portfolio committee on police is concerned about the high number of liquor outlets in Thembisa on the East Rand and has urged the Gauteng Liquor Board to review its processes for issuing liquor licences to taverns and shebeens.

US payments firms Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc on Saturday said they were suspending operations in Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, and that they would work with clients and partners to cease all transactions there.

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Free State police are searching for four men who kidnapped a man and robbed him of R12,700 in Odendaalsrus this week.

Christmas has come early for primary school pupils in one of Cape Town’s impoverished communities.

A South African TV news producer and her four crew have been evacuated from Ukraine after two of them were shot by a suspected Russian "death squad".

The department of home affairs will this month start recruiting 10,000 youths to digitise its paper system.

A group of worshippers in a mosque in Kabokweni in Mpumalanga were robbed at gunpoint during a prayer service, provincial police said on Saturday.

Durban police have seized cobalt worth R6.5m at a warehouse in the city.

A Dutch businessman accused of swindling a bank of R6.8m has failed to convince the Cape Town high court to dismiss the charges against him.

Gauteng cops have arrested a 38-year-old man for possession of dagga worth R1m.

A Zimbabwean has been fined R10,000 in Cape Town for unlawful possession of ivory.

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Paying for sex is prevalent among African men with 1 in 10 of them using the services of sex workers, suggests new research.

With war escalating in Ukraine, sports and entertainment organisations have been stepping up the culture ban against Russia.

The high court in Johannesburg viewed footage of some of the last moments of Tshegofatso Pule’s life on Friday.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Friday reported that 1,898 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA.

Mvelo Majola was sentenced to six years' imprisonment by the Durban regional court on Friday after he pleaded guilty to the theft of a motor vehicle during the looting and civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said it will study a judgment by the Johannesburg hig court, which found that trade unionist and activist Dr Neil Aggett’s 1982 death was not a suicide, to determine, with the necessary urgency, the course o...

Armed with impressive matric results and lots of ambition, the 16 lucky winners scored themselves life-changing bursaries to study towards a degree or diploma course of their choice.

Britain's BBC said on Friday it would temporarily suspend the work of all its journalists and support staff in Russia after the introduction of a new law that could jail anyone found to be intentionally spreading "fake" news.

Ntuthuko Shoba, the man alleged to be the mastermind behind his heavily pregnant girlfriend Tshegofatso Pule’s murder in June 2020, was successful in his bid to have his case reopened on Friday.

Lawyers for the SA National Defence Union (Sandu) have written a letter to defence minister Thandi Modise asking for immediate action to be taken to fix the broken air conditioning system at defence headquarters in Tshwane.

A Catholic bishop accused of sexually abusing young men studying to be priests was found guilty by a court in northern Argentina on Friday, capping over a week of often graphic testimony in the latest sex crimes criminal case to hit the global church...

A 15-year-old Pinetown boy is fighting for his life after a stabbing incident outside his school.

Eskom has decided to defer the replacement of steam generators at unit 2 of its Koeberg nuclear power station, owing to concerns it will worsen an energy crunch, senior officials said on Friday.

A 40-year-old man from Ermelo, Mpumalanga, who won the Sportstake 13 jackpot of more than R1.8m in a draw on Monday will carry on working and "live as normally as possible".