Eight people have been killed and four are fighting for their lives following three separate vehicle accidents in Gauteng.

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A 54-year-old former police warrant officer has been sentenced to six years imprisonment for extorting money from a man he had arrested for dealing in drugs.

As of Friday, there have been 1 671 new Covid-19 infections identified, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Gauteng police have launched a hunt for seven men who broke into the Musallah Fatah Mosque in Lenasia and stole valuable items, including a television set and laptop.

Gracelyn "Gracey" Green may only have a few months to find a stem cell donor, as she fights a rare form of blood cancer.

Several ceasefire agreements to allow citizens to flee cities have failed.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA has confiscated four pit bulls from an alleged gang leader's house in Kraaifontein, Cape Town.

The murder of women by their intimate partners is decreasing, according to research carried out over almost two decades, but the development is far from reassuring, anti-gender-based violence organisations say.

Customers in Gordons Bay, Somerset West and Strand are without electricity after vandals damaged Eskom's Lourensrivier substation.

A 38-year-old man has been arrested after he allegedly murdered his wife following an argument about a cellphone call she made while he was sleeping.

A Golden Arrow bus has been torched in Cape Town, as Metrorail reels from a new round of vandalism just as it got its trains running again.

The DA in KwaZulu-Natal has opened a criminal case against the provincial arts and culture department head for alleged corruption.

A 44-year-old man accused of murdering his partner and the mother of their two children abandoned his bail application on Thursday.

A confirmed case of rabies was found in a dog in Strand, Cape Town, earlier this week.

Several clients said they had paid for expensive holidays, but it never came to fruition.

Ukraine's ambassador to South Africa, Liubov Abravitova, was speaking at the Cape Town Press Club on Friday, where she delved into South Africa's stance on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Several government buildings in Tshwane were closed by their landlord this week due to unpaid rent, however, the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure says it stopped paying rent as it had overpaid in the past.

Deputy Minister of Defence Thabang Makwetla was one of several high-profile ANC politicians implicated at the Zondo Commission.

A man who raped a 5-year-old boy lost his appeal against his rape conviction and life sentence in the Mpumalanga High Court in Mbombela.