Two security guards have been injured in a cash-in-transit heist in Pretoria, according to Gauteng paramedics.

Five vehicles - two Golden Arrow buses, a council truck and light duty vehicle, as well as an Eskom vehicle - were set alight during protest action in Nyanga on Friday morning.

Police have arrested an alleged kidnapping mastermind in Lenasia while rescuing a local businessman who had been abducted days earlier.

Several parts of Pretoria have been left without electricity, as City of Tshwane staff embark on an "illegal" strike. At least four regions have been affected during three days of outages.

Advocates for Transformation has informed its members that Kameshni Pillay SC and Siphokazi Poswa-Lerotholi SC will alternatively represent it at the JSC after advocate Dali Mpofu's term ended.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has written to embattled Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, asking her to provide reasons why he should not suspend her.

The Absa Cape Epic’s route is one of life’s ever-changing constants. No two editions, in the race’s 19-year history, have been the same and that tradition holds true for the 2022 edition of the Untamed African MTB Race.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says South Africa has recorded 1 682 new Covid-19 infections, which represents a 5.8% positivity rate. Three new Covid-19 deaths have also been recorded.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday visited Project Panda - the working title for Netflix's live-action anime series, One Piece, which is currently shooting on location at the Cape Town Film Studios.

The 15-year-old relative arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brackenfell couple related to local singer Craig Lucas was referred to Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital this week.

As Police Minister Bheki Cele embarked on a whirlwind tour of areas in Cape Town beset by violence, a man was shot in broad daylight just 300 metres away from where he was addressing angry residents in Manenberg.

Deputy Public Protector advocate Kholeka Gcaleka will visit Komani in the Eastern Cape on Friday to inspect a shoddily built R15 million stadium in Lesseyton, which caused a national uproar in 2021.

The 36-year-old man from Clocolan was sentenced in the Free State High Court in Ladybrand after he was found guilty of raping his 14-year-old daughter.

The Rural Flying Squad arrested a 27-year-old woman on the N9 between George and Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape after drugs worth R120 000 were found hidden in instant porridge boxes.

Eight men were each handed 120 years' imprisonment for cash-in-transit related crimes in KwaZulu-Natal, the Hawks said on Thursday.

Mpumalanga police have arrested 34 Malawian nationals for allegedly being in the country illegally during a stop-and-search operation in eLukwatini.

President Cyril Ramaphosa answered questions in the National Assembly on South Africa's response to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, the economy and crime.

The Commission for Gender Equality has joined the call to have a regulatory body that oversees the advertising industry and would be compulsory to join.

South African national Karl Herbst, 27 and two Zimbabweans Nkosiyabo Mbambo, 29, and Nomathemba Ncube, 40, were arrested in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday for allegedly smuggling vehicles worth R2 million from South Africa.