A Free State man has been handed an effective 30-year sentence for raping a 61-year-old woman and her 10-year-old granddaughter.

South Africa has recorded 1 560 new Covid-19 infections, which represents a 6.2% positivity rate.

Human Settlements Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has established a war room to fast-track housing delivery in the country.

The DA is seeing red after National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula shot down its request for a secret ballot during the motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Cabinet.

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On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the further easing of Covid-19 regulations. But, the National State of Disaster was extended yet again, drawing criticism from some quarters.

KwaZulu-Natal registered 18 550 births for children aged 10 to 17 during the 2019-'20 financial year, says Stats SA. More than 83 000 children gave birth countrywide during the same period.

Families of the six people who died in a bus accident on the R573 Moloto Road last year have accused the Public Utility Transport Corporation (Putco) of making their lives difficult by allegedly not paying them their R5 000 monthly incomes on time.

A Pakistani national and 29 other people arrested after a raid at the Department of Home Affairs' offices in Krugersdorp face various charges.

National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has shot down a request by the DA for a secret ballot procedure during the motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Cabinet.

Ten men have been arrested for allegedly tampering with essential infrastructure in Klipfontein Farm, the Free State.

Xenophobic tensions have flared up in the Overberg town of Bredasdorp where local residents have been targeting foreign nationals.

The former head of supply chain for the police, who is accused of fraud and plotting to kill people investigating him, has been denied bail.

Patriotic Alliance leader Kenny Kunene has raised fears, without substantiation, that Operation Dudula leader Nhlanhla "Lux" Dlamini could be killed in police holding cells.

The police ministry remains resolute in refusing to fund the defence of former apartheid security branch cop Christian Rorich, insisting that his part in the 1982 assassination of the "Cosas Four" does not fall within the normal duties of a police of...

The Free State High Court has granted an order for the Asset Forfeiture Unit to freeze more than R18 million that was fraudulently paid into South African bank accounts by Lesotho government officials.

The family of 9-year-old Tebogo Sefolo are still in deep pain and disbelief after he was shot dead on his way back to home from school in Vereeniging.

The Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital was gutted by a fire in April 2021 and it is expected to be fully operational at the end of 2023.

Operation Dudula leader Nhlanhla Lux has called for calm after his incarceration at the Johannesburg Central police station.

Sixty-three-year-old Benjamin Dube, a superintendent at the electricity depot in Soshanguve, has become the latest victim in attacks on City of Tshwane employees after being allegedly held hostage and assaulted by community members while attending to...