A City of Cape Town official has been killed after vandalised cables exploded while he was attending to an outage in Gugulethu.

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A picture of the gun, captioned "My killing machine", allegedly used to kill Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa, was among the images found on the cellphone of one of the five men charged with his murder.

The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department has arrested eight men for being in possession of stolen Telkom copper cables worth about R1 million.

Search and rescue teams combed streams to look for missing persons believed to be swept away by the heavy floods on 11 April.

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A man has been arrested in connection with the rape and assault of a 15-year-old girl in eMaxesibeni on Good Friday, during which the her eyes were gouged out.

The Eastern Cape education department's spokesperson, Vuyiseka Mboxela, said the theft had crippled the rolling out of ICT to transform learning and teaching.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday declared a national state of disaster in response to the catastrophic flooding in KwaZulu-Natal.

The SA Local Government Bargaining Council on Friday ruled that the council had no jurisdiction to adjudicate this unfair dismissal claim.

When Ndoni Mcunu's fiancé, Philani Mthembu, arrived at her memorial service, he was wearing the suit he was supposed to be married in.

The lawyer representing four of the five men charged with the murder of Senzo Meyiwa told the court the presence of Kelly Khumalo's watching brief makes him uncomfortable.

GOOD and the DA are at loggerheads after the Theewaterskloof municipality said R35 million in unused grants would be returned to the national government.

Ndoni Mcunu has been lauded by her peers as a trailblazer and someone who paved the way for young, black women to follow a career in the field of science.

Judge Connie Prinsloo ruled that the SA Municipal Workers Union had met the requirements to interdict the City of Johannesburg.

In the 12-second clip, schoolgirls cackled and cheered, while pupils shoved each other and threw punches. Some fell to the floor, crashing into desks.

The National Prosecuting Authority says it knows nothing about withdrawal statements from witnesses who had earlier implicated former Mpumalanga MEC Mandla Msibi in a murder.

The seven accused in the murder of Zimbabwean national Elvis Nyathi are expected to apply for bail in the Randburg Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg on Monday.

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has gone to court to apply for a six-week extension of the State Capture Inquiry.

Thirty-six pupils at a Gauteng high school have been suspended for allegedly smoking dagga on school premises.