Former Mpumalanga crèche owner Hermanus "Manie" Senekal, 81, who is already serving a 15-year sentence for raping a child, has been handed an effective 20-year jail sentence this week after admitting that he raped at least one other girl.

What was supposed to be a fun break in the Western Cape turned into a nightmare for a North West woman after her pelvis was broken during a hit-and-run accident.

The unpopular and divisive programme provoked numerous protests and severe criticism from animal activists.

Zayaan Matthews had her legs amputated on Sunday after an alleged drunk driver crashed his car into her as she was about to go and play outside the family home in Duinefontein, Manenberg.

Nine suspects are wanted by the Hawks after allegedly defrauding more than 5 000 individuals out of millions of rand by running a fake company that had asked people to invest in it.

The Free State High Court has ruled that Premier Sisi Ntombela is obligated to place the embattled Mafube local municipality under compulsory administration following an application by AfriForum and the Mafube Business Forum in January.

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The Legal Practice Council believes that the manner in which advocate Malesela Teffo was arrested can be interpreted as intimation and opens the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial to speculation.

The DA has taken advantage of the latest findings contained in the fourth part of the State Capture Inquiry's report, saying it reveals the ANC is a "criminal syndicate" and not fit to govern.

One of the people arrested in connection with the murder of a 78-year-old man whose body was found buried in his garden, has told the Randburg Magistrate's Court that his three co-accused had nothing to do with the crime.

The State Capture Commission characterised a housing scheme worth R1 billion in the Free State when Ace Magashule was premier and Mosebenzi Zwane housing MEC, as a "dismal failure" and recommended Zwane be investigated for fraud.

Months after he was dramatically arrested for contravening Covid-19 regulations, military veteran Carl Niehaus has been told to leave a three-day Umkhonto we Sizwe Veterans Association conference underway in East London, after testing positive for Co...

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Controversial businessman Edwin Sodi kept no record of the loans and donations to high-ranking ANC politicians.

Advocate Malesela Teffo, representing four of the men accused of murdering Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa, has been released on R10 000 bail.

The owner of a Free State college has been arrested after he allegedly issued a fake certificate to a senior official of the Nketoana Local Municipality.

There may be new cannabis laws in the offing, but the Hawks are still swooping on people growing large quantities of the plant.

Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has recommended criminal prosecution of former Minister Mosebenzi Zwane, Rajesh Gupta, former director of technology group EOH, Jehan Mackay, and a host of former Eskom executives for their role in the attempted capture of...

The man dubbed the South African Tinder swindler didn't look like the millionaire he claimed to be when he appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court.

Gauteng police say the kitchen and storeroom of the Moroka police station in Soweto have been damaged in a blaze.