The Department of Correctional Services has confirmed that former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli has been placed on parole.

A police task team has been put together to probe the murder of a Limpopo college lecturer in an alleged mob attack in the Lebowakgomo policing area.

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The South African Police Union has called on the government and the South African Police Service to declare the killing of officers treason.

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A man and his toddler drowned in a Free State river after he threw the child into the water and then jumped in himself.

The ANC NEC has heard wide-ranging and spirited calls for intervention in response to the Eskom crisis, which ranged from the declaration of a state of emergency to moving Eskom from the Department of Public Enterprises to the Department of Energy.

A number of social housing projects that would yield a total of 1 526 units, and help address the housing backlog in the province, are in the pipeline for the Western Cape.

Both the State and the defence are set to appeal the sentences which the Polokwane High Court in Limpopo handed to four teenagers who brutally murdered aspiring musician Thoriso Themane almost three years ago.

A man, who claimed load shedding led him on a stabbing spree which killed two family friends, has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in jail.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Wednesday attend the mass funeral service of the 21 young people who died in the Enyobeni tavern in East London, in the Eastern Cape.

The Oppenheimer family stands to lose part of their 65 000 hectare farm in Zimbabwe because, according to the country's laws, mining rights take precedence ahead of any other activity on portioned land.

Twelve years after it was ordered to by a court, the Eastern Cape Department of Education has submitted an implementation plan to build temporary school premises by August 2023 and a permanent one by 2027 for the Grahamstown Amasango Career School.

Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Sello said the officers were conducting patrols on 30 June when they stopped a suspicious-looking vehicle.

The four men accused of killing Mthokozisi Ntumba will have to wait until Tuesday morning to find out if they will still face charges of murder and attempted murder.

A large crowd gathered outside the Camperdown Magistrate's Court on Monday where a KwaZulu-Natal cop stands accused of murdering his wife.

Wayward Nkomazi Local Municipality mayor Johan Mkhatshwa has appointed a municipal manager despite Mpumalanga Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Mandla Ndlovu having written to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to withdra...

The State of the South African Cities Report is published every five years to gauge development in nine of the country's biggest municipalities.

Cope has opened a case of corruption and money laundering against Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo.

Durban residents will experience load shedding in coming weeks, this after eThekwini Metro was excluded from blackouts due to infrastructure damage following the deadly April flooding.