Five people were shot dead in two separate incidents in Tembelihle informal settlement, in Lenasia on Saturday night.

ANC presidential hopeful and former health minister Zweli Mkhize has bemoaned the treatment of former President Jacob Zuma and has dismissed the notion of the ‘nine wasted years’ under the former leader.

Yasmin 'Jessie' Duarte, the deputy secretary general of the ANC, has died, the party announced on Sunday.

South Africans' annoyance at power cuts has given way to worry, with business owners complaining that the prolonged energy crisis for which no end is in sight is eating into profits and hobbling economic activity.

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The South African Communist Party’s Blade Nzimande was voted in as chairperson and replaced by Solly Mapaila as general secretary at the SACP’s 15th elective congress on Saturday.

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The Cape of Good Hope SPCA responded to a frantic call at the Hout Bay harbour earlier this week after diesel oil spills filled parts of the harbour, affecting more than 30 Cape fur seals.

Free State police experts arrested the suspects hardly 24 hours after a woman, her son and her five employees were murdered at Lismore farm, Kestell.

Three South Africans and two Batswana nationals were arrested by Botswana Police Services on Friday in a foiled armed robbery of a cash-in-transit vehicle in Gaborone.

In her ambition to lead the ANC Youth League, Nonceba Mhlauli wants to dispel any notion that the league was run better under its former leader Julius Malema.

National police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says the deadly shooting sprees which have been making headlines are not acts of organised crime.

Friends of a Vaal woman who had been reported missing said people who knew her commented on Facebook that they wished she was found headless and without her private parts.

Vrededorp residents say it is common for firefighters to respond to fires late, even though the fire station is just five minutes away.

Ward 46's councillor, Ntobeko Nqakula, conceded that Chris Hani was one of the worst areas hit by the Nelson Mandela Bay water crisis.

Some members of the State Security Agency were considered enemies of the South African Revenue Service investigative units, former SARS executive Johann van Loggerenberg testified on Friday in Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's impeachment hearing...

A group of protesters has called for bail to be revoked for the man accused of the rape of a 10-year-old from Elsies River.

An abusive former boyfriend, who stabbed a Soweto woman multiple times until she lost an eye, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Police in the Free State have deployed maximum resources following a deadly shooting that left seven people dead at Lismor Farm in the Kestell district.

The City of Cape Town says it has opened a criminal case against people who have been living in the Chris Hani Community Hall in Mfuleni since 14 June, GroundUp reports.