Four people are in a critical condition after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed at Spaghetti Junction on Durban's N2 in the early hours of Sunday.

US President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 again on Saturday in what the White House doctor described as a "rebound" case seen in a small percentage of patients who take the antiviral drug Paxlovid.

Two children were severely injured after their father crashed his Ferrari into shop fronts in central Durban on Saturday.

Seven people died in an apparent hit when gunmen opened fire at a tuck shop in Marianhill, west of Durban, on Saturday

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A box of adult toys caused a road accident in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.

The Independent Policing Union of SA and National Union of Mineworkers have condemned the gang rape and robbery of eight women during a music video shoot in Krugersdorp.

Police in the North West believe "consciousness is under siege" and have come up with a spiritual arm to fight what they deem to be "spiritual warfare".

A motorist fleeing from police in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal, jumped into the sea on Friday night and clung onto rocks to evade arrest.

Tshwane will on Sunday launch an amnesty programme for customers who have tampered with their water and electricity connections to record incorrect or lower consumption.

A missing person case turned into one of murder after a UK family who reported Harkandi Nathvani missing, notified police that transactions were still being made with his card.

A vigilant Cape Town nurse helped police nab alleged cash-in-transit robbers after a “suspicious” patient was admitted to a hospital with a gun wound.

A man was rescued from his vehicle after it plunged into the Jukskei river following a collision on the N14 in Diepsloot on Friday.

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Former Eskom employee, Liesel Maria Wolmarans has been arrested for electricity billing fraud amounting to R11m.

Police on Friday said two suspects had been shot dead and 65 others arrested during a police operation to find a group of men who gang-raped eight women at a music video shoot in Krugersdorp.

Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

A Brazilian firm selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) it says are linked to physical land in the country's Amazon rainforest has been asked by Brazilian prosecutors to prove its ownership of the land, which is in territory claimed by indigenous people.

Regional forces in southeast Ethiopia killed more than 150 al Shabaab militiamen during fierce border clashes on Friday, the state news agency and a regional commander said, in the third round of fighting in nine days.

Central banks and markets may have dropped the narrative that inflation is "transitory," but there is a strong chance that current spikes in prices are temporary and will soon begin to trend downward, economists and former central bank policymakers t...

Spain reported on Friday its first monkeypox-related death, the Spanish Health Ministry said, in what is Europe's first known death and the second outside of Africa in the current outbreak.

The death toll in eastern Kentucky rose to 16 on Friday as floodwaters swept through homes, washed out roads and pushed waterways over their banks, Governor Andy Beshear said, warning that more fatalities were expected.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Collins Chabane local municipality mayor and ANC deputy secretary in the Vhembe region Moses Maluleke.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of eight women in Krugersdorp's West Village, said the office of police minister Bheki Cele on Friday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday welcomed the life sentence handed to Tshegofatso Pule's killer, Ntuthuko Shoba, adding that it was 'befitting, appropriate and justice for the two innocent lives he took so cruelly'.

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Twelve months later South Africans are still trying to make sense of the riots and pick up the pieces.

KwaZulu-Natal children were traumatised and went hungry when violence spread through the province last July, says Childline KZN acting director Adeshini Naicker.

A person collecting firewood on Thursday evening made the gruesome discovery of human skeletal remains near a farm in Delmas, Mpumalanga.

About 5% of applicants for the special grant hold tertiary qualifications.