Thousands of residents remain in shelters in the eThekwini metro, four months after the deadly floods, despite the government touting temporary housing units as a way to fast-track shelter for flood victims.

The Department of Home Affairs has dismissed its chief director of infrastructure management for information systems, Simphiwe Hlophe, after he was found guilty of gross negligence and dereliction of duty.

The cousin of a 33-year-old woman who suffocated her own grandmother, set her alight and buried her in her yard in December 2019, has described her as an 'evil woman'.

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Cosatu is planning to march to the offices of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa on Wednesday to protest against a 'public transport crisis' in the Western Cape.

Healthcare-associated infections occur when a person acquires an infection while they are admitted to a hospital. One of the most deadly is a bacterium that has developed resistance against three out of the four antibiotics we can use to treat it.

Experts say that while South Africa hasn't been able to diagnose its problems correctly, it lacks the necessary will to implement reforms.

The SA Social Security Agency has introduced new regulations to administer the government's R350 grant for the unemployed.

Little Tazne van Wyk fought for her life when she was raped and murdered, leaving DNA under her fingernails, leaving her attacker with no choice but to cut her hand off, the Western Cape High Court has heard.

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A 42-year-old Pretoria man accosted by three armed suspects on his smallholding over the weekend managed to defend himself after grabbing his firearm from a table and opening fire on them.

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola says the Cabinet is not considering another Chapter 9 institution against corruption.

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The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and several other civil society organisations will host a memorial rally for slain Gauteng health department whistleblower Babita Deokaran, one year after her death.

More than R5 billion in housing developments have been stopped over the last five years due to criminal activities and land invasions in the Western Cape.

The investigating officer in the Meghan Cremer murder trial, Sergeant Xolani Basso, took the stand in the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday after failing to appear the previous day.

On Tuesday, former Public Protector provincial investigations manager, Reginald Ndou, continued his testimony, which was cut short last week due to connectivity problems.

When Dedanizizwe Sobukwe was found unresponsive in the early hours of Sunday morning, his death ended years of suffering.

A 57-year-old man, who married a KwaZulu-Natal teenager from his church in 2019 and ended up torturing and repeatedly raping her, has been sentenced to life behind bars.

While Hawks boss Lieutenant-General Godfrey Lebeya kept silent on whether the July unrest was planned and coordinated, he did say authorities had only reached the halfway mark of those they were still planning to arrest.