More than 40 people were left homeless when the fire broke out in Kanana informal settlement, Gugulethu, on Wednesday 26 October.

Many South Africans were hit hard by the Covid 19 pandemic with some losing their jobs and subsequent lockdown regulations which banished them into their houses.

More than 400 people are in desperate need of aid after being displaced by a blaze that ripped through the Masiphumelele informal settlement in the early hours of Monday morning.

A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life behind bars for murdering his girlfriend, Angelique Fourie, 27, during a heated argument.

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Though South Africa has in some respects done well in the provision of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescent girls and young women, significant gaps remain.

The Special Investigating Unit has a year to track down dodgy lawyers and patients who file fake medical negligence claims. Plus, a new draft bill proposes that the state pay less for negligence.

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After 10 days of 'intense' peace talks, a cessation of hostilities agreement was signed on Wednesday between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Force to end the war in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray.

Free State police have launched a manhunt for suspects traveling in three vehicles who allegedly abducted two traffic officials and injured an officer during a shootout.

A 28-year-old man who raped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl was sentenced to life imprisonment and three years by the Kwaggafontein Regional Court.

Zuzumuzi Manqonyana, 48, and Peter Selenga, 49, were each granted R10 000 bail in the Klerksdorp Magistrate's Court this week.

Residents in Kwa-Guqa, Hlalanikahle and Empumelelweni are now entering their second week of blackouts, which began on 19 October.

South Africa is the world's 12th biggest source of greenhouse gases and environmentalists blame the country for its reliance on fossil fuels.

Santaco's Western Cape chairperson, Mandla Hermanus, said they were informed that the Blue Dot taxi project would cease operations at the end of November due to a lack of funding.

A Cape Town cat nearly lost one of its nine lives on Tuesday when it got stuck up a telephone pole, but Epping Fire and Rescue service saved the day.

A 45-year-old Mpumalanga man was sentenced to 25 years for murdering a Bethal couple in March 2020.

A stretch of the Snake Valley Road in Centurion was closed following the emergence of a sinkhole.

A couple found guilty of manufacturing and dealing drugs won't spend one day in prison after a magistrate handed them suspended sentences.

Murder accused Jeremy Sias said he had never set foot in Meghan Cremer’s cottage at the Vaderlansdche Rietvlei Farm.