The University of Cape Town council has been given until noon on Friday to allow News24 to attend a crucial meeting on the governance crisis at the university on Monday.

A man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, or a R60 000 fine, after he pleaded guilty to the possession of more than R3 million worth of abalone.

A 50-year-old Mpumalanga man has been handed a hefty sentence for a series of rapes and house break-ins between 2013 and 2018.

Three prisoners - two awaiting trial inmates and one sentenced rapist - have escaped from police custody in Limpopo.

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Businessman Jacques Lombard says zama zamas are rife in the Krugersdorp area and the levels of violence are extreme.

Zandile Christmas Mafe is expected to appear in the Western Cape High Court on Friday for allegeldy setting fire to Parliament, but will he pitch up in the dock?

Former Eskom acting chief executive Matshela Koko appeared in the Middleburg Magistrate's Court, along with seven other co-accused.

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The bubble is about to burst on a financial crisis that will soon collapse the city, ANC official warns - but the DA disputes this.

Gauteng police have launched an investigation into the murder of a 37-year-old man whose body was found in his yard.

Taxi bosses in the Western Cape were up in arms after the provincial government announced that the Blue Dot project would be cancelled.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) says it's confident "justice will be delivered" upon the person who killed a pregnant baboon in upmarket Constantia, Cape Town, in September.

The Hawks have arrested two men for alleged fuel theft from the national pipeline in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg.

The Investigating Directorate said the court ruled that the State had provided sufficient information to proceed with the case from 23 January to 3 March next year.

The South African Weather Service has issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms over Gauteng, south-western Limpopo, the western Highveld of Mpumalanga, as well as the western parts of North West, KZN and the Free State.

“I don’t even know this gentleman.” With these words, President Cyril Ramaphosa has, for the first time, denied knowing Hangwani Morgan Maumela, his nephew from a previous marriage, who scored close to R400 million from public hospitals in dodg...

When he pointed out to police where he had dumped Meghan Cremer, he had been sad, murder accused Jeremy Sias testified in the Western Cape High Court on Thursday.

The mayor of Mogale City, Tyrone Gray, believes that more bodies of suspected illegal miners could be trapped underground at a mineshaft in Krugersdorp, on the West Rand.

Beleaguered Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been hit with a costs order as her bid to go to the Supreme Court of Appeal to appeal a Western Cape High Court ruling which prevented her from returning to her office failed.