The Hawks are investigating the "kidnapping" of a 17-year-old Cape Town girl who was allegedly snatched from her family’s business this week.

Six Limpopo police officers have been arrested on charges of corruption after they allegedly assisted counterfeit cigarette syndicates to smuggle their products into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post.

One person was killed when a taxi driver, allegedly being pursued in connection with a crime, collided head-on with a truck on Umbilo Road in Durban on Saturday.

Free State police are searching for a group of men who waylaid a grade 11 pupil on his way from a local shop and stabbed him to death.

Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested and charged the country's vice president Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said on Friday, after months of investigation over his conduct.

Democratic Republic of the Congo's M23 rebel group on Friday said it wants to talk directly with the government after Congo's president and other African leaders signed a ceasefire deal aimed at stopping attacks by the militia.

The NSRI and the City of Cape Town are appealing to bathers, paddlers, surfers and sail boarders to be cautious in the Strand vicinity where a large whale carcass was located close to the shore on Friday.

Former US president Donald Trump dined this week at his Mar-a-Lago resort with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West who’s been criticised for recent anti-Semitic remarks, and a white supremacist who accompanied him.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Nomusa Dube-Ncube says it is impossible for law enforcement to combat the scourge of gender-based violence if the community does not play its part.

A man who allegedly impersonated a Gambling  Board official and robbed a businessman in Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, in September appeared in the Belfast magistrate’s court on Friday.

Siphesihle Khelembe, a 28-year-old man who pleaded guilty to murdering his friend Philani Mankangeni in Pietermariztzburg last month, was on Friday sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment.

The Ntuzuma regional court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old man to life imprisonment for the rape of his stepdaughter in April last year.

FNB says between midnight and 10am on Friday, spend by its card holders was up 30% in values and 25% in volumes, compared to the same period last year.

The Hawks are searching for Senzo Jeffrey Magwanyana, 21, in relation to a case of murder, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.

A KwaZulu-Natal police constable who was arrested earlier for the killing of an ANC councillor was linked by a bloodied appointment card to another victim.

The trial of Enyobeni tavern owner Vuyokazi Ndevu and her husband Siyakwamkela Ndevu has been set down for April next year.

Police have arrested a man suspected of being responsible for the Monaco tavern shooting in Mamelodi in July, in which a 33-year-old man was shot dead.

The SAPS and Ekurhuleni metro police fired rubber bullets at a group of workers picketing outside the Makro store in Germiston, east of Johannesburg, on Friday.

Eskom said on Friday afternoon that load-shedding will be maintained at stage 2 continuously until further notice.

Convicted killer Ntuthuko Shoba, who is serving a life sentence, will on Monday hear a decision on his leave to appeal application at the Johannesburg high court.

While many South Africans were fast asleep early on Black Friday, one big spender was wide awake and dropped a whopping R397,217 on two online transactions.

Charging drivers of polluting cars has dramatically improved air quality.

A group of children and young adults including Greta Thunberg have filed a class action lawsuit against the Swedish state for failing to take adequate measures to stop climate change.

Adidas AG has launched an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Kanye West after the German sporting goods maker last month ended its partnership with the rapper and fashion designer.

Numbers of Black Friday shoppers were down compared to previous years.

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One of the UK’s biggest pork producers has spent £4 million ($4.8 million) hiring butchers from the Philippines, after a staffing crisis threatened to hamper production.

Unhappy shoppers flocked to social media to complain that discounts offered were “not actually” discounts.

Alleged serial fraudster Wayne Kotze, owner of Pinetown Cars, a vehicle dealership west of Durban, faces an additional 34 charges of fraud amounting to more than R15m.