The cost of food and fuel, and power cuts, are among the things keeping the country’s taxpayer base tossing and turning at night.

South Africans are forking out more than R500 more each month for basic food items compared with a year ago.

Chinese authorities have begun inquiries into some of the people who gathered at weekend protests against Covid-19 curbs, three people who were at the Beijing demonstrations told Reuters, as police remained out in numbers on the city's streets.

South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries will receive their last old age and disability grant payments for the year this week.

Elon Musk accused Apple Inc of threatening to block Twitter Inc from its app store without saying why in a series of tweets on Monday that also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on the social media platform.

Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, began erupting on Sunday for the first time since 1984, ending its longest quiet period in recorded history.

Three pit bulls believed to have been responsible for the gruesome and deadly attack on a 37-year-old woman on Sunday in Port Alfred were brought to the SPCA by their owner.

Limpopo police are searching for an unknown suspect who fired shots at a farmer and his wife while they were sleeping, wounding the wife.

European policing agency Europol says it helped co-ordinate the takedown of a cartel managed from the United Arab Emirates and believed to control up to a third of Europe's cocaine trade.

DA in eThekwini has challenged the municipality mayor Mxolisi Kaunda to take a dip in the water at the sewage-polluted Umhlanga main beach after saying beaches would be open on December 1.

Police minister Bheki Cele will appoint a team of detectives to investigate organised crime in Harding as he targets hitmen and their masters.

KwaZulu-Natal social development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza has called on the community to play their part in ending gender-based violence and femicide.

West African country’s MPC raises rate to 27% from 24.5%, while inflation is forecast to peak in the first quarter of 2023

Six men who killed a Fidelity Security Services guard Wonderboy Khuzwayo execution-style during a botched cash in transit heist in Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal, three years ago were each sentenced to life and 38 years imprisonment.

Already there is tension around renewed calls by Gwede Mantashe for fracking proposals in the Karoo

The SAPS museum in Pretoria is seemingly allowed to rot after being shut earlier this year.

More South Africans drown at inland sites than in the ocean, a new study has found. These inland sites include swimming pools, canals, old mine dumps, and even water tubs.

Six Limpopo police officers who allegedly assisted counterfeit cigarette syndicates to smuggle their products into South Africa through the Beitbridge border post, appeared in the Musina magistrate’s court on Monday on charges of corruption.

The family of slain Tshegofatso Pule seek closure from the convicted murderer by visiting the scene of the murder so they can "fetch her spirit".

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Monday announced he has granted Chris Hani's murderer Janusz Waluś permanent residence for him to serve his parole and conditions imposed by the minister of correctional services.

Ma-Afrika Hotels, one of the many hospitality groups affected by Covid-19-related government restrictions, has launched an application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against an eviction order brought by its landlord Venezia Trust.

Five years of price tracking shows beer price increase is the lowest of all alcoholic beverages

Suspended public protector wants to oust evidence leaders says advocate Dali Mpofu as he rages against 'unfair' time limit

A new expansion project to the tune of R825m at the South African Breweries plant in Durban is set to create thousands of jobs and give a leg up to local contractors.

A sharp increase in the price of diesel coupled with a dip in passenger numbers will see  MyCiTi airport bus services suspended from Thursday in Cape Town.

IT executive Steven Preston, 37, was knocked over while cycling in June 2020. The driver of the BMW involved in the accident, Ishe Davani, was convicted of culpable homicide and driving under the influence of alcohol on Monday at the Randburg magistr...

Julian Knight says he went into law ‘never to make money but to try to make a difference in other people’s lives’.

The ANC in Gauteng has expressed outrage at the vandalism of the Chris Hani monument in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.

The case against a 28-year-old Zimbabwean truck driver, who was arrested last Tuesday at the Camden power station in Mpumalanga on charges of fraud and theft of Eskom’s coal, has been withdrawn.

A Seventh-day Adventist Church congregant who saw a robbery at her church at the weekend says she is shocked that the gunmen could be so brazen to target a place of worship.