Herman Mashaba says the #CutTheFat campaign calls on all South Africans to draw a line in the sand and say "this far and no further" to excessive government spending.

Since the start of the lockdown last year, 409 teachers, 55 non-teaching staff and 10 pupils have lost their lives to Covid-19.

Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has become the first Public Protector to appear in court on criminal charges.

About 50 shack dwellers from Area 11 in Gunguluza, Uitenhage, stormed a construction site and disrupted the installation of JoJo tanks and an electricity survey project.

A man who brandished a toy gun and tried to rob a motorist stuck in traffic in Johannesburg, has been shot dead.

A 32-year-old man was arrested at his Vosloorus home for the 11 January murder of his girlfriend, who is the mother of his 2-year-old son.

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Msunduzi municipality security guards used sjamboks to disperse a group of amaphara after chaos erupted in the queue.

Nomabandla Manjezi has been convicted of recruiting young women and paying them between R200 and R300 each to marry Bangladeshi nationals.

Two men were injured, one seriously, after the driver lost control of their truck and collided with a wall northwest of Krugersdorp.

South Africa is edging toward 40 000 confirmed Covid-19-related deaths as 566 new deaths were recorded by Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 38 854.

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Calvin Kwinana, who was employed by the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation as an accountant, misappropriated funds to the tune of R268 000.

The Public Protector, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, is expected to make her first appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on Thursday. She is facing three counts of perjury.

Police have arrested four suspects following the shooting of a SAPS Special Task Force member and the hijacking of a state vehicle.

The video of a man rescuing a dog trapped on an outcrop of rocks on a flooded causeway below Bell Park Dam in the Drakensberg's Champagne Valley, in KwaZulu-Natal, has drawn widespread admiration.

Eastern Cape police are seeking for public assistance in locating two prisoners that escaped from Bisho High court and Ngqeleni Magistrate's court.

South Africa has been careful to make "quick judgements" in the aftermath of Ugandan elections, which the opposition says was rigged.

The fiancée of a man initially thought to have committed suicide has appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a charge of murder.

Eastern Cape policewoman Warrant Officer Noxolo Nancy Mesilane, 41, was discovered hanging from a roof with both hands tied at the back, police announced on Wednesday.