Police have arrested three men in Cape Town in connection with the discovery of R400 million compressed cocaine in Pretoria three weeks ago.

A man has been jailed for 18 years for the murder of his stepson and the severe neglect of the child's brother, and their mother has been jailed for five years for neglect.

The District Six Working Committee has welcomed the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform's announcement that they had set a date for the return of District Six claimants.

The City of Cape Town urged residents of allegedly illegally occupied land in flood prone areas to take measures to prevent flooding.

A private international school in Cape Town is at the centre of the latest allegations of racism. Parents and pupils protested outside the Deutsche Schule Kapstadt.

A Durban boy who works with the UN and used his ninth birthday to raise funds for endangered birds in Umgeni River Bird Park, is at it again for his 10th birthday - this time he wants to help a Cape Town facility and African Grey birds.

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After a week of riots which have caused the closure of the N2 between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, the national road has been cleaned up and reopened – although a heavy police presence will remain.

A 50-year-old Mozambican man has been sentenced to an effective 23 years imprisonment for poaching-related offences.

South Africa's Covid-19 vaccination programme is under way. Here's what you need to know about who is eligible and how it works.

A viral video on social media of a Johannesburg woman fighting off a man who grabbed her cellphone has caused a stir.

The EFF has invited parties and civil society groups to join them in a protest against Saprha and government in order to demand access to Russian and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines.

The national Department of Health has maintained it has no record of the delivery of decuplets in Gauteng and that the alleged "cover-up" by health authorities was more likely a "journalistic error".

Angry party-goers attacked two police officers after trying to break up a street bash in Makhanda on Monday.

The committee's chairperson, Mathole Motshekga, warned that, if they fail to find a solution to the land question in South Africa, it could lead to a situation akin to that of Zimbabwe.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, political leaders and parties have paid tribute to Zambia’s founding president Kenneth Kaunda.

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi visited the Buyani Primary School on Friday after reports that the principal, Lazarous Baloyi, 53, was shot and killed.

The Makhanda shutdown has been suspended the municipality obtained an interim court order preventing the protesters from causing further disturbances in the university town.

Livingstone High School in Claremont, Cape Town has requested police to do visible patrols during dismissal times, after a pupil was attacked by a group of men in a car while leaving the school.

The secretary-general of the Black Lawyers Association says the decision to suspend the organisation's president Mashudu Kutama, was based on allegations that were not only serious, but "highly disturbing".