The Mpumalanga education department has launched a campaign to encourage eligible pupils to have themselves vaccinated against Covid-19.

Alleged unrest instigator Bonginkosi Khanyile has been released on R5 000 bail. Khanyile is accused of inciting public violence on social media during civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July in which more than 350 people died.

The South African Human Rights Commission and George municipality are investigating allegations that Garden Route DA municipality councillor Iona Kritzinger used the k-word during a telephonic conversation with a senior law enforcement officer.

Police have appealed for help in identifying two bodies found in Cape Town. The bodies of the two men were found during the search of a river while police were looking for four missing young men.

Wines made by Boschendal and Bellingham have made their way to the United States, thanks to a new partnership with Cape Classic importers.

A man accused of tax fraud totalling more than R1 million has appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Johannesburg.

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Limpopo police have arrested two people believed to have been responsible for a spate of robberies along roads in the Waterberg area.

The DA in the City of Joburg opened a case against the member of the mayoral committee for environment and infrastructure services, Mpho Moerane, with regard to the ongoing water cuts and shortages in parts of the city's southern suburbs.

Professor Salim Abdool Karim was speaking during a media briefing to announce the premiere date of a Covid-19 documentary filmed at a Pretoria Hospital.

A former National Health Laboratory Services CEO accused of tender corruption has been granted R20 000 bail.

South Africa has recorded 4 118 new confirmed Covid-19 cases and 198 deaths.

The man is expected to appear in the Germiston Magistrate's Court on Tuesday on charges of fraud, illegal possession of bank cards and contravening the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act of 2002.

The IEC is working on truncated timelines to ensure that the local government elections go ahead following its failed Constitutional Court application.

While recent research found that over 71% of South Africans are willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, government has indicated its concern with increasing reports of vaccine hesitancy.

A report into initiation schools has found, that the current policy and legislative framework that governs or regulates the practice of traditional initiation is fragmented.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla says the vaccination programme is progressing steadily throughout the country. As of Sunday night, 10 million people had been vaccinated.

Western Cape police are in the process of identifying four people killed in a bloodbath in Wellington over the weekend.

A new heart-wrenching documentary taking viewers inside a Covid-19 hospital in Pretoria during the peak of the pandemic in South Africa is set to premiere next month.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the ANC welcomed the decision by Correctional Services Commissioner Arthur Fraser to release former president Jacob Zuma on medical parole.