President Cyril Ramaphosa has in his weekly letter to the nation urged South Africans to vote in next week's municipal elections.

The scourge of unemployment among the youth could affect political parties at the polls when South Africans gear up to cast their votes on 1 November.

AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo has thanked EFF leader Julius Malema for saying he will buy him a brand new car.

Four people have been killed on the R40 in Mpumalanga after the car they were travelling in collided with a truck.

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Contactless biometric systems have become more important amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, and new software which recognises photographs of fingerprints has a South African market.

KwaZulu-Natal police have appealed to the public to help find Sergeant Simphiwe Phumlani Lucas Sibiya, who went missing just days before his wedding day.

DA leader John Steenhuisen says South Africa is starting to reach a new low by policing people's facial expressions.

A security guard and a civilian have been shot and injured during a jewellery store robbery at Menlyn Park shopping centre in Pretoria.

This week on the Ballot Box, News24's political editor Qaanitah Hunter talks to the executive chairman of the Institute of Election Management Services in Africa, Terry Tselane.

Gqeberha police have arrested a boyfriend and his friend after the body of the missing Vicky Terblanche was discovered in a shallow grave in Greenbushes.

DA leader John Steenhuisen says ANC-ruled municipalities have closed the gates on people's lives and livelihoods.

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.

At least 175 599 matrics in Gauteng will write this year's final examinations.

Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has agreed to participate in a mediation process with lobby group AfriForum outside of court proceedings relating to assassination claims he made last year.

Matt Beers and Jordan Sarrou kept it together to take a memorable win at the world’s most challenging mountain bike stage race.

Seven people have been killed and five injured following a shooting in Kagiso, the West Rand.

A conservation activist has become the first person to complete a dangerous swim to and from Dyer Island, in waters that have become renowned for their shark activity.

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the country recorded 2 919 332 laboratory confirmed Covid-19 cases as of Saturday.

More than 35 000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 received vaccines over three days.