The Brandfort Magistrate's Court has sentenced former Free State MEC Butana Komphela to three years in prison for culpable homicide, wholly suspended for five years.

It took a KwaZulu-Natal pensioner a week to come forward to claim his R100 million Lotto jackpot.

Former ANC Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina says he is not bitter at the DA grabbing crucial Ekurhuleni council posts, including that of mayor.

Two Alexandra brothers have appeared in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court after allegedly submitting fraudulent payment notifications for the purchase of two luxury cars.

Western Cape Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC Anton Bredell has warned that more rainfall is expected in parts of the province until the weekend.

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The South African Human Rights Commission has raised concerns over messages on social media linking the potential contamination of noodles to foreign nationals or illegal immigrants.

The uptake of first-dose vaccinations has remained 20% lower than during the municipal elections at the beginning of November, the health department says.

An Airbus A340 departed from Cape Town and landed in Antarctica on 2 November in a world first for the aircraft.

A "sustained increase" in Covid-19 cases in Gauteng has been driven by a cluster outbreak among students at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria.

The ANC has been unceremoniously toppled in the City of Johannesburg as the desire to freeze it out of the metro eclipsed a failure by the DA, ActionSA, FF Plus, ACDP, UDM and COPE to form a coalition.

A shocked, but elated, Tania Campbell says her journey ahead as the mayor of Ekurhuleni will be challenging as her success will rely heavily on opposition political party support.

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.

Greenpop’s project aims to “bring Kirstenbosch” to schools.

ANC Limpopo provincial secretary Soviet Lekganyane says 2021 elected municipal councillors should desist from fighting over trivial issues and instead focus on the needs of communities.

Covid infections are on the rise in South Africa weeks ahead of an expected fourth wave in December, the country's national health laboratory service said.

The reconvened inaugural council meeting of the hung Modimolle-Mookgophong municipality in Limpopo ended in a stalemate on Monday, after the ANC and three opposition parties polled the same votes.

KwaZulu-Natal Disaster Management teams are on high alert following a weather warning issued by the SA Weather Services indicating severe thunder storms on Tuesday.

Mpumalanga’s Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton, which had been torn apart by ANC infighting, has been taken over by another party for the first time since democracy.

The lawyer representing murder accused Flavio Hlabangwane has launched an application to have an inquiry into his mental state following his second suicide attempt, since body parts were discovered in a freezer in his room.