Energy giant Shell's announcement that it will begin blasting the seafloor on the unspoilt Wild Coast in search of gas and oil deposits has environmentalists, businesses and Eastern Cape residents up in arms.

KwaZulu-Natal police say they have arrested an employee at a medical depot over the theft of medication from the Riverhorse Valley depot.

Wits and UWC have passed Covid-19 vaccination mandates, requiring all members of the two university communities to be vaccinated in order to access facilities.

South African scientists are leading a global response to understand key questions around the transmissibility and potential for immune escape of a newly discovered variant, named B.1.1.529.

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The estranged husband of Vicki Terblanche told the Magistrate's Court this afternoon by means of an affidavit, that she "used various drugs" and "lots of over the counter medication."

The closure of the B97 taxi route between Paarl and Bellville remains closed as violence related to taxi industry disputes continue, in spite of ongoing talks.

After a harrowing childhood characterised by bullying for being gay, a Durban nurse has documented the psychological trauma and abuse he endured growing up "different".

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.

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The Department of Health has raised concerns South Africa is bearing the brunt of publicly announcing the new Covid-19 variant, as other countries placed it on the red list.

DA leader John Steenhuisen said the party wanted to form stable coalition governments, with talks ongoing in the big metros of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.

A suspect linked to the murder of a police officer, a cash-in-transit heist, an armed robbery, a business robbery in Acornhoek and another murder in Barberton has been arrested in Mpumalanga.

The South African government needs to do more to combat rhino poaching and other environmental crimes - this was the call made by the MEC of local economic development and finance in the Eastern Cape Mlungisi Mvoko.

The case against a man accused of murdering his 29-year-old girlfriend before dismembering and burying her in a shallow grave in the North West has been postponed to 2022.

The Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha found Luthando Siyoni guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

The refugees and asylum seekers still living in tents erected during the lockdown in Cape Town are upset by news that there are plans afoot to evict them.

A South African woman is devastated that her 25-year-old daughter will undergo major surgery alone in the UK as she will not be able to join her as flights to the county have been temporarily banned.

Inmates at the various Pollsmoor prisons received a rude awakening on Friday morning when prison officials conducted several raids at dawn.

A hitman who assassinated taxi owners in Limpopo has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of killing two others in 2018, although he claimed to have killed several more.