A government agency's accounts manager is embroiled in disciplinary action over alleged fraud involving R4.5m.

SANParks CEO Fundisile Mketeni and two senior officials are receiving full pay while investigations into assault and sexual harassment allegations are conducted.

Two officers were responding to a domestic violence report near Bergville on Friday afternoon when they were attacked. Now the suspect faces an attempted murder charge.

A distressed Cape Town community is appealing to warring gangs for a ceasefire after three children were shot and injured on their way to school on Friday.

A Dutch businessman accused of duping a bank to give him a R6.8m loan using a four-star guest house as security has failed to convince the high court to allow him to attend his daughter's birthday party in the Netherlands.

The N3 highway between Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal was fully reopened early on Saturday morning after a truck protest that severely disrupted traffic, management of the N3 Toll Concession said.

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Top SA scientists slam the global travel bans, saying they were not only ineffective but did significantly more harm than good.

The Fort Calata Foundation has expressed disappointment with the NPA for missing the deadline to provide the families of the Cradock Four victims with an update on their case.

Management of the N3 Toll Concession said on Friday evening that traffic congestion due to a protest on the highway between Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal will take some time to clear.

The annual practice of some schools illegally withholding pupils’ end-of-the-year report cards because of outstanding fees or pupils' failure to return textbooks has reared its ugly head once again.

The NICD said on Friday that there were 16,055 new cases recorded in the past day, taking the total number of confirmed infections to 3,004,203 since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic

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The SA Weather Service has warned of possible flooding across Gauteng and other parts of the country at the weekend.

Stranded in foreign airports when their flights home were suddenly cancelled, scores of South Africans were forced to buy expensive tickets on other airlines — only to discover that their travel insurance policies don’t cover such a situation.

Police minister Bheki Cele said he invited police commissioner Khehla Sitole to join him in KwaZulu-Natal before former president Jacob Zuma handed himself over to police.

The shortlisting process of who should fill magistrate posts in the Free State in 2019 was "rigid, inflexible and quota-driven".

Western Cape police confiscated R5m worth of Mandrax tablets on board a long-distance bus on Friday morning and arrested one suspect.

Lottery operator Ithuba's CEO Charmaine Mabuza has been named one of the 10 most influential women in the global gaming industry, according to iGaming Business.

The state has objected to the relaxation of bail conditions for the co-accused of a prominent advocate charged with unlawful possession of child pornography.

AfriForum Youth has found no eloquence in Stellenbosch University’s new language policy.

NPA says alleged thief was shot in the back while running away

The Beer Association of SA has launched a court application seeking to declare alcohol bans imposed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic irrational and invalid, and have them set aside.

Gauteng police have launched a manhunt for a group of suspects after a cash-in-transit heist in Diepsloot on Friday.

Among those left bruised, battered and emotionally scarred by gender-based violence, Lt-Col Marli Strydom is regarded as a mother and ray of sunshine and hope.

The panicked reaction across much of the world to the Omicron Covid-19 variant comes with a scramble for information.

A child and an adult died in an accident involving a truck and a passenger vehicle in the Western Cape on Friday.

Makhura said engineers had advised that some parts of the hospital could be used.

The cost of Covid-19 testing – set at R850 per test by some private laboratories – is being investigated by the Competition Commission after the Council for Medical Schemes raised the issue.

Police minister Bheki Cele could not have provided “executive direction” during the July unrest and looting because he did not receive any intelligence reports from national police commissioner Khehla Sitole or crime intelligence.