An Eastern Cape police officer charged with kidnapping a shop owner has forfeited her vehicle to the state.

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Only one out of 24,519 matric exam scripts is missing after a storm ripped the roof off a Free State high school being used as a marking centre.

Police confiscated two vehicles from suspects who were arrested for illegal possession of West Coast rock lobster tails this week.

Narwhals, the "unicorns of the sea" that live in the Arctic, have transmitted a 12,000km distress signal to the sea creatures in the path of a seismic survey off the Wild Coast of SA.

A Western Cape police officer sustained a gunshot wound during a shoot-out with suspected farm robbers.

The eThekwini municipality is investigating an incident caught on video in which one of its employees was seen driving inside the Galleria Mall in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban.

Three people were taken to hospital after they were stung by a large swarm of bees while on a boat cruise on the Kowie River in Port Alfred in the Eastern Cape.

Of the new cases, Gauteng recorded the highest number (5,850), followed by KwaZulu-Natal (5,134) and the Western Cape (3,655).

The world’s biggest survey ship, the Amazon Warrior, has at least the weekend to continue its seismic blasting for Shell along the ecologically sensitive Wild Coast.

Disgraced property mogul Jason Rohde has run out of options after the Constitutional Court dismissed his application for leave to appeal against his murder conviction.

18-year-old Sazi Bongwe from Oaklands, Johannesburg, received confirmation of his admission to the Ivy League institution on Friday morning.

There’s no law compelling a store to take back a cellphone if you have a change of heart, given that it is not defective.

Drugs with an estimated value of R10m were discovered abandoned on Oyster Bay’s main beach on Friday morning.

Authorities in Democratic Republic of the Congo on Thursday declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that emerged in early October in North Kivu province and infected 11 people, killing six of them.

Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe was ignorant and gravely insulting when he accused communities along the Wild Coast who are challenging Shell’s seismic survey of “engaging in colonialism and apartheid of a special sort”, it...

On August 28 2000, Leslie van Zyl checked into room 205 at the Protea Hotel in George, in the Western Cape. She never left.

A group from God’s Church Must Rise (GCMR) is demanding the public and private sector stop “harassing” workers to provide Covid-19 vaccine certificates.

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been told to #PayBackTheMoney.

The SA Medical Research Council’s waste water surveillance team has detected rapidly rising concentrations of Covid-19 fragments in samples collected from facilities in rural areas.

The Johannesburg magistrate’s court on Friday dismissed former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini’s application to have her perjury case discharged.

The police have apprehended a 38-year-old man for attempted murder after a night of carousing with a lover allegedly went sour.

At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire swept through a psychiatry clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday, and media said police were investigating suspected arson.

The Australian authorities on Friday continued investigating the deaths of five children after a jumping castle was lifted into the air from strong winds at a school end-of-year celebration as condolences flowed into the grieving small coastal city.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party lost control of a previously safe parliamentary seat on Friday in a surprise election result interpreted as a voter backlash against a British leader beset by crises and scandal.

Activists are taking oil giant Shell to court over its Wild Coast seismic survey on Friday after another application on the same matter was dismissed two weeks ago.

Magopeni was charged in November for alleged negligence and bringing the public broadcaster into disrepute.

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has seven days to pay back the more than R11.5m “success fee” paid to him by the public broadcaster in 2016.

Most Covid-19 patients who died in SA hospitals since mid-November were unvaccinated or partly vaccinated.

Police minister Bheki Cele says law enforcement agencies are ready to handle any unrest that could be prompted by former president Jacob Zuma being ordered to return to jail.