A 30-year-old Free State man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his friend during a quarrel while drinking.

A North West school has been vandalised at least five times, with the most recent incident seeing the school robbed of electric cables, taps, roofing, books, window frames and doors.

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Matric exam results will no longer be published on media platforms, the Department of Basic Education has announced.

Firefighters are battling a blaze in the coastal Overberg town of Kleinmond for a fourth day. Nearly 4 700 hectares of fynbos and plantations have been damaged.

Recent estimates from the South African Weather Service shows that 2021 was the 13th hottest year on record.

South Africa will become more attractive to international visitors if it drops the current mandatory Covid-19 PCR test, according to tourism groups.

The country recorded 2 409 new Covid-19 positive cases in the 24-hour reporting cycle.

A 35-year-old man who is accused of smashing the Vryburg Magistrate's court windows made his first court appearance on Monday.

Gauteng police swiftly arrested two armed men immediately after robbing a Roosevelt Park surgery.

The National Prosecuting Authority is busy with a "thorough investigation" to determine whether the inquest into former ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli's death should be reopened.

Swift reaction by North West police has led to the arrest of four armed robbers, the seizure of a BMW X5 SUV, and recovery of a stolen courier van.

Former deputy president of South Africa Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has been appointed as chancellor of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to succeed Professor Njabulo Ndebele, the university’s council announced on Monday.

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.

While the highest court in the land recently ruled that women in long-term heterosexual relationships can inherit from their partner's estate, a dissenting judgment further considered it appropriate to refer the matter to Parliament.

Three children, aged five, seven and nine, drowned in two separate incidents in the Free State and North West over the weekend.

Thousands of Capetonians flocked to the beach this weekend, keeping law enforcement officials and police on high alert.

Four suspected robbers who were arrested in Pinetown, Durban, were found with explosives and articles of police uniforms.

A man has been arrested for the murder of a man who allegedly shot and killed his brother, Mpumalanga police say.

Mpumalanga police have distanced themselves from a statement attributed to provincial police commissioner Semakaleng Manamela who claims that four heavily armed suspects who are acquainted with a former provincial Cabinet member were arrested.