A Special Investigating Unit report into the state's spending on its response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been made public. The unit identified assets and money totalling R551.5 million that needed to be recovered on the basis of its probes.

Amathole Mayor Nceba Ndikinda has vowed to investigate allegations that a councillor was assaulted at the municipal offices. Videos are circulating on social media of mayco member Nanziwe Rulashe being dragged from her office.

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Police in Limpopo have launched a 72-hour activation plan after three people were killed in a mob attack.

A Pretoria clinic has been targeted by burglars, who have stolen 25 computers and other equipment.

South Africa recorded 1 332 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday.

Three sentenced prisoners and former Boeremag members Dr Lets Pretorius and his sons, doctors Johan and Wilhelm Pretorius have been granted permission to keep their laptops in their cells for study purposes.

Former Free State MEC for Police, Roads and Transport, Butana Komphela has died, Premier Sefora Ntombela confirmed.

The fallout from the sex scandal involving former Western Cape Community Safety MEC Albert Fritz has led to more suspensions.

The Department of Health has disputed claims made by the Commission for Gender Equality, that Covid-19 vaccines are not safe for women of reproductive age and pregnant women.

Wheelchair-bound residents were among dozens of Eerste River residents left in long queues with empty buckets in the hope of getting clean water.

Tshegofatso Pule was allegedly nearly lured to a location under the guise of an offer of employment a week before her death, the Johannesburg High Court heard.

The ANC in the Western Cape has requested an urgent sitting of the portfolio Committee on Community Safety amid an alleged sexual harassment scandal that has led to MEC for Community Safe Albert Fritz being suspended.

Pupils and staff at Phomolong Secondary School are grieving for widely loved and respected deputy principal Thembisile Ngendane, who was gunned down outside the school gate on Friday.

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.

An Ekhurhuleni community has taken legal action against the City because it wants chemical toilets replaced.

Suspended ANC MP Mervyn Dirks is seeking an urgent interdict in the Western Cape High Court to prevent the party's parliamentary caucus from appointing another MP in his place.

Ten more names of Eastern Cape places, including five towns, have been submitted to the Eastern Cape Provincial Geographical Names Committee for renaming.

A Cape Town man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death, then putting her body in a wheelie bin, will remain in custody as he prepares to apply for bail.

The boyfriend of the late Jacqueline Mpontsana finally appeared in court on a charge of murder. She was set alight allegedly during an argument at his home in Gugulethu, Cape Town, and had been on the run.