A South African man is among nine people Botswana police have killed in a shootout, following a cash-in-transit robbery in the country's capital city, Gaborone.

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The six men charged with the murder of Gauteng Department of Health official Babita Deokaran are expected back in court.

The Stilfontein Regional Court has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the 2012 murder of his niece and her son in Tigane, near Hartbeesfontein.

Police have arrested another man allegedly linked to the deadly shooting in Rosettenville, Johannesburg, bringing the number of arrests to 11. The man was apprehended in Tembisa.

One person has died and 10 others have been injured in a crash in Johannesburg.

A 47-year-old man has been convicted of defrauding the South African Revenue Service of more than R1.5 million.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases says South Africa has recorded 3 118 new Covid-19 infections, representing an 8.7% positivity rate. Six new Covid-19-related deaths have been reported.

Police are searching for a shooter after one person was wounded at a Gqeberha mall. Meanwhile, three men have been arrested in connection with an unrelated shooting at a mall in East London.

Services such as drivers licences come with a direct fee. Others, such as air-traffic control, are paid for in more roundabout fashion.

The assault case against the son of the late human rights activist lawyer George Bizos is expected to go to trial in July.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a high-level meeting about peace and security in the country and surrounding regions.

US drug maker Johnson & Johnson says it is close to clinching a vaccine licence deal with South African group Aspen Pharmacare.

The head of the Eastern Cape's health department, Rolene Wagner, said the one-year-old baby was one of three children from Kariega treated for E.coli infection.

It would be unconstitutional to remove a clause from the Expropriation Bill that allows compensation for expropriation, according to constitutional expert Geoff Budlender.

The body of a newborn baby has been found dumped in Cape Town's city centre, police say.

South Africa's economy has been hammered by Covid-19 induced lockdowns, millions of job losses and slow economic growth.

Morné Hoogbaard, the acting Kannaland municipal manager, and three other senior officials have appeared in the Oudtshoorn Regional Court on fraud charges.

The City of Johannesburg has launched a probe into R94 million which was spent on the Braamfischerville Ext 12 Gravel Roads Upgrade project.

Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town has become the first government facility to perform robotic-assisted surgical procedures using the da Vinci robot.