The ANC has lost its majority in the unstable Phokwane Local Municipality in the Northern Cape after the EFF clinched a seat from the party with the help of its former member and mayor.

A bookkeeper in Gqeberha has been found guilty of tax fraud amounting to about R2.4 million.

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An explosion at a substation in Eldorado Park could lead to another seven days of work to restore electricity to the area.

A man has drowned at Knysna Lagoon in the Western Cape after wading in the water with a friend.

Ndoni Mcunu, 33, got engaged over a year ago and was excitedly looking forward to her big day, but that never came to be as a gas leak cut her young life short.

The IFP has accused eThekwini Municipality employees of blowing up electricity transformers in Nsizwakazi, Klaarwater Township, Durban.

Police Minister Bheki Cele visited Pimville after Kgomotso Diale was shot and killed on Monday, near the chicken farm informal settlement.

In the video, the metro police chief, Israel Kgamanyane, is seen pushing Mzingisi Nkungwana and trying to force him out of the office.

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South Africa's military has so far deployed 400 of the 10 000 troops earmarked for emergency, relief and reconstruction operations in flood-stricken KwaZulu-Natal, a senior army officer says.

The panel who interviewed candidates for the Electoral Commission of South Africa has released its shortlist, and incumbent Glen Mashinini is among them.

Nafiz Modack's return to the Cape Town Regional Court drew a large crowd, watching the spectacle of the transporting of a man the State alleges heads a large criminal enterprise. Modack denies all the charges against him.

One person died and a security official was injured following a shootout at Trade Route Mall in Lenasia, Johannesburg, on Wednesday afternoon.

A Zimbabwean man who spent the past five years in custody has been handed an 18-year prison sentence after being convicted of being in possession of an unlicenced firearm and ammunition.

Despite crime rates continuing to climb, the police's budget for visible policing will again decline, while they continue to spend more on protection services than priority crimes.

In a rare planetary conjunction, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will form a diagonal line in the morning sky.

Fearing further xenophobic violence, many Zimbabweans in the Eastern Cape are repatriating their valuables.

The fifth body belonging to a family that lost 10 of its members in the recent KwaZulu-Natal floods has been found.

The sentencing of the man who murdered Matwetwe actor Sibusiso Khwinana had to be postponed as he terminated the mandate of his legal representative because he was unhappy with his conviction.