A psychologist who evaluated the 56-year-old man charged with murdering a 13-year-old boy in Klawer in the Western Cape has recommended that he be sent for psychiatric evaluation.

If Kate Manaka were to get an opportunity to face the man dubbed the Limpopo serial killer, she would ask him to "tell the truth".

As the country commemorates 27 years since the first democratic elections were held in 1994, many residents across the country have different views on what freedom means to them.

President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday on the government's response to the disaster.

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The ANC's national executive committee resolved that its guidelines governing the step-aside rule should be amended to explicitly state that leaders facing criminal charges cannot be allowed to be elected into office.

Ugenius Saga, 31, Lloyd Mandumbu, 30, and Tatenda Ngwenya, 33, appeared in the Polokwane High Court, where they were sentenced for the murder of Alwyn Petrus van Zyl.

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Former Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association spokesperson Carl Niehaus has warned despite bowing out of the MKMVA presidency race, the frontrunner was not as clear cut as some would like to make it out to be.

Constable Petrus Nnetlane, 35, and Mollo Phillip Lucas, 30, appeared in court on Monday, where they were charged with fraud and defeating the ends of justice.

President Cyril Ramaphosa presented the government's relief plan for flood victims in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, but opposition parties took the opportunity to take a swipe at the ANC.

The Klawer man arrested in connection with the gruesome killing of a 13-year-old boy has been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation at Valkenberg Hospital.

The police have arrested an 80-year-old man for failing to appear in court last Wednesday in connection with a charge related to him performing a sex act on a neighbour's chained dog.

Newly elected ANC eThekwini regional chairperson Zandile Gumede has abided by the party's step-aside rule following allegations of corruption against her.

The lawyer representing four of the five men accused of murdering Bafana Bafana player Senzo Meyiwa revealed in court that the DNA found on a hat allegedly belonging to the person who pulled the trigger was that of a woman.

Hundreds of disgruntled farmworkers continued protesting in Kirkwood in the Eastern Cape.

My Only Story: Back to school, podcast co-produced by News 24 and the My Only Story NPC, with Johannesburg writer Deon Wiggett, has won top honours at the New York Festivals Radio Awards.

The first forensic detective who arrived on the scene where former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa was murdered, doesn't believe that the scene was tampered with.

The 1982 Congress of South African Students triple murder case in which apartheid-era cop Christian Siebert Rorich and former askari Tlhomedi Ephraim Mfalapitsa had been implicated, was postponed.

Residents in Taiwan informal settlement in Khayelitsha Site C, Cape Town, say their toilets have not been cleaned for five weeks.