21 people have been killed, including 19 school pupils, after a truck crashed into a bakkie on the N2 near Pongola, in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

The sixth annual Silent Walk and Run will be held in Johannesburg on Saturday as part of International Week of Deaf People and aims to raise awareness of gender-based violence within the hearing impaired community.

A Cape Town principal has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award for his work in uplifting a Grassy Park school.

KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane has cracked the whip and called on newly appointed hospital CEOs to be more accessible to the public.

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Sanef chairperson Sbu Ngalwa said rebuilding Nat Nakasa's gravestone was not just about the structure, but about giving him the home he didn't have in exile as well as preserving the history of South African journalism.

Starting his visit over breakfast with Vice President Kamala Harris, President Cyril Ramaphosa voiced gratitude to the United States for its "considerable support" during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The IFP has marched to City Press' offices after editor-in-chief Mondli Makhanya wrote an opinion piece about its founder, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and his role during the apartheid era.

More than 50 civil society groups gathered on the steps of Parliament on Friday to hand over a formal submission to the Speaker of the National Assembly, rejecting the Electoral Amendment Bill currently before Parliament.

Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies has broken his silence following reports of an alleged affair. Jantjies says he let himself, his family and rugby loving fans of the country down and deeply regrets his actions.

The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for disruptive rain over parts of the Eastern Cape.

The lead investigator in the much-publicised murder case of OR Tambo Municipality worker Namhla Mtwa has quit after receiving death threats.

A woman who was raped, and her grandmother murdered, was described as a credible witness who helped the court convict their attackers.

Advocate Malesela Teffo lacks a sense of responsibility, honesty, integrity and no longer meets the threshold of a fit and proper person.

One of the defence lawyers in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial has apologised for shouting at a witness.

Several areas across Cape Town have either been left without water or with low water pressure due to essential maintenance work on the Cape Flats bulk water network.

Police have completed their investigation against Flavio Hlabangwane, the man accused of dismembering a woman's body and storing her body parts in a freezer.

The Northern Cape Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has apologised to two renowned South African authors following an incident of alleged copyright infringement.

Hundreds of residents in the small Free State town of Jagersfontein were displaced after the dam at a diamond mine burst and flooded the area on Sunday.