Eskom has been escalating rolling blackout stages since the beginning of the week, implementing stage 6 load-shedding on Sunday.

Beleaguered power utility Eskom implemented stage 6 rolling blackouts on Sunday, putting sharper focus on SA's continuing energy crisis.

The Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Investigation unit has arrested a 55-year-old suspect in connection with the murder of an off-duty policeman in Bramley View, Johannesburg, on August 26.

The administration and ablution blocks as well as 11 classrooms at Garies High School in the Northern Cape were gutted by fire on Saturday.

The truck driver involved in Friday's deadly crash in Pongola that killed 21 people has been arrested, the KwaZulu-Natal department of transport has confirmed.

The National Prosecuting Authority in KwaZulu-Natal has welcomed the heavy sentence handed down to a former police officer who fraudulently claimed from the Road Accident Fund without the victims' knowledge.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal are searching for the driver of a truck that collided with a vehicle transporting schoolchildren on Friday, killing 21 people.

eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda has promised the city’s beaches will be ready for this year’s festive season.

Mine management knew about leakages in the Jagersfontein dam wall, but did nothing, according to the parliamentary portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy.

The R101 (Pretoria Main Road) Road in Midrand will be partially closed on Saturday and Sunday to allow work on the overhead powerline at the corner of the R101 and Allandale roads.

Vigilant KwaZulu-Natal hospital staff foiled an alleged baby thief's attempts to “steal” a four-day-old infant this week.

Ethekwini's hijacked building programme is showing results, says deputy city manager

When SA identified new variants of Covid-19 during the height of the pandemic it faced discrimination, isolation and a tirade of travel bans from richer nations, with some labelling Africa as the main source of the variants.

The amaZulu royal family is expected to host the annual Zulu maidens reed dance  at the Enyokeni palace in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Eskom implemented stage 5 load-shedding on Saturday.

Environmental authorities in the Western Cape have warned the public not to approach or handle seabirds after four new cases of avian flu were detected in one of the popular tourist sites, the Boulders Penguin Colony in Simon's Town.

The Competition Tribunal on Friday granted interim relief to the Sekunjalo Group, preventing Standard Bank, Mercantile and Bidvest from closing their bank accounts.

The “predicament” of suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane was that “she is sitting for three months and a week now … in circumstances where all she has ever done is do her work,” said her counsel Dali Mpofu SC in the Western Cape h...

A man who raped his 15-year-old sister in the Northern Cape in March this year has been sentenced to life.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Friday welcomed the successful finalisation of the case against Yunus Moolla, a ponzi scheme mastermind who defrauded 3,799 investors of about R500m.

Five months into the high-profile murder case of Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa and some shocking revelations have come up following the third state witness Tumelo Madlala taking the stand this past week.

The US department of the treasury’s office of foreign assets control has added a top Zimbabwean police official to its sanctions list, while removing the names of 11 other Zimbabweans.

The death toll in a collision between a truck and a bakkie transporting children on the N2 between Pongola and Itshelejuba on Friday afternoon has risen to 17.

The Legal Practice Council on Friday said it does not take pleasure when legal practitioners are struck off the roll, but highlighted the importance of protecting the law from officials who do not act in line with the rules.

The family of the late Nathaniel “Nat” Nakasa has called for the government to build a museum to pay tribute to the iconic journalist to preserve his story.

Eskom's justification for the price hike does not hold water, says independent economic and energy analyst Tshepo Kgadima.

A young Iranian woman has died after falling into a coma following her detention by morality police enforcing Iran's strict hijab rules, her uncle was quoted as saying on Friday, in a case that has sparked protest by Iranians on social media.

A serial rapist from Daveyton in Ekurhuleni, who lured his victims by promising them jobs, was on Friday sentenced to four life terms and an additional 30 years for seven rape convictions.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told Russian President Vladimir Putin that now is not a time for war, with food, fertiliser and fuel security among the major concerns of the world at present.

Metro police head Steve Middleton has won a two-year battle concerning his 2017 appointment.