Four petrol station convenience store employees were injured when a car crashed into the shop near the Pavilion shopping centre in Westville, Durban, on Saturday morning.

Sun City resort in the North West kick-started the festive season with its annual Christmas tree lights switch-on ceremony outside Sun Central on Friday.

A 36-year-old Limpopo man has been sentenced to 19 years for stealing six vehicles from a Ford dealership.

Eleven suspects were arrested on Friday night after attempting to pull off a robbery in OR Tambo International Airport's cargo precinct, says the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa).

In October, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet committed to a range of reforms to the country’s intelligence services. He based these reforms on recommendations made by the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture.

The new book The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations who Profit from Impunity is welcome for the way it contextualises corruption. It shows how politicians and bureaucrats could not implement corruption without their corporate...

More than 30 militants and two soldiers were killed in a clash in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) mission to Mozambique (SAMIM) said this week.

US president Joe Biden does not intend to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about ending the Ukraine war as conditions for such discussions currently do not exist, the White House said.

Russia is likely planning to encircle the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut with tactical advances to the north and south, Britain's defence ministry said on Saturday.

Beijing residents on Saturday cheered the removal of Covid-19 testing booths while Shenzhen said it would no longer require commuters to present test results to travel, as an easing of China's virus curbs gathered pace.

The life sentence imposed this week on a man who raped a disabled woman in Maluti, Eastern Cape, last year motivates the police and assists towards rebuilding the confidence of communities in the justice system.

The department of employment and labour has welcomed the arrest of two Mpumalanga shop owners who allegedly tried to bribe one of its inspectors to avoid being issued a compliance order.

Democratic Republic of the Congo agreed to lobby to get US sanctions on Israeli businessman Dan Gertler lifted and pay his company $250 million in a February deal with Gertler's company that the country published on Thursday.

The breakdown of six generating units at five power stations has forced Eskom to implement continuous stage 2 load-shedding from Friday afternoon until further notice.

European Union countries will consider on Friday a proposal for a gas price cap slightly lower than a Brussels proposal that some view as too high, with a handful of countries pushing for an even lower limit, documents seen by Reuters showed.

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the scale of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), has sworn an oath of allegiance to Russia and received a Russian passport, TASS reported on Friday.

Police in Gauteng are searching for the killer or killers of respected young Tshwane teacher Sinoxolo Gcilitshana.

Properties in exclusive locations and luxury vehicles belonging to several people charged with fraud and corruption in the Mhlathuze Water case were some of the assets attached by the NPA's Asset Forfeiture Unit on Friday.

South Africa found itself ostracised this time last year for being the "home" of the then newly detected Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19.

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A voltage transformer at Lynnwood primary substation in Tshwane caught fire on Thursday night, causing the facility to go offline.

The South African National Blood Service is calling for blood donations before the festive season.

Three suspects have been arrested for illegal possession and processing of abalone in Cape Town.

The Hawks have swooped on two kidnapping suspects in Cape Town after they withdrew ransom money paid by the victims’ families.

Prosecutor Yusuf Baba argued in court that the nature of the accident was so horrific that it demands a custodial sentence.

One social media user wrote: "Imagine Sgt Mazibuko responding to a braai complaint. Sgt Mazibuko: 'Unfortunately there are no vans at the station so what must I do?'"

The annual migration sees between 80,000 and 155,000 butterflies per hour journey from the Kalahari to Mozambique, via Gauteng.

The anti-gang unit has arrested a 42-year-old suspect in connection with the murder of a Cape Town police officer.

South Africa’s medicines regulator will announce a decision on the approval of a two-monthly HIV prevention jab within days. If the shot is approved, the health department could start rolling it out on a large scale within nine months — but that ...

A Cape Town VIP protection company director who contravened the Firearm Controls Act has avoided jail after entering into a plea and sentencing agreement with the state.