Tsholofelo Dineo Makhubu, 26, a student from Central University of Technology (CUT) in Bloemfontein, has been missing since November, Free State police said on Thursday.

A trial date has been set in the case against a former manager at JA Floral Distributors.

The national health department says wrapping coffins of Covid-19 victims in plastic and attaching biohazard stickers are unnecessary.

The Constitutional Court has ordered former president Jacob Zuma to abide by a summons to appear before the state capture commission and give evidence before it.

Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) has shown how corruption has impacted the ability of countries around the world, including SA, to manage their health-care responses to Covid-19.

Prof Salim Abdool Karim says the evidence on ivermectin is flimsy and there is no compelling case for it to be used as a treatment for Covid-19.

Some praised the move to investigate and release the report publicly, but others lamented the state of the country's health-care system.

Clicks Group said on Thursday it had decided to close its Musica entertainment business due to the shift to digital consumption of music, movies and games, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

A stop and search operation on Wednesday evening led to the discovery of six unlicensed firearms, large quantities of ammunition, police uniform items and the arrest of four suspects.

The government’s budget allocation for basic education is under increased pressure as a growing number of parents with children at fee-paying state schools opt out of paying school fees.

The coronavirus has hit SA's already ailing economy hard and power cuts by state-owned utility Eskom will likely make things worse, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday.

Shonisani Lethole's parents say the past seven months since losing their son have been traumatising.

"Hai, this kind of rain clouds must just go sit under dams and rivers, not in metros"

Pfizer Inc and Biotech's Covid-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant found in SA, according to a laboratory study conducted by the US drugma...

A 23-year-old man from Hartswater in the Northern Cape was sentenced to a 23-year jail term on Wednesday for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in March 2019.

Staff at public health institutions and private laboratories in Zimbabwe are accused of issuing falsified test results in return for bribes.

The Western Cape has called on the government to review its lockdown restrictions.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize announced that 7,070 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, meaning that 1,430,648 cumulative infections have now been recorded.

A teenage boy’s opening up to his soccer coach about the alleged rape he suffered at the hands of a traditional healer lifted the lid on the alleged violation of four other boys and a girl.

An investigation into the unsolved case of a 10-year-old hit-and-run-victim who was then abducted and died alone, far from her home

The case against a man arrested in connection with the leaking of matric exams has been postponed for further investigation.

More than 750 Covid-19 related deaths were recorded across SA in a 24-hour period for just the fourth time.

No-one will be expected to pay when they get the vaccine, says a technical adviser to the health department, Dr Aquina Thulare

The plane carrying SA's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive in the country on February 1.

Families of the four health-care workers and a pilot who were killed when a helicopter they were travelling in crashed in KwaZulu-Natal last week visited the accident site on Wednesday morning.

The SABC board has asked for time to look at proposals made by ministers Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams and Thulas Nxesi to try and resolve the ongoing industrial relations impasse at the broadcaster.

Social media reacted strongly to the release of the health ombud's report on the death of Lethole in Tembisa Hospital last year.

Three men were arrested for stealing a cellphone tower battery in Inchanga, west of Durban, on Tuesday.

Police are investigating a double murder in which alleged abalone smuggler Leon Titus and Patrick de Kock were gunned down during a rendezvous next to a farm road in Philippi on Tuesday.

Three men have been left traumatised after a group of motorcyclists assaulted them after a collision in Mpumalanga.