The husband of Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille has died.

The president has described the findings of an SIU probe into PPE procurement corruption as 'disturbing reading', saying many 'purposefully set out to steal millions in public money'.

Wilderness Search and Rescue (WSAR) spokesperson Johann Marais said the team was called out to the incident after fellow hikers reported the man had fallen.

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Since the arrests, police have linked one suspect to a series of serious and violent crimes, including several murder and armed robbery cases. The three are also on trial for a business robbery.

An unidentified nine year old surfer has been hailed as a hero after rescuing a teenager who got into difficulty in a rip current on the KZN South Coast this weekend.

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The Special Investigating Unit's procurement report into PPE fraud makes for hard reading, writes Cyril Ramaphosa, but he is encouraged that action is being taken against those involved.

Rescue personnel received a report of a drowning at the Wilge River inlet to the Vaal Dam in the Free State after a fisherman's canoe capsized and he disappeared under water.

Evidence shows that Nedbank entered a pact with disgraced financial services firm Regiments Capital, rewarding it for pushing the bank's financial products to Regiments' clients like Acsa and the City of Johannesburg.

Strong tax revenue from mining companies has bolstered government finances.

The bodies were burnt and the girls have not yet been identified, police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said.

South Africa has recorded 2 435 new Covid-19 infections, along with 110 new Covid-19-related deaths, taking the confirmed death toll to 46 290.

Seven of those who drowned were children and the eighth victim was a man who went back into the river to try to save them, police said.

Dorothy Elaine Lewis, the first Coloured woman to be a matron at Groote Schuur Hospital, died this weekend, according to Heroes of Groote Schuur.

Monday will be a warm to hot day for most parts of the country while the central and northern parts will have isolated showers, the South African Weather Service says.

Emergency services and police in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal had their hands full responding to road crashes and booze fuelled house parties the first weekend after government lifted the Covid-19 alcohol ban.

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine that South Africa received last week might not be effective against the more common 501Y.V2 variant that is spreading locally and globally.

The DA wants to know who funded the tea meeting between EFF leader Julius Malema and former President Jacob Zuma.

Two people are dead and three others injured after two vehicles collided on the N12 in Fochville, Gauteng paramedics say.