Judge President John Hlophe's attorney, Barnabas Xulu, has failed in his urgent bid to challenge the scathing contempt of court ruling made against him.

Emergency Medical Services personnel in the Western Cape have had a busy weekend responding to almost 5 000 incidents, including 660 assault cases.

DA leader John Steenhuisen has ripped into the department of water and sanitation, demanding answers on how it plans to keep the taps running in the Eastern Cape amid declining dam levels.

Two people have been arrested and suspected stolen copper plates worth R3 million recovered in Gauteng.

One of the last two remaining fluent speakers of the oldest surviving San language, Simon Sauls, has died.

A new inland transit facility between SA and Mozambique could slash transport times between the Maputo port and the region’s industrial and business hub.

South Africa’s national Covid-19 vaccine rollout has run for just over three weeks, yet one of the country’s long-standing challenges is already hampering efforts to inoculate two-thirds of the population this year: inequality.

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Three police officers have been arrested for allegedly soliciting a R25 000 bribe to drop a rape charge.

The police have launched a search for five armed suspects who hijacked and kidnapped two brothers in Boksburg North on Saturday evening.

Pretoria police have arrested 10 alleged cash-in-transit robbers, and confiscated an undisclosed amount of cash, 12 firearms and ammunition.

South Africa has recorded 3 285 new Covid-19 infections on Monday and 89 related deaths, taking the toll to 57 063.

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has clarified he does not believe the Digital Vibes investigation has anything to do with ANC politics or the party's presidential race in 2022.

The City of Ekurhuleni is working with power utility, Eskom, to ensure it complies with requirements to implement load shedding, Mayor Mzwandile Masina says.

Former Transnet board member Iqbal Sharma, arrested on fraud and money laundering charges linked to the Vrede dairy farm project - has denied any association with the Gupta family.

The untimely death of a senior Gauteng Human Settlements Department official has left his family devastated.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's attempt to quash Parliament's rules for the removal of a Chapter 9 head, such as herself, got under way in the Western Cape High Court on Monday.

The Gauteng provincial government says it has reason to believe that employees of the provincial Department of Human Settlement are being targeted, Cogta MEC Lebogang Maile says. This after a senior official Teboho Makhoa was shot and killed.

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala has described the brutal murder of his staffer, Hlengiwe Madlala as the most gruesome act of gender-based violence committed recently on a woman in the province.

A KwaZulu-Natal father has been sentenced to 35-years-imprisonment for hacking his girlfriend and three-year-old daughter to death.