Each prisoner costs taxpayers R10,890 a month, says correctional services minister Ronald Lamola.

Police foiled a truck heist in Midrand, Gauteng, recovered firearms, cars and netted several suspects on Friday.

SA will on Monday join more than 100 UN member states at a high-level meeting on the commitment to eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse among peacekeeping personnel.

The Covid-19 lockdown halved the number of illegal immigrants SA deported.

Family and religious gatherings during Ramadan may have inadvertently acted as Covid-19 superspreader events in Muslim communities, some of SA's leading scientists and public health specialists have suggested.

An Eastern Cape secretary will spend the next 15 years behind bars for swindling the Road Accident Fund (RAF) of more than R11m.

A Cape Town businessman who collected R2.3m for unauthorised funeral policies will spend the next three years under correctional supervision.

A deadly cocktail of "taxi hunts", racial conflict and state capture threatens to wipe out SA's most endangered buck, the diminutive oribi, say farmers.

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A man who made 46 court appearances over seven years before being jailed for rape was freed on the spot by a judge who castigated prosecutors and magistrates for the delays.

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22.5 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020.

Netcare said on Friday that it had increased hospital bed capacity, brought it more resident medical officers and tried to ensure it had enough supplies of oxygen and medication as Covid-19 cases continued to rise in Gauteng.

Two security guards have been fired for assaulting an elderly patient at a KwaZulu-Natal hospital, the provincial health department said on Friday.

Gauteng accounted for 63% of the country's 18,762 new infections, according to figures released by the NICD on Friday.

This week the efficacy study, which is led by the University of Washington, received a $122m grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to test the effectiveness of a once-a-month oral pill to prevent HIV.

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The national senior certificate exams for matric pupils will start on November 1 and end on December 7, according to a circular signed by department of basic education acting deputy director-general Rufus Poliah.

Netcare Milpark Hospital has warned potential job seekers not to fall for scams on social media platforms such as WhatsApp, SMS or e-mail offering employment at the hospital.

'My Kitchen Rules SA' judges David Higgs and J’Something hosted a mass virtual cook-along in aid of charity — and made history in the process.

Fake messages on social media have led to scores of unemployed people gathering at SA Security Agency offices in Ladysmith and Dundee for R750 food vouchers on Friday.

The department has assured teachers employed by school governing bodies and at private schools that they will receive their Covid-19 jabs in the next few weeks.

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane appeared in the Pretoria magistrate's court on Friday in connection with a perjury case in which she is accused of lying under oath.

'Miracle man' Dave Smith has lived with an active coronavirus infection for 10 months.

'We have to be our own president and lock down our social lives to level 5,' writes Dr Daniel Israel, a general practitioner in Melrose, Johannesburg.

The second phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout will be expanded to taxi drivers, says transport minister Fikile Mbalula.

Hearing and reading about some of the horrific acts perpetrated on children in our country, we would be forgiven for thinking this is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.

The group, which has vaccinated more than 35,000 people countrywide, said on Thursday it aims to vaccinate as many people as possible in Gauteng, KZN and the Western Cape.

Eskom has announced that it will implement a conditional 1.5% basic wage increase from July 1.

As Covid-19 cases continue to rise across the country, the ministerial advisory committee has issued responses to questions about the coronavirus and vaccination process.

Acting Minister in the presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says government will always choose to save lives over livelihoods during the Covid-19 pandemic.