Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has pointed to controversial ANC figure Carl Niehaus as an instigator of the violence that swept across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

A number of vehicles were destroyed in a fire that ripped through a business premises in Philippi on Wednesday night.

Nineteen bags of dagga weighing about 341.7kg were seized near Low's Creek, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday and a 38-year-old man was arrested and charged with possession of drugs.

The University of Cape Town has announced the launch of an online high school, with the first intake of students set for January 2022. The school has been dubbed one of the "most affordable private schools" in the country.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment said it was concerned about the impact of a chemical fire at the UPL chemical plant in Cornubia, Durban, on air quality and marine ecosystems. The plant was torched during the unrest in KwaZul...

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority is evaluating medical records of 28 people who died after receiving their Covid-19 vaccine. But the regulator says these fatalities, while being assessed, do not outnumber what one would expect i...

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The Western Cape government has issued the City of Cape Town with a pre-directive over pollution in the False Bay Nature Reserve. The pollution appears to have been caused by a sewage leak.

The South African National Editors’ Forum says registrations for journalists for the Covid-19 vaccine are almost complete.

A manhunt has been launched for four dangerous prisoners who allegedly escaped from a police vehicle in Westenburg, Polokwane.

Toyota says it has had "positive engagement with national government in particular".

South Africa recorded 16 240 new laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 infections on Wednesday and 516 deaths, bringing the official death toll to 68 192.

Unrest, and its consequences, could be seen from space.

Western Cape commuters have raised concerns about pay cuts and threats of possible job losses after missing days of work due to the lack of public transport caused by the ongoing taxi strike.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says motorcades and marches, held in the name of freeing former president Jacob Zuma, and linked to protesting "racist attacks" in Phoenix, north of Durban, are not sanctioned by the provincial structure.

While recent research found that over 71% of South Africans are willing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, government has indicated its concern with increasing reports of vaccine hesitancy.

South African troops have been deployed as part of the Southern African Development Community’s Standby Force to combat terrorism in Cabo Delgado.

The Presidency is "not happy" that President Cyril Ramaphosa's personal cellphone appeared to have been the target of spyware, and the State Security Agency must investigate whether his phone was tampered with, acting Minister in the Presidency Khumb...

Rand Water has confirmed that its B16 pipeline, which runs from Zuikerbosch to Slangfontein, was vandalised on Tuesday evening.

Former acting national police commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane has lost another bid challenging his dismissal from the police.