A retirement village's refusal to refund residents when they left was part of a well-organised scheme to confuse vulnerable older people, a lawyer has told the Johannesburg high court.

Black men are getting taller thanks to the fruits of democracy. But whites remain 5cm taller than blacks, on average, according to key findings of a study at Wits University.

Readers have weighed in on government's proposal to allow pension fund members to access a portion of their savings to help them keep their heads above water amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dung beetles from a North West game farm have provided the first evidence that city lights leave nocturnal animals in the dark.

A teacher has been fired after a disciplinary hearing was told he made his wife and pregnant simultaneously.

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Four journalists have died in SA of Covid-19 related complications.

Transnet will lift its force majeure declared after port operations were disrupted by a cyberattack.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said in an update on Friday evening that 13,025 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA.

School governing body members face fraud and corruption charges over a security tender worth R3.1m in the Western Cape.

The police have opened an inquest docket after the gruesome discovery of three bodies in a Durban men's boutique that was set alight during civil unrest in the province two weeks ago.

The highest court on Friday declared Qwelane's 2008 column amounted to hate speech after a 13-year legal battle started in the Equality Court by the SAHRC.

An artificial intelligence has invented a food container with a practical adaption for the transfer of heat into and out of the container.

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The department of water and sanitation said on Friday coastal rains had boosted water levels but not made a significant effect in the catchment areas.

The Special Tribunal on Friday dismissed an application by seven contractors awarded contracts to sanitise schools exposed to the coronavirus in Gauteng.

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Supermarkets have no right to refuse to refund you for your recalled tins of Koo veggies if you don’t have a till slip proving you bought them.

DNA proves Kempton Park guesthouse crime scene is not related, say police.

The mid-term estimation for the reopening of the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg is only in 2023, MEC Tasneem Motara has revealed.

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Jackie Shandu, the convener of a coalition of civic groups that marched to Durban City Hall on Thursday, has retracted his 'problematic remarks'.

Some have criticised the justice system, saying Mchunu's arrest was wrongful, while others have accused him of "chasing clout" by vocalising his support for former president Jacob Zuma.

Some of the farmers who were ordered by the high court two weeks ago to leave North West government-owned farms they had occupied since 2019 have indicated they intend to apply for leave to appeal.

Gauteng premier David Makhura says 14,500 jobs in the province have been affected by the recent unrest and looting.

Patriotic Alliance mayoral candidate Bruce Nimmerhoudt was granted bail of R3,000 in the Roodepoort magistrate’s court on Friday morning.

Arena Holdings' podcast division took home a bronze on Thursday night at the IAB Bookmark awards.

Seven others face charges ranging from malicious damage to property and unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition to attempted murder

Russian astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) informed mission control in Moscow on Thursday about a problem with the new Russian Nauka module after it docked at the station a few hours earlier, RIA news agency reported.

The Special Investigating Unit and Hawks investigators on Friday raided the Ratlou local municipality's offices as part of a probe into alleged irregular and overpriced procurement of PPE.