Health minister Joe Phaahla said the side-effect of heart inflammation in young boys will be closely monitored.

Disgruntled military veterans who allegedly held ministers Thandi Modise and Mondli Gungubele 'hostage' last week are set to appear in the prison court at the Kgosi Mampuru correctional facility in Pretoria on Monday.

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo vowed on Sunday to continue in politics "until my death" as he launched a new party following his acquittal by the International Criminal Court and return from a decade abroad.

Reality televison star Kim Kardashian in the nude has emerged as the most searched for celebrity among South Africans.

Images of former president Jacob Zuma spotted out and about at Sibaya Casino near Durban have sparked a major debate online, with many questioning the condition of his undisclosed illness and parole.

There were 42 seismic tremors on the island on Sunday, the largest of which measured 4.3, according to the Spanish National Geographical Institute.

A joint operation led to the arrests of 25 people in Witbank, Mpumalanga, after stolen copper and mining equipment was found.

A Bloemfontein police constable will appear in court on Monday for allegedly trapping his wife’s fingers in a car window and driving off, dragging her along the ground.

A shootout earlier in October that lasted five hours and left eight people dead is the latest in a string of clashes between police, private mine security and illicit miners.

Police have made three arrests after the suspected gang-related shooting of guests at a birthday party in Mitchells Plain at the weekend.

The Gauteng roads and transport department has obtained an order interdicting violence between the Witwatersrand African Taxi Owners Association and the Nancefield Dube West Taxi Association.

Recovering drug addicts in Klerksdorp, North West, share their stories of pain, grief and addiction.

Five important things you need to know about the e-certificates.

This investigative podcast is uncovering the predatory actions of paedophiles within the South African school system and shedding light on how many young boys and men have their lives devastated by sexual grooming and abuse.

Coronavirus updates.

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) had a busy few days, rescuing vessels in distress and assisting people reach the shore.

The new Miss SA Lalela Mswane said on Sunday she will start the conversation about unemployment among the youth and seek meaningful solutions to this problem.

A man who ran into a burning house to try to rescue a three-year-old boy died along with the child when they were trapped in the inferno.

A man who allegedly admitted to raping and then killing his 70-year-old mother is expected to appear in the Coligny magistrate's court on Monday.

A man who escaped after seeing a patrol vehicle in Athlone, Cape Town, is behind bars after he was arrested with an illegal firearm on Saturday.

A woman has been airlifted out of the Kruger National Park for cardiac care, a man is in critical condition after he was ejected from his car when it rolled and a child drowned in a townhouse complex swimming pool in three separate incidents this wee...

The World Medical Association wants all websites offering unregulated medical products to be shut down.

There should be no place for lawlessness in SA, be it by alleged military veteran hostage takers, warring taxi-drivers and Somali shopkeepers, those behind political killings, or looters and insurrectionists.

A woman aged 24 was shot and later died and seven others were wounded in a shooting in Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town, on Saturday night.

Gert Vermeulen – a family man, IT specialist and passionate crusader who worked hard to get bicycle donations for rural children to get to school – has been shot dead for a bicycle and wallet.

Seven men between the ages of 25 and 35 were killed in a horror crash between a minibus taxi and a truck on the R545 between Bethal and Kriel in Mpumalanga on Sunday morning.

Police in Democratic Republic of Congo used tear gas to break up clashes between supporters of the president and an opposition leader on Saturday, as lawmakers selected a new head of the electoral commission.

Max Mqadi's rags to riches story almost ended in tragedy when the Durban businessman escaped death in an assassination attempt outside his renowned establishment in Umlazi, south of Durban, this week.

US President Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to move forward with policing reform, telling a gathering honoring slain officers that their profession is called on to do too much.

Cynthia Makokha was a 17-year-old student and volleyball player. Agnes Tirop was a 25-year-old rising athletics star, who finished fourth in the 5,000m race at the Tokyo Olympics and had won two World Championship bronze medals.