Police Minister Bheki Cele was in Caluza, Pietermaritzburg, on Wednesday morning visiting the family of a slain EFF ward candidate, Michael Thulani Shangase.

The City of Cape Town and the NSRI have embarked on an 'experiment' to use a non-toxic fluorescein dye to expose the flow of rip currents. It is hoped this will help with beach safety education.

Police have arrested someone in Rocklands in the Eastern Cape for allegedly setting a house on fire in Kariega while six people were inside.

A total of 3 111 930 people are registered to vote in the upcoming municipal elections in the Western Cape, with 1 973 696 eligible to cast their ballot in the City of Cape Town.

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The Out of Order index, calculated from a set of data painstakingly collated over the last two months by a News24 team, suggests the crisis in service delivery is likely to deepen.

The vaccination of children aged 12 to 17 has opened, the national health department has said.

To prevent the spread of Covid-19 on voting day, the traditional indelible ink marker pens will be replaced with a liquid.

More than 11 million people in South Africa are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Police are investigating a shooting in Pretoria that has left four people dead and an unknown number of people injured.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA has received donations totalling more than R300 000 that were raised by participants in the Cape Town Cycle Tour and Cape Town Marathon.

The ANC has moved to appease voters ahead of the municipal elections by making its candidates sign a service delivery pledge.

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 Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Mozambique's first president Samora Machel, vowing to go after Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc in the north of the country.

The Western Cape High Court has granted the EFF interim relief and interdicted the City of Cape Town from removing the party’s election banners.

Former spy boss Arthur Fraser has objected to the nomination of Raymond Zondo as the next chief justice, saying he is not "fit and proper" to hold the position.

Shoppers, tenants and staff working at the Rosebank Mall in Johannesburg were evacuated following a bomb threat on Tuesday morning.

Journalists for e.tv, Natalie Malgas and cameraman Lance Manjoro, were robbed on Monday after they had finished interviewing community leaders in the township.

Murder accused Nancy Majonhi is unfit to attend court after she refusing to eat hospital food.

Severe thunderstorms will lead to excessive lightning in parts of the Northern Cape on Wednesday, in what is expected to be a warm to hot day across the country, according to the South African Weather Service.