An East London man, angered by the prospect of having an ANC election poster hung on a pole outside his home, got into a scuffle with party volunteers on Friday.
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has stayed an warrant for the arrest Johannesburg City manager Floyd Brink.
A possible motive for the suspension of Unisa’s acting chief financial officer, Reshma Mathura, was her cooperation in an Hawks investigation into corruption at the institution., AfriForum claims.
More than five million police case dockets have been closed without result, in the last five years because of a lack of leads.
At first glance, Belinda Pheto’s home village, Madidi in the North West, looks vastly different from 1994. Pheto went back to Madidi to see what residents think of her home
A fire on Table Mountain, raging for almost a week, led firefighters to venture into nearly unreachable areas to put out the flames.
The lawyer representing Jacob Zuma and his uMkhonto weSizwe Party has suggested the former head of state may choose not to go to Parliament if he is elected, because he
Three Westair Aviation employees have been killed in am aircraft crash in Windhoek, Namibia.
A flight permitting problem in South Africa meant that US tech billionaire Ankur Jain and his bride-to-be were late for their own wedding celebration at the Muhammed Ali Palace in
A 39-year-old Durban woman has alleged that Momentum is depriving her of her share of a R30-million life insurance payout following the death of her boyfriend – but Momentum says
Former ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe was campaigning in Diepkloof, Soweto, on Friday morning.
The Western Cape Health and Wellness Department has more than 300 unidentified bodies in its state mortuaries. Of these, 66 are children, while most of the deceased are men.
President Cyril Ramaphosa warned DA leader John Steenhuisen that the upcoming general election would be the real show of political strength.
KwaZulu-Natal police have finally arrested someone, the boyfriend of an 18-year-old matric pupil who was whipped and beaten to death, after they initially opened an inquest docket – not a
In a pivotal moment for the ANC, Mdumiseni Ntuli, who is head of elections at the party, is hoping to orchestrate a strategic campaign leveraging the gravitas of party veterans
Laudium Secondary School charged Grade 9 pupil, Feerozah Ismail, with bringing its name into disrepute for mentioning the monthly school fee of R1 200 during an EFF meeting.
The Electoral Commission of South Africa asked the Electoral Court to sanction MK Party leaders, Visvin Reddy and Bonginkosi Education Khanyile, for what it views as “inciteful” comments.
A German national faces charges of trafficking and fraud after he was arrested with two Madagascan women, aged 32 and 29, whom he allegedly attempted to take to Croatia.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban has dismissed, with costs, a media application to broadcast proceedings in the corruption case against former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede and others, citing the
Alistair Stanbull, a Cape Town hiker, disappeared on Monday. The Western Cape police’s K9 Unit, SANParks, Fire and Rescue Services, various drone teams, City of Cape Town law enforcement agencies
Former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe says the ANC’s step-aside policy is clear that once formally charged, members must step down from their positions and be relieved of their responsibilities.
The start of the weekend brings a chance of high fire danger as well as damaging interior winds in multiple regions across the country, according to the South African Weather
Jacob Zuma wants the Constitutional Court justices, who sentenced him to 15 months’ imprisonment, recused from deciding whether he should be allowed to be a candidate in the upcoming election.
A four-year-old boy from Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape is fighting for his life in hospital after he was discovered with his throat slit and intestines out in
The R80-million investment in robotic surgery technology has the potential to save the Western Cape health department millions, and also means that patients are able to bounce back faster after
The gruesome details surrounding the brutal death of Desiree Baartman were finally revealed in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha.
There are no exceptional circumstances to warrant the release of the suspected hitmen charged with the February 2023 murder of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend, businessman Tebello “Tibz”
Gauteng traffic police distanced itself from a purported traffic officer, caught on dashcam footage, pulling over a truck which was then seemingly hijacked.
The Zululand District Municipality – led by Zulu kingdom prime minister Thulasizwe Buthelezi, who doubles as mayor and a political foe of the ANC-led government – faces “serious governance and
The move by the ANC to discipline its recalcitrant former president, Jacob Zuma, is futile and further fans the flames of victimhood he so relishes, writes Natasha Marrian.
Gauteng traffic police distanced itself from a purported traffic officer, caught on dashcam footage, pulling over a truck which was then seemingly hijacked.
Through his decision to form the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, former president Jacob Zuma has “written his own history”, his former deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe, said on Friday.
A fire that raged on the mountain above Kirstenbosch for several days since the weekend has largely been contained, but at least 60 firefighters will remain in the area for
The idea of being jailed left Johannesburg City manager Floyd Brink “dumbstruck” and his bid to have a warrant for his arrest stayed caused him “great stress”, he has said
A video clip of a Glenvista High School teacher and two pupils using a chair and a desk to attack each other in a classroom has gone viral.
Almost a third of new voters in the upcoming election are not interested in politics and half of them admit they know very little about South African politics, according to
An expert will be appointed to inspect the M1 bridge over Carr Street in Johannesburg after a fire broke out inside a cavity on the southbound side of the bridge.
Former high school teacher Johnny Baartman was sentenced to 25 years in prison in the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha on Friday, after admitting to beating his ex-wife to
The parents of Loyola Gwadiso, 8, and Khanide, one, speak of their agony after their two youngest children were shot multiple times in an apparent gang war in Gugulethu. They
President Cyril Ramaphosa has instructed the human settlements and public works ministers to investigate housing activists’ demands for land to be redistributed to communities, says Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.
Matilda Gasela, the head of the Gauteng Department of Social Development, has left office under a cloud of corruption allegations dating back to her tenure as head of the Gauteng
The body of a woman has been recovered from the Knysna Lagoon after it was spotted by tourists holidaying in the coastal town.
The body of a Cape Town family’s teenage daughter was finally released to them on Thursday afternoon by the Forensic Pathologist Laboratory, more than a week after she was shot
Eastern Cape taxi operators have instructed the provincial government to increase the number of officials responsible for processing scholar transport programme invoices, warning of the risk of further economic collapse.
In Ace Magashule’s last days as Free State premier, one of his sons – and his corruption-accused PA’s cousin – were inexplicably given multimillion-rand Free State government bursaries to study
Thirty years ago, KwaDukuza was a beacon of hope and renewal. Kaveel Singh returned to his home town in March and was filled with a profound sense of loss when
Polling data suggests the ANC will get no more than 35% of the Western Cape vote, but the party’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is confident of victory in the province.
Cyril Ramaphosa says the ANC is sticking to its internal processes in moving to discipline former party president Jacob Zuma.
Promising rugby player Kudzwai Dube appeared in the Kariega Magistrate’s Court on Thursday on a charge of attempted murder.
The cause of Wednesday’s fire that nearly “melted” a highway in Johannesburg came to light only through a later shootout between alleged cable thieves and City of Johannesburg security guards.
The KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg lambasted the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Bongiwe Sithole-Moloi for “failing” to facilitate six municipal by-elections.
The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 warning for damaging interior winds resulting in localised problems for high-sided vehicles on prone routes over the eastern interior
The mother of one of the men arrested for the murder of a Kaizer Chiefs player admitted in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Thursday that her son was a “problem
A malnourished three-month-old crossbreed puppy has been given a new lease on life.
Ewa Walus, the daughter of convicted hitman Janusz Walus, says she regrets having aligned with right-wing groups to raise funds for her father’s court case.
Taxi operators wreaked havoc in East London on Thursday morning, threatening teachers and pupils and forcing schools to close due to non-payment for scholar transport.
Despite voter patterns showing that some people in KwaZulu-Natal vote along tribal lines, ANC Youth League president Collen Malatji says he is confident that the party will emerge victorious after
A Department of Home Affairs official is on trial after he allegedly sold passports to foreign nationals for up to R3 000 each.
Covid-19 scientist and Stellenbosch University researcher Professor Tulio de Oliveira has been recognised in the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health list.
The State called for the men charged with the murders of rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes and his friend, businessman Tebello “Tibz” Motsoane, to remain behind bars, pending the finalisation of