Intense heat and thundershowers are expected in most parts of the country, according to the South African Weather Service.

Three men accused of murdering an off-duty police officer while assisting his girlfriend with her broken down vehicle in Benrose, Johannesburg, have been arrested.

October is turning out to be a big month for enquiries into what happened to the money, with the ongoing Madlanga Commission into allegedly corrupt police tenders, the spat between Lucky Montana and SARS, and the Road Accident Fund hearing currently in Parliament.

One person has died and approximately 80 others have been displaced after a fire tore through an informal settlement in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, in the early hours of Monday morning.

A Presidential Protection Service officer who was wanted for the murder of a sergeant and attempted murder of his wife, has taken his own life, according to police.

A 26-year-old Law Enforcement Advancement Plan (Leap) officer has succumbed to his injuries while trying to get away from two suspects who had hijacked, stabbed and stoned him in Marikana informal settlement in Philippi on Sunday.

Young women are contracting HIV faster than anyone else in South Africa, with about four out of every 10 new infections coming from just this group, even though they make up only about 8% of the total population. Here’s how an AI chatbot is trying to change that.

Umyezo Drive residents in Luzuko Park, Philippi East, Cape Town, can finally breathe a sigh of relief after critical repairs were conducted to fix potholes, and clear blocked drains, which led to flooding in the area.

Passengers aboard LIFT’s Flight GE133 disembarked safely at Cape Town International Airport on Friday evening after the craft was forced to make an emergency landing.

Before the explosive press conference by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, the country’s top cop, General Fannie Masemola, did not know who exactly the high rollers of the criminal underworld were.

French law enforcement authorities are working with a Mthethwa family representative in the investigation into ambassador Nathi Mthethwa’s death in a Paris hotel.

Despite the country’s relative wealth, South Africa has shockingly high levels of childhood malnutrition and stunting. Here is a small team that has made it their business to bring solutions to the table and get nutritious meals to the children of farm workers in the Western Cape.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa was in all likelihood not aware of the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT).

Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town has one of the busiest emergency centres in the Western Cape. As it turns to the public to raise R20 million for the opening of a new emergency centre, Dr Deidre McPherson chats to Spotlight about the hospital’s trauma frontline.

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Two young siblings from Johannesburg are proving that talent and determination can run in the family.

Everything is united – except it’s not! In this podcast, Mark Barnes and Tim Cohen discuss the prospects of Unite for Change, comprising GOOD, Rise Mzansi and Build One SA, and wonder why they are uniting rather than being united.

An 11-year-old child was killed and two others injured when a police van crashed into a shack in Delft, Cape Town, on Saturday, 4 October.

The DA’s mayoral candidate for Nelson Mandela Bay, Retief Odendaal, walked to the podium in a hall in Gqeberha’s Algoa Park on Monday morning to launch his campaign as an Afrikaans pop rock tune bellowed: Ruk reg! Ruk reg met Retief! (Fix it! Fix it with Retief!).

The day before any exciting matric ball is always filled with last-minute rushing around as families and the pupil of the moment scramble to get all last-minute preparations done for the big day, but for Mitchells Plain teenager Rudolph Lekay he was up again at 05:00 to sell his sweets.