As he inherits the reigns of Cape Town’s cutback-riddled healthcare mammoth – Groote Schuur Hospital – Dr Shaheem de Vries offers a dapper smile and a dose of optimism.

Thirteen officials in Master of the High Court offices in three provinces are on precautionary suspension amid a Special Investigating Unit probe into allegations of maladministration.

The Limpopo Department of Education has conceded that it missed its deadline for the replacement of all dangerous pit toilets in schools, citing budget cuts as the main impediment.

A prominent leader of the DA caucus in Johannesburg has found herself at the centre of a controversial billing disagreement with City Power, which she believes is politically motivated.

Angry security guards who have been protesting outside the offices of the Gauteng Department of Health following the termination of their month-to-month contracts, say they will continue the fight to get their jobs back.

The DA plans to put in place job seekers’ grants and do away with the R350 monthly social relief of distress grant if it is put in power – but it says the move will only be viable as long as there is economic growth and sufficient tax revenue to fund it.

A Cape Town woman’s successful court bid to have her husband involuntarily sent to a drug rehabilitation facility has been set aside in the Western Cape High Court because he did not have a lawyer to speak on his behalf.

One of the four defendants on trial for the gruesome murders of Dan Brand, his wife, Breggie, and their daughter Elzabie on 26 July 2020 on a smallholding outside Hartswater, claims he only washed dust from Elzabie’s stolen Mazda CX5, and not blood.

Scattered to isolated rain and thunderstorms are expected to hit most provinces across the country, according to the South African Weather Service.

Terrible feedback, echo on the line, and poor network connection marred the City of Johannesburg’s 20th ordinary council meeting which took place online on Thursday morning.

Two former border post officials have been sentenced to an effective 15 years in jail for turning a blind eye to an attempt to smuggle tobacco worth R6 million into South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended the employment of SA National Defence Force members deployed to combat acts of terrorism and violent extremism in various parts of Africa.

Chronic kidney disease is damage to the kidney that happens over a period of time – and affects its ability to filter waste products and get rid of fluid properly, Dr Nina Diana tells Spotlight.

Three officers were arrested on Monday, five months after they allegedly assaulted Juma Igiranieza to obtain information from him.

The Constitutional Court has given the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party until Thursday to file answering papers if it wants to oppose the Electoral Commission of SA’s (IEC) appeal against an Electoral Court decision.