A 38-year-old shop owner who raped a 10-year-old girl, who bought items at his shop in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Tensions ran high during a debate at the Western Cape legislature on Thursday. MPLs voiced their frustrations over failures by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to provide adequate services to the province’s social grant recipients.

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Pensioners wrapped in blankets sit on the cold pavement outside Eskom’s Louis Trichardt offices. They have come to upgrade their electricity meters before the 24 November deadline.

The family of a Grade 9 Limpopo pupil say he has endured years of bullying.

A 50-year-old Pretoria man has been sentenced to three life terms for the rape of his 11-year-old stepdaughter.

A man has been shot dead and his friend, a female police constable, wounded in Embalenhle, Mpumalanga.

It was a frail-looking Dr Elliot Shevel who stood stooped in the dock of the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, charged with murder following the death of a patient hours after receiving treatment at his world-famous Headache Clinic.

Three civil society organisations dispute Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s assertion that Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi can’t withdraw the controversial SABC Bill.

The now former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby should have taken additional steps to ensure that a church leader who left the UK suddenly could not continue his abuse in South Africa, a report suggests.

A high school principal in Tsomo, Eastern Cape, is in police custody following his arrest for the alleged rape of a 13-year-old girl.

The newly elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, Babalwa Lobishe, ordered the closure of eight immigrant-owned shops on Monday afternoon.

The City of Cape Town has given the green light for the release of a prime piece of land in Green Point for mixed-use development, including affordable housing.

A KwaZulu-Natal man who allegedly murdered a Road Traffic Inspectorate superintendent on the N2 near Groutville last week after robbing a taxi driver and commuters appeared in the KwaDukuza Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.

With the deadline on vital electricity-meter software updates looming, social media and misinformation has caused widespread confusion.

It was out of fear for his mental health and to avoid the perpetuation of an ongoing wrong that a judge ordered that one of the five men charged with the murder of soccer star Senzo Meyiwa be removed from solitary confinement.

Gang violence on the Cape Flats is rising, with children being recruited as young as 6 years old.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has raised the alarm over climate change, reporting 2024 is the world’s hottest year yet.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers say former spy boss Arthur Fraser’s claims about the Phala Phala break-in are like something from a movie – but are founded on nothing more than baseless speculation.

Gauteng legislature secretary Linda Mwale has signed a sweetheart agreement with Nehawu to let 32 employees accused of defrauding the institution off the hook.

The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies has asked the Equality Court in Cape Town to declare Mehmet Veja Dag’s social media posts about about Jewish people hate speech.