The lawyer accused of buying a 13-year-old girl from her mother and raping her repeatedly will not be able to secure the services of the senior counsel he wanted to defend him.

Eastern Cape police are on the hunt for gunmen who killed three people and left one other seriously injured in the Elephant Park informal settlement in Wells Estate in Gqeberha on Wednesday.

While the official details surrounding the reconfiguration of the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committees remain sketchy, the two provinces have accepted their fate.

Four months after corruption-accused and disbarred advocate Seth Nthai’s trial finally got under way, it is back to square one after the presiding judge recused himself.

Another top government school in the Eastern Cape has lodged allegations of pupil poaching against Kingswood College in Makhanda – joining at least two other schools in the province that made similar allegations against the private school over a week ago.

Most residents were unimpressed with Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality’s operation to impound confined or roaming pigs in Qonce villages.

The Gauteng Liquor Board has suspended the liquor licence of the controversial Pretoria nightclub, Zanzou, citing concerns over public safety.

A patient died after lighting a cigarette close to an oxygen mask he was wearing, causing a fire at the Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Umlazi, Durban, on Tuesday.

It was a slow and frustrating morning for Judge Robert Henney as delays and repeated testimony marked another day in the trial of alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack and his 14 co-accused.

Orange Level 5 disruptive rain leading to flooding will persist in parts of Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Free State, North West and Mpumalanga, according to the South African Weather Service.

Parents have called for the temporary closure of a school in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal after 89 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease were reported there.

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has slammed Sakeliga, a former affiliate of AfriForum, for cherry-picking the parts of the Constitution it wants to uphold but ignoring inequality in the agriculture sector.

The Western Cape High Court has heard arguments from the executive and political parties in My Vote Counts’ challenge of the constitutionality of the Political Party Funding Act.

In last year’s history exam, some matric candidates failed to explain why American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech was historically significant.

EFF president Julius Malema told white farmers over the weekend that there is no nicer place in the world than South Africa – where black people and white people can co-exist without problems.

A community association in Blairgowrie decided enough was enough and painted their suburb’s pavements last year. Now the City of Johannesburg is letting them clean up the community pool and fence off the park in time for Spring 2025 – a first for the City.

??Three KwaZulu-Natal men were arrested after they were spotted transporting a dead body in a wheelbarrow, according to police.

Concerned community leaders have warned that continued criminal activity on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, could dismantle its invaluable educational and economic initiatives, leaving a devastating impact on this cherished coastal area.

It’s been three weeks since the explosive murder trial of Gqeberha mother, Vicki Terblanche, got under way in the Eastern Cape High Court, and at the end of week three on Friday, the State says it’s gearing up for another week of important witnesses, damning evidence, and mind-blowing reveals.

There is no point in engaging with the country’s religious communities’ watchdog about its “superficial” and “grossly biased” report on KwaSizabantu as long as it stands by it, former members of the mission say.

“Millions of hectares” of rural land are still registered to apartheid entities, such as Bantustan homelands, the native affairs ministry, and “prime minister HF Verwoerd”.