The Gauteng Department of Education has condemned the circulation of a fake AI-generated image on social media, falsely claiming to depict the victims of the Vanderbijlpark scholar transport crash.
At least 166 people have reportedly been kidnapped from three churches in Kurmin Wali village, Kaduna State, during Sunday services, in what appears to be the latest in a string of mass abductions by armed gangs, locally known as “bandits.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved a salary increase for public office bearers, set to take effect on April 1, 2026.
Two people have been shot dead outside the Booysens Magistrate’s Court in Oakdene South, Johannesburg, on Tuesday.
Gauteng police have arrested the 22-year-old scholar transport driver involved in the crash that claimed the lives of 12 learners in Vanderbijlpark earlier this week.
Matric pupils at Sekgoari Secondary School in Ga-Modjadji village, Bolobedu, have voiced concern that their academic year was disrupted after heavy flooding delayed the reopening of schools in parts of Limpopo.
The Gauteng Department of Education says one of the learners who died in Monday’s tragic scholar transport crash in Vanderbijlpark has yet to be formally identified.
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development has called for an urgent investigation following the killing of one of its employees in Pietermaritzburg over the weekend.
Italian fashion icon Valentino Garavani, known simply as Valentino, has died at the age of 93, marking the end of an era for one of the most influential figures in 20th century fashion.
Authorities have confirmed that the death toll in the scholar transport crash involving a minibus and a truck in Vanderbijlpark on Monday stands at twelve, following widespread reports suggesting the figure had increased.
The trial of six men accused of murdering 18 people in Ngobozana village, near Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape, is expected to resume on Tuesday.
Six people have been shot dead in two separate incidents in Cape Town, with police launching investigations into both cases.
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Eight suspected kidnappers are expected to appear before the Lenasia Magistrate’s Court on Monday following the successful rescue of a man who was abducted in Gauteng earlier this month.
Europe is mobilising countermeasures in response to what officials are calling “blackmail” by US President Donald Trump, after he threatened tariffs against several countries opposing his interest in Greenland, Germany’s vice chancellor said Monday.
A 32-year-old woman was brutally assaulted and killed, allegedly by her boyfriend, in the Tea Estate area of Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday.
The case against Tebogo Mnisi, arrested in connection with the murder of two young women in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria, has been postponed to 19 March 2026 at the Mamelodi Magistrate’s Court.
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The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has found that the scholar transport system in the North West province violates the human rights of learners, particularly those from poor and rural communities and learners living with disabilities.
First National Bank (FNB) says it has paid out just over R1 billion to Ithala customers within 29 days of the disbursement process getting underway.
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Residents of Montclair were left traumatised after a deadly shootout between police and armed suspects unfolded just metres from a primary school on Friday afternoon.
Eleven schoolchildren have been killed in a tragic road accident in the Vaal on Monday morning.
At least 21 people have been killed after a high-speed train derailed and collided with another oncoming train in southern Spain, pushing the second train off the tracks and down an embankment, authorities have confirmed.
