Domestic

A Grade 7 learner from Echibini Junior Secondary School in Soshanguve in Gauteng was raped and strangled to death in her home on Sunday.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has issued a warning to South African nationals joining the war in Gaza. In a statement issued on Monday, DIRCO says they are alarmed by reports that SA citizens have joined or are considering joining the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and in some cases the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Tens of thousands of foreign executives, engineers and other key workers have endured a year-long wait for South African visas that business groups say is costing investment and threatening the country's position as a continental hub.

North West police have established a task team to hunt down the killers who gunned down nine people in the Popo Molefe informal settlement outside Rustenburg.

South African Gerco Van Deventer held hostage by AL Qaeda for the past six years has been released.

A 42-year-old man, who’s believed to mentally challenged, is expected appear in court on Monday after he allegedly killed his 55-year-old cousin and a 99-year-old neighbour in two separate incidents. Eastern Cape police say both victims were on Thursday allegedly beaten to death by the man at Ndlambe village outside Peddie.

Buffalo City Metro sea rescue teams have rescued one person and said on Sunday morning that the search was still on for another person who was missing in the water at Eastern Beach. BCM spokesperson Samkelo Ngwenya said there was also a mass rescue of five people on Saturday at the same beach.

Former president Jacob Zuma on Saturday drove a new split in the ruling African National Congress, calling for a boycott of the party in a landmark 2024 election.

The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has petitioned President Cyril Ramaphosa not to sign the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill of 2019 into law, but rather to refer it back to the National Assembly for reconsideration. It says under Section 79 of the Constitution, President Ramaphosa cannot give his assent to a bill if he ‘has reservations about its constitutionality’.