Domestic

A child pornographer who was part of an international child pornography ring was sentenced to an effective eight years in prison. Jan Hendrick le Roux, 66 was sentenced in the Wynberg Regional Court in the Western Cape on Wednesday.

Two Zimbabwean nationals are in custody following their arrest in the Northern Cape on charges of trafficking in persons.

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane is on Friday expected to join Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu on an oversight visit at the Makana local municipality. This, in an effort to stabilise the state of water provision in the area.

South Africa's economy contracted 0.2 percent in the third quarter following six months of slow growth.

Police have seized cocaine worth an estimated R151 million from a container in the port of Durban.

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai is currently in South Africa to deliver the 21st Nelson Mandela Lecture. The Nelson Mandela Foundation says her remarks will centre on the Taliban's systemic oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan and raise the visibility of a growing effort to expand the definition of apartheid to include gender-based oppression.

Laptops and voice recorders stolen during break-in at offices of state prosecutors in the Free State.

A 40-year-old man who was out on parole on a rape charge was handed a double life sentence for raping three women in separate incidents in 2017 and 2019.