Domestic

Eight people were killed in a head-on collision between a taxi and a LDV on the N1 outside Musina in Limpopo on Saturday morning.

The Democratic Alliance's two-day federal congress got underway in Midrand on Saturday - the biggest in the party's history.

The South African Municipal Workers Union says all municipal workers across the country will receive a 5.4% pay adjustment from 1 July.

Paralympian Oscar Pistorius has been denied parole following a hearing on Friday. The Department of Correctional Services said he had not served the minimum detention period that would make him eligible for parole.

The Automobile Association said motorists could expect to see significant decreases in the price of diesel and illuminating paraffin going into April.

The High Court sitting in Makhanda on Thursday sentenced 55-year-old Johan Apools to 23 years direct imprisonment after he raped a six-year-old girl on 28 September 2022. Apools audaciously raped the little girl in his car in bushes behind the Somerset East clinic and was spotted by a passer-by who reported the incident to police.

South Africans will be facing further headwinds after the South African Reserve Bank hiked interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday.

Limpopo police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 13-year-old girl and the murder of the man in whose house her decomposed body was found.

Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester, who escaped from prison on 3 May 2022, has been running a scam construction company called “Arum Properties” with celebrity doctor Nandipha Magudumana. The couple convinced several people to pay millions of rands for construction projects, but never delivered the goods. Clients of Arum Properties told GroundUp that soon after signing on and paying their deposits, they started to realise that something was wrong.