Domestic

Non-governmental organisations have welcomed the news that former Social Development Minister, Bathabile Dlamini, has settled the cost order made against her personally by the Constitutional Court for her role in the social grants crisis almost three years ago.

Free State police have opened culpable homicide dockets after two farm workers were killed when a goods train collided with a bakkie on Thursday morning.

The National Department of Health has moved to calm fears saying South Africa was not yet in a third wave. The Department issued the statement hours after Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize sent an SOS to roleplayers, informing them that some parts of the country have technically entered into the next wave.

The Pietermaritzburg High Court has convicted and sentenced a 32-year-old man to nine life terms for a cash-in-transit heist in 2019 which left two police officers and seven accomplices dead.

The Ombudsman for Banking Services (OBS) annual report reveals that it opened 7 717 formal cases in 2020 – a new record. This is a 19% increase on the prior year, despite the Covid-19 lockdown.

Gauteng police arrested eight suspects and recovered three unlicensed rifles and a pistol, soon after a courier vehicle was robbed in Rustenburg on Wednesday.

Two former South African Revenue Service (SARS) auditors have been arrested for alleged tax evasion worth approximately R321 million.

"They are wives and mothers at home, at hospitals they are the military machine, the backbone of efficiency and healing." That's how Gift of the Givers founder, Dr Imtiaaz Sooiman, described South Africa's nurses on International Nurses Day on Wednesday.

The CEO of SANParks Fundisile Mketeni appeared in court on Tuesday after a charge of assault and sexual assault was laid against him last week.