Domestic

Mpumalanga man is jailed for life for setting ex-girlfriend alight in a gruesome attack in 2021.

There'll be more pain at the pumps for motorists from midnight on Wednesday as fuel prices are in for another increase. It’s a back-to-back increase after the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy in February announced that the price of all grades of petrol would increase by 75 cents a litre, while diesel rose by 70 and 73 cents per litre.

Former Bok coach turned politician Peter de Villiers will have to give oral evidence this week for a hearing set out by the Good Party.

The relationship between South Africa’s major publishers and Google has turned hostile and may trigger an aggressive face-off between the parties as the Competition Commission’s Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI) gains momentum.

The search for missing six-year-old Joslin Smint is intensifying in Saldanha with an identified area in Diazville that was subdivided into zones as part of the coordination of the search.

A group of divers onboard a local dive charter boat on the Atlantic Seabord in Cape Town requested emergency assistance on Saturday after a seal bit several divers. Spokesperson for the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Craig Lambinon says paramedics and Health officials assisted in the distress call from Oudekraal.

Police in Giyani, North East of Limpopo are searching for an unidentified suspect following the rape of an 11-year-old girl whose ordeal was filmed on a cellphone camera. Police spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba says on the 25th of February, the child was attending a church service with her grandmother but left earlier to go home.

The Auditor General’s office on Wednesday told Members of Parliament that it has been months since it first flagged problems with the police headquarters in Pretoria. The building at Telkom Towers used as the South African Police Service (SAPS) headquarters had to be evacuated and was declared unfit for human use.

Police in the Free State have launched a manhunt for six suspects who robbed an elderly couple on their farm in the Frankfort district. Spokesperson Captain Loraine Earle says in the early hours of Friday morning, the unknown men entered the couple's bedroom where they overpowered the 78-year-old woman, and her 74-year-old husband.