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A Cape Town man, accused of the racial abuse and assault of a domestic worker, will know on 24 October whether he will pay damages of R100 000 in a case before the Equality Court....

Civil society must work with government departments to ensure criminals are successfully reintegrated into society, Judge Nathan Erasmus says....

The North West University's Potchefstroom campus is still rooted in apartheid ideas, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande says....

The engineer who designed the structure of the Tongaat Mall in KwaZulu-Natal will testify before the commission investigating the building's collapse, which left two people dead....

Efforts to put out a fire that broke out in the mountains between Swellendam and Barrydale in the Western Cape had to be scaled back because of poor weather....

It is clear from the outset that opposition parties had not meant to participate in good faith in Parliament's ad hoc committee on Nkandla, ANC Deputy Chief Whip Doris Dlakude says....

Former Blue Bulls rugby player Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana planned the murders of his four victims with an axe, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court has ruled....

The EFF is unconcerned by a report that about 100 of its Northern Cape members had defected back to the ANC....

Former Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois has filed papers in the Labour Court following her dismissal....

The water shortage "crisis" is under control for now, the parliamentary portfolio committee on water and sanitation has heard....

Academic and operational activities at all Tshwane University of Technology campuses will resume on Monday....

The Supreme Court of Appeal has decried prosecutors who delayed an appeal hearing in a rape case for 12 years....

Senior ANC MP Mathole Motshekga has reiterated that Public Protector Thuli Madonsela did not have the power to tell Parliament how to proceed....

The office of the public protector says it is not an enemy of the government....

A man convicted of murdering his former partner by stamping on her neck has been sentenced to 15 years in jail in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban....

Mass vaccination campaigns of 70% of dogs could control and possibly eliminate rabies, a Pretoria University professor says....

An inquest had been opened into the deaths of three pupils of Emma Primary School in Winterveldt, north of Pretoria....

Reactionary forces continue to take advantage of challenges in society, Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans' Association chair Kebby Maphatsoe says....

Five people have been killed in an accident in Beaufort West Western Cape Emergency Medical Services says....

Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson will have to inform Parliament's portfolio committee on energy on the nuclear deal with Russia....