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Gift of the Givers will provide food parcels for mineworkers in Limpopo....

A glider pilot made a desperate call for help as he lay next to his dead co-pilot in the wreckage of their glider over the weekend, but succumbed to his injuries before paramedics could reach him....

Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has admitted he did not attend to his tax affairs the way the law required....

President Jacob Zuma is more concerned about creating jobs for his friends than good governance, the DA says, while other organisations have welcomed new Cabinet appointments....

Only one of the eight ministers left out of President Jacob Zuma's new Cabinet has been assured an alternative senior post, while the rest will have to make do with being ordinary MPs for now....

KwaZulu-Natal premier-elect Senzo Mchunu is due to be inaugurated on Monday at Pietermaritzburg. ...

Hundreds of people have been left homeless and one person has died following separate shack fires in the Cape Peninsula this weekend....

The illegal harvesting of abalone in the marine protected area around Bird Island in Algoa Bay remains a problem in spite of a ban on diving in the area. ...

Western Cape Community Safety Minister Dan Plato has promised the community of Vrygrond increased police visibility....

President Jacob Zuma has announced his new "national executive", including his Cabinet ministers and their deputies in Pretoria....

A Limpopo woman has been arrested for allegedly hacking one of her 3-month-old twins to death with an axe, say police....

A woman from the Mbekwana village outside Tzaneen who allegedly killed her 20-month-old baby is expected to apply for bail next month, say Limpopo police....

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been served with legal papers that seek to prove that alternative medicine is safe....

One person has died and over 1000 people have been displaced following a number of shack fires across Cape Town, the city's disaster operations centre says....

Lawyers of President Jacob Zuma say the "spy tapes" should remain secret because they're a bit like a photograph that shows a supposedly dead person still alive and well in Paris....

Gift of the Givers has denied that it is distributing food selectively in the embattled platinum belt of the North West province....

Aspiring DA caucus leader Mmusi Maimane has defended party leader Helen Zille's intervention in the parliamentary caucus....

President Jacob Zuma has reconfigured his Cabinet, creating several new ministries....

Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille has said that her decision to continue in her role as Western Cape premier was the "least worst" decision she could make....

President Jacob Zuma has announced his new Cabinet, appointing the country's first black finance minister....