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The National Department of Transport has confirmed that all toll gate tariffs will be increased as from Saturday. ...

Eastern Cape Premier, Phumulo Masualle has appointed six women to serve in his ten member cabinet. ...

Government has welcomed a recent report by the World Health Organisation which has highlighted the need for serious intervention to tackle alcohol abuse in South Africa....

State witness Paul Mthabela, in the Radovan Krejcir case, says he has never denied his role following the kidnapping of Bhekithemba Lukhele in June last year. ...

Traffic officers in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro have downed tools. ...

An East Rand shopping mall was in lockdown for the entire day on Friday after an attempted cash-in-transit heist....

The Marikana Commission of Inquiry resumed on Friday with the testimony of police Captain Wayne Kidd....

Students from Durban University of Technology's City Campus say they are being terrorized by a group of vagrants who are "Whoonga-users." ...

Gauteng police who had found more than 300 guns, ammunition and explosives at the house of a wanted man were unable to arrest him, though they did nab three others....

Two former police officers are expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court in connection with a video of a naked man being assaulted....

The South African government has condemned the coup in Thailand and has called for constitutional order, the department of international relations says....

Family members, colleagues and neighbours have expressed shock at the death of a popular KwaZulu-Natal teacher, who was shot by hijackers outside her complex....

A 14-year-old boy faces suspension from his school after it was found that he had allegedly sexually abused about seven girls at the Orange Farm school....

ANC bigwig Tito Mboweni has denied he was referring to Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande in Facebook comments this week....

A KwaZulu-Natal MEC has come under fire for spending about R4m on vehicles over the past four years, it has been reported....

South African Airways is planning a spectacular fly-over to add to the lustre of the upcoming South African Presidential Inauguration....

Three men accused of involvement in the murder of paediatrician Dr Louis Heyns have appeared in the Western Cape High Court....

Three children have died and 14 other people were injured when a sugar-cane truck and a minibus collided in Pongola in northern KwaZulu-Natal....

Internationally acclaimed artist and photographer Zwelethu Mthethwa is ready to stand trial for murder, the Western Cape High Court has heard....

Three men accused of killing a Saldanha woman with a panga have appeared in the Western Cape High Court, where their case was postponed....