A police operation in Stilfontein will continue, despite initial reports that there are "no longer any illegal miners underground" at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine Shaft 11.

A campus crisis is looming after a record 337 158 matrics achieved admission to Bachelor studies with only 202 000 first-year places available across all 26 public universities.

The North West government has brought in pathology vehicles from Gauteng, including a truck capable of carrying 36 bodies, to the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein because of the large number of dead zama zamas being brought to the surface.

In what may be some of the most contested testimony in Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge's sexual harassment inquiry, High Court secretary Andiswa Mengo said he sent her WhatsApp images of his "private part" – as well as a pornographic video.

The Land Reform and Rural Development committee wants to meet with AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini but according to a long-held, unspoken traditional practice, it's unprecedented for a Zulu king to account to Parliament.

Milites Dei Security Services - the company operating the suspected military training camp in Mpumalanga where 95 Libyan nationals were arrested last year - wants its registration with the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority reinstated.

As of 13:30 on Wednesday, the number of deceased suspected illegal miners extracted from the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine Shaft 11 in Stilfontein since Monday had increased to 78, while 166 zama zamas were found alive.

In an affirmation of its charm and appeal, Cape Town has been named Time Out's Best City in the World for 2025.

The virtual currency account belonging to a Syrian organisation to which a Sandton man donated R11 500 was forfeited to the US government in 2021 after it was investigated for financing "al-Qaeda and affiliated foreign terror organisations" through the use of cryptocurrencies.

Police are searching for two men who robbed an e-hailing driver in a terrifying incident that was caught on camera in the Johannesburg CDB.

The South African Weather Service has issued a Yellow Level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms with heavy rainfall and excessive lightning, leading to flooding in Gauteng, North West, Free State, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

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An elderly woman, who, with her husband, fought off a robber who tried to steal her handbag in Plettenberg Bay, has been hospitalised after her arm was broken.

The Eastern Cape government's scholar transport programme got off to a smooth start on Wednesday. Still, concerns have been raised over some operators refusing vehicle inspections for the multimillion-rand contract.

ActionSA announced on Wednesday that it would join forces with little-known party Forum 4 Service Delivery to contest the 2026 local government elections under the ActionSA banner.

Two volunteers are at the forefront of a government-sanctioned rescue mission to retrieve illegal miners from Shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein.

The father of slain Constable Callan Andrews said a "kangaroo court" is needed for the two accused linked to his son's murder.

Western Cape police have arrested a truck driver in connection with a freak accident in Tulbagh in which crates of plums struck four people, including a 9-month-old baby, killing them.

In an attempt to seek urgent initiation reforms in the Eastern Cape, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Velenkosini Hlabisa has asked two government commissions to investigate the deaths of 28 initiates during the province's summer initiation season.

The 39-year-old, an office manager at the Eastern Cape Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in the Chris Hani district, is alleged to have misused the department’s fuel card between April 2022 and August 2022.