South Africa News

Latest South African News

Campus Square shooting: It was quite dramatic – witness

Shots fired at suspected car thieves just outside Campus Square shopping centre on Saturday morning were so loud that a witness thought a robbery...
UKZN-university

R30m in damages caused by drunken UKZN students rampage

Thirty million rand, that’s the estimate of damages caused by University of KwaZulu-Natal students, many of whom were inebriated at the time, according to...
crime-scene-bullet-hole

Hijacker shot in Johannesburg police chase

A suspected car thief was shot as police chased after a vehicle to Campus Square shopping centre on Saturday morning. He was one of the...
357-magnum-gun

Robber shot after attacking police with a knife in Langa

A suspected smash-and-grabber was shot and wounded in Langa, according to Cape Town Metro Police deputy chief Yolande Faro. She said the 19-year-old was caught...

Woman accused of burning schoolgirl to death gets bail

Brits - A woman admitted to hospital after she allegedly burnt a school girl to death in Letlhabile near Brits has been discharged, North...

300 suspected illegal immigrants arrested in Johannesburg

At least 300 suspected illegal immigrants have been taken into custody in Johannesburg following an operation in the CBD on Friday, Johannesburg metro police...
Stellenbosch University

‘There is an Oranje to accommodate all Afrikaner racists’ – Sasco

Cape Town - Stellenbosch University is a “mini-apartheid island” in urgent need of change, South African Students' Congress (Sasco), national executive committee member Luntu...

Union members blamed for Ceres factory blaze

Cape Town - Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG) says members of the Food and Allied Workers Union (Fawu) are behind the blaze which left its...

Female genitals found in Bloemfontein man’s fridge

Johannesburg – Free State police have arrested a Danish national after pieces of female genitalia were found in the fridge of his Bloemfontein home,...

Schools must offer African language from Grade 1

Pretoria - From next year schools will offer an African language from Grade 1, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Friday. "This means that...

Cape Town cop shot while chasing hijacked car

A policeman was shot while chasing a hijacked BMW in Philippi, Western Cape police said on Friday. The 31-year-old officer was shot around 22:00 on...

Anika’s mom still hoping for answers

Anika Smit's mother has said that, although the inquest into the gruesome death of her daughter has reopened old wounds for her, she hopes...