A 12-year-old girl has been found after she went missing two weeks ago in Mpumalanga, police said.

“I caused the accident when I lost control of my vehicle, and the family lost their loved one… Please understand and believe me that I had no reason or intention to harm you or anyone.”

Elderly residents at a retirement centre on the beachfront have become prisoners in their own homes.

An agreement that saw cleaners forgive their tormenters after the infamous racist Reitz video five years ago, was left hanging by a thread.

A grey cloud hung over a scrapyard after the killing of a manager, whom staff fondly called "Mkhulu", outside the premises.

One of the victims of an alleged paedophile ring that operated at a circus school in the 1970s is probing the possibility of laying charges.

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“The police’s organised crime unit has narrowed down possible suspects. We are feeling positive because the evidence is very good.”

The FNB stadium heist was so audacious that an ex-bank robber said he couldn't imagine planning anything like it.

Mjabulo Nyawo, 27, was sentenced for raping a three and a nine-year-old, KwaZulu-Natal police said.

There was promised action when he told how he was allegedly assaulted and bundled into the back of a metro police van.

Sex workers in Durban welcomed the call by the Commission for Gender Equality for the decriminalisation of sex work.

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KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested six people for murder and rape in Inanda.

A South African woman was reportedly caught by customs officials at Mumbai Airport carrying 26 kilogrammes of drugs, according to a report.

The case against a man allegedly linked to the murder of the sangoma responsible for the rituals performed on Marikana mineworkers has been postponed.

A Mpumalanga man was sentenced to a fine of R20 000 (or six years' imprisonment) for killing a man in self-defence.

Two men were killed in separate incidents in Steenberg, Cape Town.

A teacher who allegedly kidnapped, drugged, and raped a schoolgirl has been found guilty of gross misconduct in a disciplinary hearing.

The case against a Limpopo sangoma who defied a court order restraining him from seeing his 13-year-old wife has been postponed.

Seven Tsantsabane Community Trust board members appeared in the Postmasburg Magistrate's Court on charges of fraud.

Another arrest has been made in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Cape Town schoolboy Enrico Martin.