Headlines from News24 South Africa. News24x7 shows the headline and a short extract only — every link opens the full report on https://www.news24.com.
Publisher website: https://www.news24.com
Schools in Namakwa, the Northern Cape, will be closed on Monday following a Yellow Level 4 warning for disruptive rain issued by the South African Weather Service.
A cut-off low pressure system developing west of the country is expected to affect the Western Cape and Northern Cape from Sunday into Monday.
The Gauteng Department of Education addressed 458 disciplinary and bullying complaints at independent schools, as well as an additional 422 cases where institutions withheld pupils’ transfer certificates and report cards over outstanding fees.
Gauteng police have established a multidisciplinary task team to investigate possible links between the deaths of four women whose bodies were discovered in Kempton Park over two months.
The March and March movement has instructed lawyers to prepare court papers if the KwaZulu-Natal government failed to relocate hundreds of refugees who had been occupying parts of Che Guevara Road in Durban for months.
The two men accused of killing a Mossel Bay couple in the Kruger National Park will be tried in Mozambique after South Africa failed to file a formal extradition request.
When 17-year-old Abdul Mutalib left for Gauteng in July to study the Quran, his grandmother gave him a blanket. Three weeks ago, his body was returned to his home on the Cape Flats wrapped in that same blanket.
Under the Consumer Protection Act, a full refund must be granted for an advance booking if the consumer has been hospitalised or died. Sandra Magner, who had spinal cancer, was too ill to fly on her scheduled date, though she was only hospitalised afterwards. After her death, her husband had to…
The family of missing Kempton Park runner Elizabeth Mokolo Moselakgomo say they cannot confirm whether a body discovered on Saturday evening is hers, because the face is so badly battered.
Advocate Gerrit Coetzee has abandoned his plans to find a second bride – after being accused of sexual assault by a man who visited his farm with a 16-year-old girl.
An Australian man who thought he had found love with a South African nurse had his heart broken when a security specialist pointed out that she had six fingers in one of her videos – a telltale sign that she was AI-generated.
Police have intensified the search for 38-year-old Elizabeth Mokolo Moselakgomo, who disappeared after going for an afternoon run on Wednesday, leaving her eight-year-old daughter at home, who contacted family members when her mother failed to return that evening.
The EFF’s mayoral candidate, Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, vowed to stop selling municipal assets, auto-register the poor for free services and slash executive salaries as she unveiled her 100-day action plan to fix Johannesburg’s R3.8-billion water crisis on Saturday.
DStv is reshaping its package line-up from 17 September, bringing premium entertainment to cheaper tiers and launching a R399 Sports package – but Springbok rugby remains locked behind the R799 Premium tier.
The ANC has accused the DA of “political opportunism” over its bid to intervene in the ANC’s Electoral Court battle, as a dispute over candidate submissions threatens to keep the party off the ballot in six municipalities.
Joel Singer left Microsoft to build Origin Coffee Roasters in a De Waterkant tobacco warehouse, betting that Cape Town would embrace world-class, locally roasted coffee before anyone believed it could.
The Constitutional Court has issued a ruling confirming that the state may investigate traditional leaders and remove them for misconduct, but has stressed that customary laws cannot be sidelined in the process.
Guinness World Records unveiled its 2027 edition in London on Wednesday, packing more than 3 000 verified achievements into its signature compendium – with over 80% of the records updated for this year.
Anything you discuss with a large language model about a legal matter or dispute is discoverable, meaning it could help find you guilty.
A professional soccer player has denied his child access to an urgent medical procedure when he failed to meet his maintenance obligations, a mother has claimed.
The SA Weather Service has warned that large parts of the country are expected to experience colder temperatures, heavy downpours, damaging winds and rough seas from Sunday into Tuesday.
A 70-year-old woman who slept on the streets for weeks and was robbed after being removed from a Malmesbury shelter has had her eviction case dismissed in the Western Cape High Court.
Steve Biko was killed not for planting bombs but for trading in words and ideas. Forty-nine years on, with corruption and dysfunction corroding public institutions, Biko’s insistence that liberation begins in the mind – and that freedom demands ethical conduct – speaks to a country that has yet to…
As the ANC takes the electoral commission to court over its candidate-logging problems, the party’s former chief whip turned Water and Sanitation Minister, Pemmy Majodina, is facing flak for swearing at an Eastern Cape resident. This is the week thus far with News24’s premier video bulletin, Unread.
