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A convicted serial rapist that terrorised Mabopane and Winterveld areas, north of Pretoria between 2016 and 2018 will know his sentence next month as the prosecution team pushes for a harsher sentence.

eThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda said there are concerns about the rise in crime in the metro which accounts for nearly half of the criminal incidents in the province.

The Hawks says the cases against 74 suspects accused of illegally diverting SA Social Security Agency grants from beneficiaries’ bank accounts were being heard before various courts around the country.

Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday.

Nontobeko Chonco is in her pyjamas standing inside her rented room in Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State, staring at her electricity meter in despair as it shows she is left with nine units.

Police minister Bheki Cele has promised to deal with crime in Diepsloot by bringing in 16 patrolling vehicles and deploying detectives to investigate 11 unsolved murders from last year.

The weekend's killings of two people and police's alleged refusal to attend to one scene, citing danger, appears to be what sparked the shutdown in Diepsloot.

Leukaemia remains the most common cancer among children with those younger than five years at the greatest risk of this blood disorder – the South African National Cancer Registry has revealed.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the Covid-19 pandemic presents a risk of pregnant women contracting severe influenza.

The case against EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is expected to continue at the Randburg magistrate's court on Thursday.

Police in Limpopo have apprehended three suspects who were captured on video brutally killing a 35-year-old man at Marapong Township in Lephalale on Saturday.

The department of correctional services on Wednesday said it was opening prison gates to visitors once again.