Lockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were "astonishing", according to a new analysis.

A principal who doubled his school's matric pass rate by organising extra classes was furious when some pupils did not attend.

"Nothing destroys like fire. That beautiful building, it's all gone," said a shocked senior ANC MP on Friday after engineers presented their initial assessment of damage caused by the fire at parliament.

The appeal court has given the go-ahead for 138 men to sue the government for R500,000 each over alleged assaults at St Albans prison in Gqeberha.

A SA TV news producer and her four crew have been evacuated from Ukraine after two of them were shot by a suspected Russian "death squad".

A teacher who was given a final written warning for singing in a church choir has had it expunged after appealing.

An acting principal who shared a kickback on a textbook order with a school governor has failed to overturn his dismissal by the Free State education department.

A seven-day send-off is being organised for the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in Cape Town.

A life-size poster of two SA icons of peace, former president Nelson Mandela and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu graced the hall of the Cape Town civic centre on Sunday for a media briefing following Tutu's death on Sunday morning.

Narwhals, the "unicorns of the sea" that live in the Arctic, have transmitted a 12,000km distress signal to the sea creatures in the path of a seismic survey off the Wild Coast of SA.