The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has approved more than 600,000 funding applications for the 2026 academic year out of nearly 900,000 submissions received nationwide.

Plans were afoot for slain Const Maselelo Montja to conclude lobola negotiations on December 6.

A grieving Mpumalanga father has been left with unanswered questions after his 16-year-old daughter took her life shortly after telling him that she had just been sexually assaulted.

A 44-year-old attorney from Mpumalanga, Jo-Anne Mantladi Mmela, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing R3.3m from the Road Accident Fund, including R1.4 million meant for a child's accident claim.

Messina Moremi is fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of a Johannesburg hospital. She was shot twice in the head while out with a friend to celebrate getting a job.

Wits University confirmed it has suspended a member of the student representative council (SRC) who has been accused of raping a fellow student.

In the days leading up to his killing, KwaZulu-Natal’s Mandeni ward 18 councillor Phendukani Mabhida had written a letter to the council alleging corruption, had received a threatening call and was told his days were numbered.

A 38-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murders of two Mamelodi women whose bodies were found on the side of the road and the attempted murder of a third victim.

Inclement weather has been blamed for the deaths of two pilots who flew from Mpumalanga in two separate aircraft and then crashed in KwaZulu-Natal.

The Gauteng department of education has urged matriculants to stay away from social media ahead of the National Senior Certificate examinations, which start on October 21.