Gauteng, South Africa News

Two Gauteng men are in a stable condition after they were rescued from the surf off Kids Beach near Margate by Ubuntu Lifeguards and National Sea Rescue Institute personnel this afternoon.

Tshwane - While waiting in one of those interminable queues at a South African state hospital, Jullian Nwadu was asked when she was going back to Zimbabwe.

Soweto police have arrested four people for a robbery at the Hyde Park shopping centre this morning.

Three men were arrested in Johannesburg for allegedly stealing a truck and trailer carrying a cargo of nappies, the city's metro police said.

After initially asking for three annual electricity price increases of 45%, on 1 December Eskom reduced this request to 35% a year for three years.

The Green Scorpions uncovered another 20 tons of medical waste, buried at an unused gold mine of Harmony Gold outside Welkom, a spokesman said.

Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is branded one of the world's "diabolical masterminds of sexual terror" in a report to be released Thursday on rapes of Zimbabwe's opposition supporters.

A taxi operator from the Witwatersrand African Taxi Owners' Association was shot dead in Dube, Soweto, the Johannesburg city officials said on Wednesday.

A new wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa is gathering intensity, after six Zimbabwean nationals were severely injured in a vicious attack by a mob of local residents in Polokwane, South Africa.

The Department of Correctional Services said on Wednesday that six prison warders linked to the escape of convict Ananias Mathe from the maximum security C-Max prison in Pretoria had been dismissed in September.

Four people died and 62 others were injured when their bus overturned on Moloto road in Kameelsdrift outside Pretoria on Wednesday morning, paramedics said.

South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup.

Three men were arrested after a robbery on the R24 highway near the OR Tambo International Airport, in Kempton Park, police said on Tuesday.

A man passes a fence outside an office building on World AIDS Day in Johannesburg Tuesday, Dec.

Johannesburg - Civil society organisations described Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church, where thousands of Zimbabweans have taken shelter, as unsustainable.

A MAN who spent nearly $700,000 visiting every country in the world as quickly as possible has returned with underwhelming snaps of his travels.

A Catholic priest was shot dead in a presbytery in Diesploot, north of Johannesburg, the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference said on Monday.

National police commissioner Bheki Cele has again told members of the South African Police Service to "use deadly force" against criminals.

Union criticises casting of Morgan Freeman and Jennifer Hudson as Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife in separate films Winnie Mandela and Jennifer Hudson.

Two men were shot and wounded after allegedly holding up a business in Kempton Park on Monday afternoon, Johannesburg paramedics said.