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At Humansdorp Secondary School, the murder of student Liyolo Wakeni, 18, has caused ongoing fear and grief among students, with gangsterism and violence encroaching on school grounds.

The Herald won two regional awards at the 2025 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards in the Eastern Cape.

When eight-year-old Aphile Dlamini woke up from a coma on Saturday, she would have learnt that her twin brother, Aphelele, had died when they fell down a lift shaft at their block of flats last month.

South Africa’s high-end property market is surging with homes priced at R50m and even beyond R100m becoming increasingly common, particularly in Cape Town’s most sought-after neighbourhoods.

Errol Musk, the father of the tech billionaire Elon Musk, has made controversial claims, saying black people were never oppressed under apartheid in South Africa. Instead, he said they were “fed and given work”.

Despatch police ask community for assistance to find the next of kin of a pedestrian that was involved in a fatal car accident while allegedly crossing the road.

SA’s efforts to send a five-man police team to investigate the death of the ambassador were rebuffed

“We are finished with your dog [Thandolwethu], but we want our R30,000. We would have dropped it off at your doorstep...The other one [her younger brother] is next.”

The labour court has ruled that the police service was wrong not to dismiss an officer who kidnapped, assaulted and shot a man in the leg who was suspected of stealing a car battery from a police station.

Makate's Vodacom payout is contested by UK investor over a disputed contract

When Lutho Tauzeni, better known as Excess SA, first started rapping with his friends at a spaza shop in Qonce, it was just something fun to do after school, but it later become his expressive outlet.

Stirling Primary School computer science and information and communications technology (ICT) teacher Wesley Renton has returned from China with fresh ideas on using AI tools to strengthen classroom practice.

Alarmed by the number of teenage pregnancies, bumb’INGOMSO and other concerned stakeholders have launched a series of awareness activities in the Buffalo City metro, focusing on Nompumelelo informal settlement and Ducats.

Almost 900 Eastern Cape grade R teachers will soon have permanent government jobs, pending adoption of the new budget later in November.

The Automobile Manufacturers Employers Organisation and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa have signed a three-year wage agreement after nine rounds of negotiations and a declared deadlock at the National Bargaining Forum.