News24 South Africa

It was a case of water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Yet the town of Beaufort West came together to help those who were left parched after the rain, write Justine Lebaka and Jan Gerber .

Wendy Dlamini described how she hid under a pool table, praying for her life, when eight gunmen stormed Dora’s Tavern, killing 18 people.

Infrastructure projects in Ekurhuleni metro worth more than half a billion rands are gathering dust, mostly because of the City’s inability to connect these to municipal services, according to the DA.

Three suspected cash-in-transit robbers were killed and another was arrested following a shootout with police on the R80 Mabopane Highway, north of Pretoria, on Monday.

A man suspected of murdering his 23-year-old estranged wife in Tembisa has been found dead inside his vehicle in Midrand, Gauteng police said on Monday.

A 26-year-old primary school teacher who said she had always considered teaching a calling was named Gauteng’s top candidate at the National Teaching Awards in Edenvale, Johannesburg, on Monday.

Almost a third of the national total of medical negligence claims are levelled against the Eastern Cape Department of Health, with 4 583 “verified” negligence cases on the department’s “eLiability register” by mid-2026.

Tuesday will be cold for most parts of the country, except for the Cape regions, where it will be fine and warm. The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for severe thunderstorms with strong winds and hail which may result in flooding in five provinces.

News24 brings you the top stories of the day, summarised into neat little packages. Read through quickly or listen to the articles via our customised text-to-speech feature.

A dehorned rhino cow and her two-year-old calf have been slaughtered at the Kariega Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape in a brazen poaching attack during World Rhino Month.

Debt write-offs, payment holidays and free Wi-Fi are among the key manifesto promises of the Patriotic Alliance, but the anti-foreigner rhetoric of its leader, Gayton McKenzie, remains firmly in the mix.

Parliament’s Phala Phala impeachment committee has filed court papers stating that the EFF acted prematurely in filing an urgent application to overturn the decision to rescind the nomination of advocate Griffiths Madonsela, SC, as evidence leader.

The Hawks’ investigation into the murder of Gqeberha prosecutor Tracy Brown has led to the arrest of a Pretoria police officer and exposed a sprawling criminal conspiracy. The alleged conspiracy stretches from Brown’s Young Park home to the St Albans prison and an alleged kidnapping-for-ransom syndicate.

It will cost the South African government an estimated R830 million to renovate its foreign missions and fixed assets, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation has revealed.

A beauty school received R144 million from the Gauteng Department of Social Development (GDSD) to train young beauticians and provide beauty services for older people. It was one of the department’s highest-funded organisations, far exceeding the average subsidies for social welfare services for Gauteng’s most vulnerable people, reports GroundUp.

A man living near Dora’s Tavern in Wedela, Carletonville, has described how armed men used his house three times to reload their rifles before returning to the tavern and opening fire on patrons, killing 18 people and injuring 18 others.

For years, he roamed the corridors of the National Prosecuting Authority offices in Durban as a security guard. Today, he is charged with 15 counts of rape.

It took just five days for September to become the deadliest month for mass shootings in South Africa this year.

Taxi boss Oupa Bafana “King of the Sky” Sindane’s application to prevent the Madlanga Commission from hearing his evidence has been struck from the court roll.

The Zululand District Municipality has confirmed that all employees have been paid their September salaries, days after their scheduled payday.