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Police in Limpoo have launched a massive manhunt launched after a 12-year-old girl from Ha-Ramantsha village in Vhembe District was found brutally murdered in Ha-Ravele Village. The young girl had been selling vegetables in her neighbourhood on Sunday, but police said she failed to retu

For decades, Diddy and his myriad aliases loomed large in pop culture as an impeccably dressed rap magnate who reigned over lavish parties and media boardrooms with class and confidence. Tuesday threw his remarkable fall into stark relief: the artist born Sean Combs appeared on the 26th

A bogus home affairs employee was arrested in Secunda for allegedly colluding with two Ethiopian nationals in passport fraud and theft , the Mpumalanga Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as the Hawks) said. The arrest comes after a tip-off was received that Lindiwe Kubh

Three men who brutally murdered a University of Fort Hare (UFH) couple in Hogsback two years ago have received hefty sentences for their crimes. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the High Court of South Africa, sitting in Makhanda in the Eastern Cape, jailed Silindokuhle Man

The South African Air Force said there were no fatalities when an Alouette III helicopter was involved in a hard landing incident at the Air Force Mobile Deployment Wing, formerly Air Force Base Swartkop in Tshwane. The incident happened on Wednesday afternoon, according SA Air Force sp

Inter Milan boss Simone Inzaghi said the Italian champions produced a 'giant performance' to leave Manchester City frustrated in a 0-0 draw to begin their Champions League campaign on Wednesday. One of the selling points of the new expanded Champions League format was to bring together

After an eight-month downtrend, South Africas consumer food price inflation slightly edged up 4.1% in August in spite of headline consumer inflation slowing to 4.4% and giving assurances to the SA Reserve Bank to begin its rates-cutting cycle. Statistics South Africa said yesterday that

Disgraced US movie producer Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York. Weinstein, 72, who had emergency heart surgery just over a week ago, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom in a wheelchair to enter his plea to a single charge of committing a

STATISTICS SA announced yesterday that headline consumer inflation in South Africa fell to 4.4% year-on-year in August from 4.6% in July, with this being the third consecutive month of inflation falling. In month-on-month terms inflation was at 0.1% in August compared to 0.4% a month be