It has been almost four weeks since an 11-year-old girl was kidnapped in front of the E.P. Baumann Primary School in Mayfair in Johannesburg.

In the latest news in South Africa on Tuesday 7 December 2021, three matrics were killed in an accident en route an end-of-exams holiday.

A man accused of shoplifting was handcuffed and driven to a secluded area where a police officer allegedly raped him before he was taken home.

Paramedics said a man who was fatally shot in the head and back was found in a pool of blood in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Police said neighbours complained of a bad odour after the mother and the son were both last seen on Thursday. They were found dead on Sunday.

Police said a 51-year-old man had been arrested after he was found in possession of drugs worth R5 million in Mossel Bay, in the Western Cape.

A farmer watched in fear as farm attackers tried to push his six-year-old son in the oven during a brutal farm attack in Mpumalanga.

Police said the couple is charged with murder after the death of their four-month-old baby, who died of complications of malnutrition.

Police said the man who was kidnapped outside his father’s hardware franchise in Benoni earlier this month was rescued on Tuesday.

A manhunt was launched after a cash-in-transit heist N4/N12 on Saturday. Two police officers and security officers were shot and injured.

Police said two men who were kidnapped in Johannesburg on 15 October 2021 were rescued in Heidelberg, where they were held captive.

Police are investigating the cause of a house fire that killed three people, including a child, on Sunday morning.

Police said the man, who is her grandfather, was convicted of the murder of Sandisiwe Mona (17) from Kwanokuthula near Plettenberg Bay.

Police said a 30-year-old man was arrested after allegedly beating his girlfriend to death with a pipe at their house in Gqeberha.

Police said a 55-year-old caregiver had been sentenced to life in prison for raping a 21-year-old mentally challenged man.

A man was injured when he was attacked at his house with a hammer during a home invasion in KwaZulu-Natal.

A mother survived after attackers tied her up, stuffed a bar of soap down her throat, and left her for dead in KwaZulu-Natal.

Paramedics treated two people who were injured during an armed robbery at a Bluff post office on Wednesday.

A prayer session is planned for Len Cloete, who was shot in the head by a police officer during an altercation at a Muldersdrift lodge.

Police said the SA TikTok user Henrico Barnard has not been arrested yet because he is currently in hospital.

The wife of Len Cloete, who was shot by police at a Muldersdrift lodge, has answered some questions we all had about the video.

The 63-year-old grandfather was found guilty of raping his granddaughter after he was caught alone in a room with the teenager.

Staff members were attacked and one assaulted during an armed robbery at the Sandton SPCA on Tuesday morning.

Residents in Cape Town’s Mfuleni have been left astounded after a man attacked his neighbours with a panga to kill a man and injure his wife.

A Durban civil rights activist has urged the SA Human Rights Commission not to demonise Phoenix residents during its commission of enquiry.