When a mother returned home after 5pm on Wednesday, her five-year-old son was not at their house. Two hours later he ran in screaming, gesturing that a man had slit the throats of his friends.

The government is set to meet the Libyan ambassador to South Africa this week as part of escalating diplomatic pressure to get two Marumo Gallants club officials effectively held hostage in Benghazi for two weeks released.

Gauteng education MEC Matome Chiloane will visit Dinokeng Secondary School in Sebokeng on Monday after two stabbing incidents left one pupil dead and the other fighting for his life in hospital.

The ANC in Gauteng has expressed outrage at the vandalism of the Chris Hani monument in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni.

Ekurhuleni serial rapist Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, 38, has been found guilty of 148 charges of rape including sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft and possession of an unlicensed firearm.

Judgment in the trial of Ekurhuleni serial rapist Nkosinathi Phakathi, 32, is expected next week after his guilty plea statement was read to the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court on Wednesday.

Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, 32, is facing 148 charges, including rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft and possession of an unlicensed firearm.

Two street vendors who died in a shooting that claimed the lives of seven people in Finetown, south of Johannesburg, were siblings who sold kotas and chicken feet for a living.

The family of missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo have confirmed that the mutilated body of a child found in an open veld on Tuesday is hers.

Gauteng police have arrested a man who was allegedly last seen with missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo who disappeared on Monday afternoon.