A child’s sewage-soaked teddy bear lies amid plastic bottles and rotting waste, while an onshore breeze carries the stench of human excrement and rotten eggs to people gathered on the shore.

Five people, including two children, drowned in separate incidents across SA at the weekend, the National Sea Rescue Institute reported.

A prison warder was killed and his wife and two children injured during a botched cash-in-transit heist on the East Rand on Friday.

In what may be a first for railway timetabling, Metrorail commuter trains on Cape Town’s southern line will begin running to Simon’s Town a month ahead of schedule.

Broken promises‚ a lack of political will and a desperate shortage of government money mean there is little hope the Vaal River's sewage pollution crisis will end any time soon.

Two more Vaal Dam sluice gates were opened on Monday, bringing to four the number of open gates at the country's second biggest dam.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has said any funds allocated for repairs to what appeared to be "irreversible damage" following a fire that ripped through the National Assembly building on Sunday, should be spent on relocating parliament to Tshwane instead.

The person taken into custody in connection with the fire that broke out in parliament's National Assembly building is now confirmed as a suspect in the blaze.

A draft report found there were no smoke detectors installed in the roof of the National Assembly building at parliament which was gutted by fire on Sunday.

Cape Town police arrested a man on Friday morning after finding 1,000 Mandrax tablets in his bag.