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Nearly 3,000 white crosses dot a hillside at the Witkruis Monument, marking white farmers killed over 30 years. But it tells only part of the story. The site has fueled a false narrative of racial targeting, despite studies showing farm attacks affect all races in South Africa.

South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all the bodies after hundreds of miners were trapped for months in one of the country’s deepest mines while working illegally. Cover Image: Themba Hadebe/AP

Bugs have been unleashed as bio-weapons in the Vaal River to help stave off invasive plants flourishing on the water.

A newborn baby wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown into a river in Sebokeng, in southern Gauteng, was saved from certain death by men who managed to pull it from the water.

Rescue efforts at the site concluded on Friday after a recovery operation that lasted 260 hours.

Parts of Bree Street sank after an underground explosion on Wednesday

A number of patients were requested to leave the Charlotte Maxeke hospital in Johannesburg on Wednesday because of the ongoing Nehawu strike

A large crowd of people in EFF t-shirts carrying placards, singing struggle songs have gathered at the MTN taxi rank in Johannesburg. Most shops in the CBD are closed and there is a large police and private security presence in the area.

Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius' application for parole, has been refused after authorities found that he had not served the “minimum detention period” necessary to qualify for release.

Outraged Alexandra residents who had been without electricity for days because technicians could not access electricity cables and fix the problem took matters into their own hands and demolished a property that had been built on the cables.

Four electricians were killed after they were attacked by members of the community they were coming to help.

Babita Deokaran was a civil servant who took a stand against corruption and paid for her uprightness with her life. This documentary is a melding of never-before-seen home footage, exclusive interviews with her relatives and a dive into a News24 investigation which gives her a voice from beyond the grave. Coming soon to News24.