Journalist and author James Clarke, who died aged 90 on Friday, has been honoured for his long career, commitment to conservation and his sense of humour.

Tony O'Reilly, the Irish media tycoon and former H.J. Heinz Co boss who first rose to prominence as a record-breaking British and Irish Lions rugby player, died on Saturday at the age of 88.

Minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment Barbara Creecy has expressed "shock and sadness" over the sinking of a fishing trawler off Cape Town's Atlantic coast.

Police in Seshego in Limpopo are searching for two suspects who allegedly robbed and raped two women who were attending a prayer session.

A 47-year-old North West primary schoolteacher accused of raping two pupils has been remanded after appearing before the Wolmaransstad magistrate’s court on Friday.

Nine fishermen have been rescued as a search and rescue mission continues for 11 others still missing after a fishing trawler sank in deep sea off Cape Town's Atlantic seaboard.

Award-winning South African musician Tyla continues to dominate the global stage and is giving world-renowned singers like Beyoncé a run for their money.

The Roodepoort magistrate's court on Friday denied bail to the six men facing charges related to the murder of Kaizer Chiefs player Luke Fleurs.

A 28-year-old man who raped an 18-year-old woman before stabbing her to death in Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape last year was on Friday sentenced to three life terms.

Crying and gasping for air, a mother of a two-year-old child who was allegedly raped while attending day care pleaded for justice at a meeting attended by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi this week.

Xolani Sebothoma from Dennilton in Limpopo has been sentenced to three life terms and 65 years’ imprisonment for multiple rapes he committed between July 2019 and September 2020.

Two suspects arrested on Thursday in connection with the murder of Ditebogo Junior Phalane, who was shot dead during his father's hijacking outside their home in Soshanguve last week, have not yet been charged with his murder.

“I wasn't ready to say goodbye, I'd give anything for just one day,” the parents of the five-year-old Soshanguve boy tragically shot during the hijacking of his father's car said in a letter read on their behalf at his funeral service on Friday.

The George building collapse disaster will be remembered for its tragic loss of life but also for the brave and selfless work by more than 1,000 rescue, support and volunteer workers.

Asylum seekers say they face months of delays in receiving permits from Pretoria’s Desmond Tutu Refugee Centre because of bribery.

Four congregants of the controversial Mancoba Seven Angels Ministries cult who stormed the Ngcobo police station and killed five police officers were on Friday found guilty of more than 20 charges, six years after the shocking attacks.

Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the justice department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes, nine people involved in the effort told Reuters.

MK Party’s Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has been in the spotlight after addressing party supporters in Wentworth, KwaZulu-Natal in English when she was assisted by an isiZulu translator this week.

Ghana's parliament, which has been adjourned since March following a row between the speaker and the president over an anti-LGBT bill, will reconvene on Friday to discuss approval of ministerial appointees and other "urgent matters".

German archeologists have unearthed a skeleton of a man who lived around 4,800 BC in a village in Lower Bavaria.

The Democratic primary race for a US House of Representatives seat in New York state has become a new battleground for a powerful pro-Israel fundraising group, which spent nearly $2m on ads this week against incumbent Jamaal Bowman.

A vaunted 'new era' of strategic partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart Xi Jinping begun in Beijing on Thursday may not exactly have been sealed with a kiss, but it did lead to rare hugs between them.

Israel on Friday defended the military necessity of its Gaza offensive at the International Court of Justice after South Africa asked judges to order it to halt operations in Rafah and completely withdraw from the Palestinian territory.

From the beaches of Kinmen island barely 10 km from the skyscrapers of the Chinese mainland port city of Xiamen, Taiwan military personnel – and a handful of U.S. special forces reported to be there – have watched Chinese patrol vessels encroach ...

The Special Investigating Unit conducted raids on five home affairs refugee centres across the country in search of evidence of corruption on Friday.

The trial of five men accused of murdering soccer star Senzo Meyiwa continues at the high court in Pretoria on Friday.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, in a phone call with Israel Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, reinforced the “unquestionable necessity” of protecting civilians and ensuring the uninterrupted flow humanitarian aid before any potential military ...

The Dow topped 40,000 for the first time on Thursday in an all-time high, giving US President Joe Biden an opening to prove his Republican election rival's 2020 predictions wrong.

The Republican-led US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians dur...

Shoshan Haran, her daughter and two grandchildren were taken hostage by Hamas militants in Israel on October 7.