Correctional services officials are ramping up efforts to contain Covid-19 after an alarming increase in positive cases at its Helderstroom facility in the Overberg town of Caledon.

The KwaZulu-Natal government has committed to working with Durban's Hilton Hotel in an attempt to ensure it reopens its doors soon.

Five men have been arrested after a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and fatally stabbed in Port Elizabeth.

Police have arrested a suspected drug dealer for travelling on a taxi with 160kg of dagga.

When a wife was not seen the day after neighbours heard an argument the previous evening, their suspicions were aroused.

South African scientists are testing whether vaccines will be less effective against a Covid-19 variant first detected locally and hope for initial results within two weeks, a professor at the national communicable disease institute said.

Brazilian researchers have identified the concerning new coronavirus variant first discovered in SA in a woman who contracted Covid-19 for the second time, and said it was the first such case reported in the world.

Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.

Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker's lectern and another who wore horns and a fur pelt, while a top Democratic lawmaker called on mobile carriers to preserve social...

Iran will expel UN nuclear watchdog inspectors unless US sanctions are lifted by a February 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday.

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National crime intelligence boss Lt-Gen Peter Jacobs and five other senior crime intelligence officers will have to foot their legal bills after they lost a high court bid to have their suspensions overturned.

A matric marker in KwaZulu-Natal died on Saturday after being rushed to hospital from a marking centre.

Durban businessman Visham Panday has scored a minor legal victory in his protracted fight to expose alleged corruption at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) medical school.

A Sriwijaya Air plane thought to have 62 people on board lost contact after taking off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta on Saturday and rescuers said suspected debris had been found in the sea off the city.

A team of investigators has been assembled to probe the discovery of an arms cache recovered by police from the Raubenheimer Dam, outside Oudtshoorn, in the Little Karoo, over the past two days, Western Cape police said.

Police in Limpopo have arrested a suspected drug kingpin and seized drugs worth more than R1m.

A truck driver was arrested in Durban on Friday for transporting imported beer worth R1.9m in violation of lockdown regulations.

Ten newborns were killed on Saturday in a massive fire at a hospital in Maharashtra, India's richest state, a doctor said, as leading politicians expressed grief at the loss of life.

Owners of the two biggest mobile app stores took action on Friday against the Parer social networking service because of posts inciting violence, with Alphabet Inc's Google removing it and Apple Inc warning it may do the same.

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The FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 (R766,000) for information on who placed pipe bombs in the committee headquarters of both major US political parties in Washington.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more advanced nuclear weapons and said the US is "our biggest enemy," state media said on Saturday, presenting a stark challenge to President-elect Joe Biden just days before he takes office.

Twitter Inc on Friday deleted new tweets posted by US President Donald Trump on official government account @POTUS and suspended the account of his presidential campaign, after booting his personal account off the platform permanently.

Southern California is so overwhelmed with coronavirus cases that patients are backed up trying to get into hospitals, and corpses get stuck in another logjam once they leave.

SA recorded its worst day for Covid-19 infections, with 21,980 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.

At Beitbridge, in Limpopo, the floating white wings intermingle with thousands of people coming back into the country from Zimbabwe

Table Mountain National Park is investigating an incident in which two of its staff allegedly “wrestled” an elderly foreign tourist to the ground reportedly in an attempt to enforce lockdown regulations.

Close to 50 burials took place within the last week of December at two cemeteries in the city of uMhlathuze.

SA is advising travellers who came into the country via the Beitbridge border post in the past four days to self-quarantine.