Thales SA will have to face racketeering charges, the Pietermaritzburg high court ruled on Friday when it dismissed the French arms company's review application.

Most accidents occurred on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, after the curfew time, said transport minister Fikile Mbalula on Friday, as he announced the 2020 festive season road statistics.

Police made a breakthrough in the murders of a 20-year-old mother and nine-month-old infant at a lodge in Limpopo this week.

Many teachers fear the new coronavirus variant could wreak havoc in schools.

Prisons are overcrowded and understaffed and the department of correctional services is not acting in the best interest of officials amid increasing Covid-19 infections among prisoners and prison staff.

What was supposed to be a jolly time for a Limpopo family ended tragically when five relatives died of illnesses related to Covid-19 after a meeting ahead of lobola negotiations.

British couple Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien had been planning to marry in June. Then Covid-19 struck.

The Communication Workers Union said there will be a blackout of service when its members down tools at the SABC from 11am to 2pm on Friday.

The Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria has shut down one of its two 1,000 megawatt units after a protection system was activated at its Unit 5 after a routine technical operation, a senior Bulgarian official said on Friday.

SA has acquired roughly half the vaccine it needs for the country to hit its target of achieving herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

As Covid-19 climb and as lockdown level 3 bites, cemeteries have become places ice-cream vendors rely on to try put food on the table.

The department of agriculture, land reform and rural development has asked owners of cattle, sheep and goats to vaccinate their animals against Rift Valley Fever (RVF).

The Western Cape police management has commended investigators for their dedication and vigilance which led to the arrest and subsequent conviction of a man who robbed a 33-year-old physically disabled man in Knysna in 2018.

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The movement of the rand against the US dollar in 2020 is a striking example of how difficult it is for economists and investors to predict the future value of exchange rates.

Zimbabwe's first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has invited women in her country to join her for three days of prayer and fasting over the Covid-19 pandemic.

On Thursday morning, anaesthetist Dr Kgopotso Rudolph Mononyane, was meant to leave Johannesburg’s Milpark Hospital as part of a medical crew that was flying to Durban to transport a critically-ill patient.

With the rise in Covid-19 cases, more police visibility and “Janu-worry” blues, alcohol sales in the illicit market have slumped.

SA recorded nearly 650 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, as the country fast approached the 40,000 fatalities mark.

The search for a two-year-old girl is under way after the vehicle she had been in plunged down the notorious Voëlklip cliff in Herolds Bay, near George in the Western Cape, on Thursday.

The former Gauteng health MEC’s lawyers fight to free him from the ‘albatross on his neck’

A hijacked property was handed over to its owner in Doornfontein, eastern Johannesburg, on Thursday and 40 suspects who were found at the property were arrested during a sting operation by JMPD and the city’s Group Forensic and Investigation Servic...

A suspected cable thief was badly burnt and hospitalised on Thursday afternoon after allegedly tampering with a mini electricity substation in East Town, Johannesburg.

A helicopter pilot and four health-care workers died when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday.

The announcement comes as SA reels from a new wave of Covid-19 infections and harder lockdown restrictions

"Another moment in our endless grieving journey."

Riots and violent clashes between Tunisian police and young protesters broke out across several cities, including the capital Tunis for the fifth consecutive day, as the country faces an economic crisis.

Private hospital group Netcare has opened temporary facilities in three provinces to manage increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients.

Islamic State militants could have launched a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 28 people in a Baghdad market on Thursday, the first such attack in years, Iraq's civil defence chief said.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has identified two men who were assaulted - one with a sjambok - by three police officers in Worcester.