Muzikayise Malephane pleaded guilty on Friday, telling the court he had been paid to murder Tshegofatso Pule so her lover's wife would not learn of her pregnancy.

The Independent Examinations Board attributed the results to good, solid teaching and learning before grade 12.

The AU is setting up a fund to finance the construction of much-needed roads, railways and power plants on the continent, turning to new sources of cash due to donor fatigue and higher debt levels.

Residents in Soweto say the 15.63% electricity tariff increase will cripple them.

An East London businessman was allegedly kidnapped in Butterworth, where he runs a workshop, on Thursday afternoon.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday named Marian Croak, one of its few Black executives, to oversee research on responsible artificial intelligence (AI) after weeks of internal anger over its firing of a prominent Black scientist.

It will be a lengthy wait before ANC secretary-general and former Free State premier Ace Magashule and his co-accused confirm or deny their involvement in the asbestos roofing tender scandal.

A routine pickup for an e-hailing driver ended in brutal murder on Wednesday night, leaving a father distraught as he fought the realisation that the man hunched over the steering wheel, fatally shot and bleeding, was his son.

As we look back at the André Stander case, it becomes clear that many important issues were left unaddressed, perhaps even purposefully hidden to maintain the shine of the hottest news story of the time.

The three people who have been added to the asbestos fraud and corruption case have been named.

Japan confirmed a new variant of Covid-19, and an infection cluster emerged at a Tokyo immigration facility, presenting new challenges as the country tries to overcome a third wave of the pandemic.

The White House said on Thursday a severe winter storm engulfing Texas and nearby states was the type of extreme weather event that climate change is triggering, rejecting assertions by Texas officials that "green energy" caused widespread power outa...

"Let the NPA do whatever they want to do, I'm ready for anything," ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule pronounced on Friday, as he arrived at court in Bloemfontein.

A top Pfizer Inc scientist says the company is in intensive discussions with regulators to test a booster shot version of its coronavirus vaccine specifically targeted for a highly contagious variant that is spreading widely in SA and elsewhere.

New Zealand officials injected a small group of medical professionals with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Friday, in preparation for a wider rollout over the weekend.

Unregistered medicines with a market value of R126m have been seized at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

Facebook Inc's WhatsApp said on Thursday it will go ahead with its controversial privacy policy update but will allow users to read it at "their own pace" and will also display a banner providing additional information.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and a newly hired high-profile litigator interviewed Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, on Thursday, as part of a criminal probe of the former president’s business dealings, said two people fam...

While flying at 27,000ft above sea level on January 25, the crew of a Mango flight from Johannesburg to Durban declared an emergency and broadcast a “mayday” situation.

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Three more government officials have been arrested by the Hawks in Bloemfontein in connection with the R255m Free State asbestos saga.

How did it come about that a person of Jacob Zuma's calibre could dominate the national scene for almost a decade? To understand this, we first have to try to understand Zuma the man and the ANC itself.

Four out of five ivermectin tablets tested in a study published this week had "at least one" additional pharmaceutical ingredient which had not been registered.

Angola has become the latest African country to decriminalise same-sex relationships.

The Independent Examinations Board has recorded a 98.07% matric pass rate for 2020, a slight drop compared to the previous year's 98.82%.

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TimesLIVE spoke to some of the IEB top achievers after the class of 2020 recorded a 98.07% pass rate.

SA recorded 2,327 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of confirmed cases to date to 1,498,766.

Zimbabwe Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga became the first citizen to get the first shot of the two-dose Chinese Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday.

The Gauteng education department has appointed an independent investigative body to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Sibongiseni Khoza from Protea South Primary School in Soweto.