"An approach that introduces new interventions without looking at a few pockets of success is unlikely to produce the desired results,” says NGO.

The Protea magistrate's court in Soweto was forced to postpone all court cases on Wednesday after going five weeks without water due to a plumbing problem.

Two men died when a structural wall collapsed on their shack in Siyanda, north of Durban, after a mudslide caused by heavy rainfall in the early hours of Thursday morning.

His love for teaching and his passion for bettering the lives of rural pupils resulted in physical science teacher Sizwe Kubheka working for six months without getting paid.

The SA Informal Traders Alliance (Saita) has welcomed the budget allocation of R4bn to the department of small business development to support rural and township-based enterprises.

Mpumalanga police have denied allegations that a police officer, seemingly passed out behind the wheel of a state vehicle at the weekend, was drunk.

Port Elizabeth is history. The biggest metro in the province is now called Gqeberha. East London is next.

The police continue to crack down on operations linked to alleged drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay, known as Teddy Mafia, almost three months after his death.

The Budget speech sets the stage for what is likely to be a slow and difficult recovery from the pandemic over the next three years, writes Viresh Harduth.

A sailor who fell overboard into the Pacific Ocean from a cargo ship survived by latching onto what he thought was rubbish for 14 hours before being rescued.

It’s official! Sony’s next generation of console gaming will also be joined by the new generation of virtual reality.

The Australian parliament on Thursday passed a new law designed to force Alphabet Inc's Google and Facebook Inc to pay media companies for content used on their platforms in reforms that could be replicated in other countries.

The first big real-world study of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be independently reviewed shows the shot is highly effective at preventing Covid-19.

Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa's most populous nation, officials and residents said.

The Czech Republic will ban travel by its citizens to several African and South American countries where there is high risk from new SA or Brazilian coronavirus variants, the government said on Wednesday.

New variants of the African swine fever virus circulating in China appear to cause a milder form of the disease, making it less deadly but harder to detect and to get under control, a study published this week showed.

"At some point even the name South Africa must go," suggested one user.

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Tshwane metro police officers recovered metal spikes placed along the N4 highway near the Diamond Hill Toll Plaza.

SAB says there was no consultation or warning about the impending beer price hike.

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British American Tobacco SA (Batsa) believes finance minister Tito Mboweni made a mistake by hiking tobacco prices as the industry tries to recover from the ban that was imposed during the hard lockdown.

Zimbabwe will buy an additional 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China at a preferential price, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson said on Wednesday, after Beijing agreed to give more free doses to the southern African country.

Zimbabwe’s co-vice president shoots down 'sex scandal' allegations.

It is a national tragedy that South Africans continue to die at the hands of their loved ones, the police minister said at a KZN homestead where a social worker allegedly killed six family members on Saturday.

Gauteng's education department on Wednesday named the worst performing schools in the 2020 academic year as Kgothalang Secondary in the West Rand and Eureka High in Springs.

"Some of the refugees were former soldiers who opposed orders to beat up civilians."

Gauteng had the most ever candidates qualifying for bachelor studies.

January tourism data will reflect even worse numbers than December, because of the closure of beaches and rivers and the ban on the sale of alcohol, says the Tourism Business Council of SA.

Assailants killed a dozen people in two overnight attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army, a witness and a local rights group said on Wednesday, blaming an Islamist militia.