A gang tried to siphon fuel from a Transnet fuel pipeline in Mpumalanga on Thursday night, the Hawks said.

About 1,000 residents blocked several roads with burning tyres and rocks, Gauteng police said.

The Voëlklip road near Herolds Bay is safe for public use despite a spate of suicides and accidents in the area, say the Western Cape transport department and a local ratepayers' association.

In a dramatic start to the trial of former EFF Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Zilindile Vena, he claimed his elderly mother had collapsed when she heard he had been accused of raping a Nelson Mandela University student.

Civil society organisations have criticised the government for its plans to reduce expenditure on health and even on critical programmes such as HIV/Aids.

Kidnappers have abducted schoolchildren in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, a spokesperson for the state governor said on Friday, but declined to say how many people were taken or provide further details.

Kenya will kickstart its vaccine campaign next week, BBC reports.

SA’s energy regulator on Thursday approved a power generation licence for a large solar plant at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine, a long-awaited breakthrough for miners desperate to curb their reliance on ailing power utility Eskom.

Twenty-seven years after her death, the murder of Ewa Nosal is still having an impact on SA, in the most unlikely of ways. True Crime South Africa tells the story.

A year after the first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Brazil, Latin America's biggest country has passed 250,000 Covid-19 deaths, with the virus still spreading freely as a national vaccination drive struggles to gain momentum.

Sahpra CEO Boitumelo Semete said the data would be evaluated for safety, quality and efficacy of SputnikV vaccine.

Reporter Lindsay Dentlinger faced backlash on social media after a newsclip of her asking the UDM's Nqabayomzi Kwankwa to wear a mask during an interview while FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald was interviewed mask-less.

President Joe Biden on Thursday directed US military air strikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militia, in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq.

The monarch failed to appear in court to face charges that he allegedly assaulted his son, the former acting king, Prince Azenathi.

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Monhla Hlahla exits state-owned weapons manufacturer Denel.

Controversial puppet Chester Missing took the subject head-on, cracking a joke about those who chose to travel elsewhere because they aren't able to say the new name for Port Elizabeth.

Rather than cast debates about current affairs as good or bad, true or false, South Africans need to address the underlying problem – our widely divergent life experiences. Read about this and much more in this week's Vrye Weekblad.

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Brandon Beukes, who has been in custody since September 2018, is charged alongside 10 other alleged Junky Funky Kidz (JFK) gangsters with a series of offences under the Prevention of Organised Crime and Corrupt Activities (Poca) Act.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) has reconstructed a crime scene that was “cleared” four hours before the police watchdog was alerted to a death in  custody in Gauteng.

The matric pass rate of pupils who wrote their final examinations behind bars in 2020 was 86.3%, the department of correctional services (DCS) said on Thursday.

Mystery surrounds the fatal shooting of two Pietermaritzburg police officers who died in a hail of bullets after being ambushed in Taylors Halt on Saturday night.

Syria's health minister said on Thursday it had received Covid-19 vaccination doses from a "friendly country" and healthcare workers would start receiving inoculations next week.

Transnet employees were bust allegedly stealing copper at a depot in Pretoria.

Netflix Inc said on Thursday it plans to invest $500 million on original movies and TV shows in South Korea this year, as the streaming giant expands in one of the fastest growing markets in Asia.

SA aims to vaccinate around 1.1 million people against Covid-19 by the end of March as it ramps up its immunisation programme, health minister Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday.

"The Gauteng department of health now has the capacity to operationalise 4,265 functional beds through its hospital infrastructure should the need arise," said health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi.

Nigeria will draw up a supplementary budget in March to cover the cost of Covid-19 vaccinations, for which no provision was made in the 2021 finance bill adopted in December, finance minister Zainab Ahmed said on Thursday.

Buying a big house, investing and taking care of close loved ones are on the cards for R7.4m lottery winner.