In episode 50 of 'True Crime South Africa', we delve into this baffling missing person’s case and the long-term effects of a disappearance on a family.

South Korea said on Monday it had found no link between the coronavirus vaccine and several recent deaths, as it ordered nearly 100,000 foreign workers to be tested after clusters emerged in dormitories.

A nurse who has been on the front line against Covid-19 says the Eastern Cape health department has not paid her for nine months.

Two children were allegedly mowed down by a driver in New Brighton.

The name Boko Haram strikes fear among businesspeople and foreign shop owners in Mamelodi township, east of Pretoria, where the vigilante group has wreaked havoc for more than two years.

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd was due to begin on Monday with the screening of jurors to weigh murder and manslaughter charges in a case seen as a referendum on police violence against Blac...

Mapula Khune, 27, died in a house fire last week. Her body was discovered in a house in Tshing, outside Ventersdorp, in North West province.

A rare disease called multisystem inflammatory syndrome is being recorded in some cases of children who have contracted Covid-19, CNN reports.

The US has identified three online publications directed by Russia's intelligence services that it says are seeking to undermine Covid-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, a state department spokesperson said on Sunday.

A KwaZulu-Natal woman has been charged with grievous bodily harm after she allegedly beat her teenage daughter with a sjambok for defying an instruction not to attend school.

French billionaire Olivier Dassault died on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician.

Some of the fish may have been dead longer than thought, said the department of environment, forestry and fisheries.

A series of large explosions at a military base that killed at least 15 people in Equatorial Guinea on Sunday were the result of negligence related to the use of dynamite, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said.

Transport minister Fikile Mbalula’s defence of government’s fight against corruption has seen him taking a major L online.

Schools in Senegal will shut until March 15, the education ministry said on Sunday, after days of violent protests that have paralysed parts of the capital Dakar and are expected to continue next week.

Pope Francis ended his historic tour of Iraq on Monday, departing by plane from Baghdad after visiting conflict-torn cities, meeting Muslim and Christian leaders and preaching peace and coexistence over war.

Sanral says badly painted lines on the N2 in the Eastern Cape's Kouga municipality will be redone once roadworks are completed.

OPINION: More than ever, the world has come to recognise the invaluable contribution of these front-line workers as they continue to place their own lives at risk to save those of others in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Zola Sapheta.

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The cigarette ban in the country was "successful" and slashed a number of emergency visits for lung diseases at a Western Cape hospital, according to a study by the African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets.

A police sergeant was shot 27 times by heavily armed criminals in eMpangeni in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday evening, the provincial transport community and safety department said.

He deeply believed in Africa's potential and was a pillar of strength for his family.

Covid-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus.

A truck driver has been arrested for causing a major accident on William Nicol drive close to Life Flora Hospital in Roodepoort, the Johannesburg metro police department said.

Swiss voters are deciding on a far-right proposal to ban facial coverings as they take to the polls on Sunday in a binding referendum viewed as a test of attitudes toward Muslims.

A senior counsel has been appointed to independently investigate the drowning of two young boys at a road construction site in Mamelodi, Tshwane, the Gauteng department of roads and transport announced on Sunday.

Two men were found murdered, tied with wire and wrapped in plastic in Eldorado Park in Johannesburg at the weekend, police said.

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A German couple has been found guilty of murdering another German national and farm owner Claus Schroeder from Port Elizabeth despite his body never being found — more than 11 years after his disappearance.