In this week’s Spotlight Minisode, 'True Crime South Africa' explores three cases of a very different nature.

A succession battle has erupted over the kingship of the Bapedi nation, barely two months after the death of King Thulare Victor Thulare III.

A pastor who threatened a hitchhiker at gunpoint has been convicted of rape and robbery in the Witbank regional court in Mpumalanga.

Hospitals in Brazil's main cities are reaching capacity, health officials warned, as the country recorded the world's highest Covid-19 death toll over the past week, triggering tighter restrictions on Thursday in its most populous state.

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the news of the king's death was unexpected as he hoped he would recover after his recent spell of ill health in hospital.

King Zwelithini was crowned as the eighth monarch of the Zulus at a traditional ceremony in Nongoma in KwaZulu-Natal, attended by 20,000 people, on December 3 1971.

Central African Republic will vote in a second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday under high security after a surge in rebel violence surrounding December's polls.

Seven of SA's nine provinces showed a slight increase in clean audits in the 2019-2020 financial year, while the Western Cape and Gauteng both showed a “net regression”.

Algeria recorded its first 13 cases of the coronavirus variant first discovered in Nigeria and also tested positive seven other people for the variant first identified in Britain, state research centre Pasteur Institute said on Thursday.

The shocking news of the death of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini ka Bhekizulu has shattered his in-laws of the AmaRharhabe nation.

Offering antiretroviral home deliveries for as little as R30 could drastically suppress HIV viral load among South African men, a new study has revealed.

For millions of Covid-19 survivors, the common question is always how long will the symptoms and the viral load last?

Mozambique expects to receive 1.7 million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines by May from various bilateral sources, its prime minister said on Thursday.

A Honduran drug clan leader testified in a New York court on Thursday that he paid Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez $250,000 in bribes to secure government contracts as well as protection from capture and extradition to the US.

In the wake of violent protests at the University of the Witwatersrand this week, student bodies at other institutions have thrown their weight behind their cause.

A lion had a vasectomy on Thursday after his Dutch keepers decided he had sired enough cubs.

Russia and China are racing to plug the Covid-19 vaccine gap in Africa, hoping to cement their influence on a continent where many countries have yet to administer a single shot.

More than 3,600 migrant children were being held in US border facilities as of Thursday morning, a US official told Reuters, more than four times the number in late February, a sign of a growing humanitarian and political crisis for President Joe Bid...

Here is what you need to know about Mthokozisi Ntumba.

In March of last year, Steve Cicala took his wife, Susan, to the emergency room at Clara Maass Medical Center in New Jersey to treat a worsening cough and fever, unaware she had Covid-19.

Hundreds of climbers are set to return to Mount Everest for the first time next month under strict conditions, government officials and mountaineers said, as the world's tallest peak reopens after a year closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The European Union's parliament symbolically declared the bloc an “LGBTIQ Freedom Zone” on Thursday, in its latest move to censure Hungary and Poland for their curbs on LGBT+ rights.

President Joe Biden said on Thursday he would direct US states to make all adults eligible for the coronavirus vaccine by May 1 and urged Americans in a televised address to stay vigilant against the virus, hours after he signed a $1.9 trillion stimu...

Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini is no more. IFP founder Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi confirmed the news in a statement issued on Friday.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has said the dominance of internet giants is a “fad” that does not have to endure, adding that urgent change was needed to improve a digital divide in young people's online access.

Mthokozisi Ntumba died on Wednesday after he was hit by rubber bullets when police shot at protesting Wits students.

Corruption Watch has launched an online tool to help curb corruption and misconduct within the SA Police Service.

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In this week's 'Vrye Weekblad': No-one has done more than the vaccine hunter, doctor and researcher, Prof Glenda Gray, to lead SA through the destructive first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.