The department of international relations & co-operation (Dirco) has the influence and weight to ensure that the shooting of former rugby player Lindani Myeni is properly investigated.

Two air force helicopters are being used to help contain a fire raging above Simon's Town.

Police minister Bheki Cele and police management arrived at the Cape Town magistrate’s court on Monday for the appearance of alleged underworld figure Nafiz Modack.

Regent of the Zulu nation, Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, will be buried at a private funeral at the "crack of dawn" on Thursday.

Argentina coronavirus cases hit 3 million on Sunday since the pandemic began, as medical workers said hospitals were full to capacity despite toughened government measures to bring down the spread of infections.

A tornado tore through the southern US city of Tupelo on Sunday, blowing the roofs off homes and tearing down trees and power lines, but there were no immediate reports of injuries.

A bird strike is believed to have caused a helicopter crash in which two people were killed in Durban on Monday.

A KwaZulu-Natal man has made a court appearance in connection with the alleged rape of his 89-year-old grandmother.

The family of the 29-year old is expected to hold a memorial service for him ahead of his funeral on Saturday.

A 28-year-old man linked to a series of killings in the Mpumalanga taxi industry will appear in court on murder and attempted murder charges on Monday.

The snake expert said there must be a female black mamba in the area.

A man who allegedly stole an SUV at gunpoint from a panelbeating workshop was cornered by police and arrested after a car chase through the streets of Gqeberha.

Coronavirus updates.

Homeless shelters across SA have found themselves overwhelmed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Ongoing residential disputes in the impoverished southern Johannesburg area of Bellavista have caused chaos among residents.

Acting on a wide-reaching report, Barbara Creecy concedes that canned hunting doesn’t contribute to conservation

Gasoline tanker trucks burst into flames in Kabul overnight, killing at least seven people and starting large fires that caused power cuts to some parts of the Afghan capital, officials said on Sunday.

Nomzamo Buthelezi, a member of the Stellenbosch University SRC, was killed in an alleged hit-and-run incident on Sunday, the institution announced.

Six suspects are expected to appear in the Moorreesburg magistrate's court on Monday after allegedly stealing Vodacom cellphone tower batteries.

Four astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station early on Sunday in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, parachuting to splash-down in the Gulf of Mexico, Nasa said.

The first batch of Pfizer vaccines - 325,260 doses - is expected to arrive in SA shortly before midnight on Sunday amid strict security measures, health minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement.

It’s been a little while since we last heard from the upcoming mobile game set in CD Projekt Red’s Witcher universe, but it looks like an official release of The Witcher: Monster Slayer can’t be far away if they’re opening up for global early...

Revellers in Wuhan danced, bounced and screamed as some of their favourite acts took to the stage in the city where Covid-19 first emerged.

Monster Hunter Rise wasn’t a game I’d expected to fall head over heels in love with. I wasn’t even really expecting to like it, to be honest, because I played quite a bit of Monster Hunter World and didn’t enjoy it at all.

Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days on Sunday killing seven people, media reported, three months after a coup plunged the country into crisis.

Despite it existing in a quantum state of uncertainty thanks to supply issues and the ongoing global semiconductor crisis, it turns out that the PlayStation 5 console is still a wildly successful launch for Sony.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced more allegations on Sunday about his expenditure on the refurbishment of his apartment and on childcare for his young son, which his foreign minister dismissed as baseless gossip.

The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality's council has approved the construction of a seawater desalination plant.

Israel observed a day of mourning on Sunday for 45 people crushed to death at a Jewish religious festival, with flags lowered to half-staff and questions raised about accountability for one of the country's worst civilian disasters.

The department of basic education is considering the possibility of allowing all primary school pupils to return to school on a fulltime basis.