He has spent 17 years diving into freezing water, navigating perilous rapids and rappelling down sheer cliffs — all for the sake of bringing hope or closure to the loved ones of missing people across the Eastern Cape.

Zimbabwe is reintroducing rhinos to its second biggest wildlife park Gonarezhou in the south of the country, the first time that the sanctuary will be home to the species in 30 years, the parks authority said on Thursday.

'In some instances, the police officer would confiscate dagga from general members of the public and sell it to dagga dealers,' said Brig Tembinkosi Kinana.

The R500m Boardwalk Mall extension and upgrade project will create thousands of jobs and be a “game-changer” in the quest to reduce unemployment and boost local tourism in Gqeberha.

The former public protector said we should all be proactive to prevent a third wave of Covid-19 infections.

The state of municipal facilities has resulted in some local football associations falling behind on fixtures while others haven’t even started playing.

Ivory Coast and Ghana asked cocoa and chocolate companies last week to pay more in premiums to support farmers' wages, the head of Ivory Coast's industry regulator told Reuters on Thursday.

The public area in the Mahikeng high court was populated with history’s ghosts at the resumption of the murder trial of the police officers implicated in the strike at Marikana in 2012 that left 44 people dead.

A police officer in Congo's capital Kinshasa was beaten to death and 46 others were wounded as rival Muslim groups clashed during Eid celebrations on Thursday, a police spokesman said.

Kenya's High Court ruled on Thursday that a drive by President Uhuru Kenyatta to change the constitution was illegal, stopping what his critics have called a political move designed to check his deputy, whom he has fallen out with publicly.

Muslims across the world celebrated Eid al-Fitr with masks and prayers, as conflicts and coronavirus restrictions cast shadows over the festival's mass gatherings and family reunions.

Police fired teargas to disperse a crowd of more than 200 people protesting in Kenya's capital Nairobi on Thursday against the Israeli bombing of the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Turkey's Karpowership, which provides electricity to Lebanon from two barges, said on Friday it was shutting down supplies over payment arrears and after a legal threat to its vessels in the country, which is in the midst of a deep economic crisis.

Myanmar's junta has declared martial law in a town in Chin State after blaming “armed terrorists” for attacks on a police station and a bank, state media reported on Friday, amid an upsurge in fighting between the military and ethnic rebels in bo...

Nine people were wounded, three of them critical in Providence, Rhode Island, on Thursday in an exchange of gunfire between a home and the occupants of a car, police officials said.

The UN  Security Council will publicly discuss the worsening violence between Israel and Palestinian militants on Sunday, diplomats said, reaching a compromise over US objections to a meeting on Friday.

Israel fired artillery and mounted more air strikes on Friday against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip amid constant rocket fire deep into Israel's commercial centre.

The origin of the novel coronavirus is still unclear and there is not yet enough evidence to say conclusively if it occurred naturally or was caused by a laboratory leak, a group of leading scientists said in a letter.

A judge in Minneapolis on Thursday postponed the trial of three former policemen accused of taking part in the murder of George Floyd to March 2022, saying the federal case against the men should proceed first, local media reported.

The number of recorded Covid-19 infections in India climbed above 24 million on Friday amid reports that the highly transmissible coronavirus mutant first detected in the country was spreading across the globe.

Eight suspects are due to appear in different courts in the Western Cape on Friday on charges of rape and extortion, respectively.

A delay of five years did not save a former Tshwane metro police official who tapped an undercover cop for a bribe.

Two high-ranking police officers in Gauteng have been arrested in connection with human trafficking.

"Cleaner air, cheaper transport and stable access to electricity is within grasp for sub-Saharan Africa - we just need to mobilise the data and investment to make it happen,” said co-author Stephanie Hirmer of the University of Oxford's Energy and ...

We are anticipating one of the most significant judgments in our country’s history – about Jacob Zuma’s contempt of the Constitutional Court’s earlier finding that the former president was obliged to appear before the state capture inquiry, V...

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Cape Town has hinted that a baboon killed after it was shot at with a pellet gun was the result of the withdrawal of support for the use of paintball guns by the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA).

The Special Investigating Unit and Transnet said they have made a strong case for the recovery of millions improperly obtained by former Transnet Capital Projects executive Herbert Msagala and engineering company IGS.

A controversial platinum mine in Limpopo was officially launched on Thursday, despite ongoing questions over the involvement of its BEE partner and a pending court case