Pupil Singo Ravele said a teacher told her she would look better if she chemically straightened her hair.

The body of 67-year-old Makgala Nelly Sebanyone, who was reported missing last month, was found on a farm in Hennenman, police said.

Robbers who shot dead a security guard abandoned their loot after being involved in a car crash.

A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with the H10N3 strain of bird flu, China's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, 106, can still remember a house engulfed in flames and bodies stacked in truckbeds - horrors that 100 years later led to a pledge by President Joe Biden to work for racial justice.

Saudi Arabia's Islamic affairs minister on Monday defended an order to lower the volume on mosque loudspeakers, saying families had been complaining that competing speakers were keeping their children awake.

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Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at one former school last week shocked the country.

A 30-year-old man is set to appear in the Theunissen magistrate's court on Tuesday after he was linked to a murder that allegedly occurred on a farm at the weekend.

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo plans to return home on June 17 after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, his party said on Monday.

SA schools that were reserved for white pupils during apartheid should recruit more black educators, teach more African languages and change admissions criteria, according to the country’s central bank governor.

Launched by the deputy health minister Joe Phaahla on Monday to mark World No Tobacco Day, the South African Tobacco Control Data initiative is aimed to help South Africans understand data needs and gaps, and provide reliable data on tobacco control ...

"Hey Eishkom! President Ramaphosa moved SA to level two lockdown today, NOT stage two load-shedding," wrote one user.

Western Cape head of detectives Maj-Gen Jeremy Vearey has been dismissed after he posted disparaging comments on Facebook about national police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole.

Rising unemployment and high food prices during the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed many South African households deeper into poverty – putting children at even greater risk.

These letters of the Greek alphabets will, the WHO hopes, avoid stigma and discrimination against the countries where these strains were originally detected.

As Joburgers brace for increased rates, taxes, electricity, water and refuse removal costs come July 1, there will be one highlight - the city’s inadequate fleet of old fire engines is about to be upscaled.

SA recorded 2,792 new Covid-19 cases and 67 fatalities in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Monday.

At least two people died and about six are injured after a bakkie rolled off a freeway bridge in Durban and fell on to the road below.

The SA Weather Service has warned of a week of very cold temperatures across most of the country from Monday into the weekend.

Cape Town metro police were “gobsmacked” when a brazen motorist allegedly took a swig of brandy straight out the bottle when he was stopped at a roadblock.

The R10m "scooter ambulance" tender awarded by the health department in the Eastern Cape has been set aside.

The Film and Publication Board says it has noted an increase in cases of children being targeted for online grooming.

Gauteng's health department has raised concerns about the knock-on effects of water disruptions in Johannesburg on facilities such as Helen Joseph and Rahima Moosa Mother and Child hospitals.

Shepherd Bushiri on Friday shared photographs of a visiting church delegation from SA with him in Malawi.

The eThekwini municipality is yet to disclose the record of its decision to approve the development of the multistorey apartment building at 317 Currie Road, citing Covid-19 as one of the reasons.

Brace for stage 2 load-shedding.

The 44-year-old won R181,059 in the Daily Lotto, a boon after being unemployed for more than a year.

'When the door was eventually broken down, flames shot out and police had to retreat,' said police spokesperson Col Priscilla Naidu.

This is not the first time EFF leader Julius Malema’s hints about lockdown have been correct.