A City of Joburg health worker was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly selling fake Covid-19 negative test certificates to travellers for R500.

As vaccine hesitancy threatens to bring the Covid-19 vaccine rollout to a halt, some have suggested withdrawing priviliges or dumping your partner to convince them to get the jab.

Chad has decided to recall half of its 1,200 troops battling Islamist militants in the tri-border area of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, a spokesperson for the Chadian authorities said on Saturday.

Armed gunmen kidnapped at least 75 people from a village in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Saturday, the latest in a slew of abductions that have plagued the West African country's west.

Thousands demonstrated across France for a sixth consecutive weekend on Saturday against a Covid-19 health pass required for daily activities, highlighting a simmering political risk for President Emmanuel Macron.

Hurricane Grace pummeled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after becoming one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country's Gulf coast.

The United States on Friday charged a North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck near the US Capitol the day before, leading to a five-hour standoff with law enforcement.

Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers imposed some order around chaotic Kabul airport on Sunday, making sure people formed orderly queues outside the main gates and not allowing crowds to gather at the perimeter, witnesses said.

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Namibia's Chanique Rabe bested 57 beauties from around the globe for the title of Miss Supranational on Saturday.

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has reacted to the murder of the University of Fort Hare student whose body parts were found in a bag this week.

Cape fur seals disentangled from fishing lines and nets “face a very painful and uncertain future”, a new study has found.

Hurricane Grace barreled into the oil-producing Mexican state of Veracruz with howling winds on Saturday, threatening coastal areas with flooding from the ocean's storm surge.

Tensions in Haiti were rising on Saturday, one week after a devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people, as scant aid has arrived in the remote regions of the impoverished Caribbean nation that were hit hardest.

Kenya's Court of Appeal upheld a decision to stop President Uhuru Kenyatta from making broad constitutional changes, limiting his ability to prevent his estranged deputy from succeeding him next year.

For the first time in nine months of war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, aid workers will run out of food this week to deliver to millions of people who are going hungry, the head of the US government's humanitarian agency said, blaming the government f...

The giant container ship Ever Given, which blocked the Suez canal for six days in March, crossed the waterway on Friday for the first time since it left Egypt after the incident.

Taliban co-founder Mullah Baradar has arrived in the Afghan capital of Kabul for talks with militant commanders, former government leaders and religious scholars, an official of the Islamist group said on Saturday.

The SA flame-grilled chicken franchise Nando's has had to temporarily shut down a number of its restaurants in Britain.

Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly robbing a woman who tried to buy an illegal firearm in the Free State.

A Free State police officer has been arrested for allegedly inflating an expenses claim.

An illegal abalone dealer has been declared an undesirable person in SA after his conviction on a slew of charges.

Rooibos could be just the cup of tea to get people through the Covid-19 pandemic, according to biotechnologists at Cape Peninsula University of Technology .

A school principal who touched a pupil's buttocks and breasts in his office and two teachers who had improper relationships with a Grade 12 girl have been fired.

An Eastern Cape man has been arrested for allegedly falsely claiming R7m from the Road Accident Fund (RAF).

Investigators probing a helicopter crash into the Umgeni River in Durban say a bird strike was to blame.

The premier was addressing the media at a pop-up mobile vaccination site launched in Springs on Thursday as part of the province's effort to get more people vaccinated.

A gardener left in charge of a family's pets used their car for a drinking binge and killed three of his friends in a high-speed crash.

A possessive husband who was jailed for ramming his car into a group of people standing around a braai has failed in a high court bid for freedom.

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