Five people were shot dead in Umlazi, south of Durban, on Tuesday night.

Police minister Bheki Cele attended a female-driven operation in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, on Tuesday to close out the police's celebration of Women’s Month.

When the stream in his village in Kenya's western Kericho County dried up 15 years ago, Wilson Towett had to ferry water each day from another river several kilometres away during the two-year dry spell that followed.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says its "Atlas" is the most comprehensive review of mortality and economic losses from weather, water and climate extremes ever produced.

Egypt is ramping up production of the Sinovac coronavirus vaccine as it aims to become a hub for vaccine exports to Africa and protect its own population of more than 100-million from a fourth wave of infections.

"They can ask Zizi Kodwa to sell the Jeep, Nomvula Mokonyane to sell the Aston Martin, and Zweli Mkhize the Land Cruiser," said one social media user.

Four states in northwestern Nigeria have implemented limits on fuel sales, weekly markets and movements via motorbikes in an effort to curb banditry.

The congressional committee probing the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol on Monday told 35 telephone, email and social media companies to preserve records which could be relevant to its investigation, the panel announced.

Crowds seeking to flee Afghanistan gathered on its borders while long queues formed at banks on Wednesday, as an administrative vacuum after the Taliban's takeover left foreign donors unsure how to respond to a looming humanitarian crisis.

US President Joe Biden held a call with Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and the CEOs of two of the largest utilities in the Gulf Coast - Leo Denault of Entergy and Tom Fanning of Southern Co - on restoring power after Hurricane Ida.

The SA Social Security Agency will continue paying R350 social relief of distress grants via the SA Post Office in September.

Jacob G Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi would not reveal how much has been raised, only saying the fund is doing 'extremely well.'

Khusela Diko is on maternity leave and will return to a different position in public service, said the presidency.

A suspected hijacker and a woman are under police guard at a Cape Town hospital after a shootout with police on Monday night.

A Durban man's eight-year crime spree came to end when police arrested him for allegedly defrauding victims of about R18m by claiming he was building houses at cost price and making off with their deposits.

The decades-long research for an HIV vaccine has hit another setback after another vaccine candidate failed in a large-scale African study.

At this time, the "mixing and matching" of Covid-19 vaccines is not recommended in SA.

Dogs have gone through a tremendous behavioural change and felt depressed during the hard lockdowns as owners couldn’t freely walk them according to research findings by Theodor Herzl High School pupil, Aidan Miltz.

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Lt-Gen Liziwe Evelyn Ntshinga has been appointed deputy national commissioner for crime detection.

SA recorded 431 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Tuesday.

Widespread flooding from Hurricane Ida and power outages on Tuesday slowed efforts by energy companies to assess damages at oil production facilities, ports and refineries.

Nigeria is prioritising the AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines, the official heading Nigeria's Covid-19 vaccination campaign said on Tuesday when asked whether the Sinopharm shot would be used in the country.

The US Senate passed legislation on Tuesday to provide aid to Americans returning from Afghanistan, sending the bill to the White House for President Joe Biden to sign into law.

The former president’s foundation says the NPA is questioning the credibility of military doctors who have examined him

State-owned power utility Eskom posted a fourth consecutive annual loss as it continued to service a mountain of debt, repaired aging plants and lost electricity revenue because of a drop in demand caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

State prosecutor Yuri Gangai painted Fees Must Fall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile as a deadbeat father in the Durban magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

The backlog at licence renewal centres has left more than a million South Africans with expired driving licences, parliament heard on Tuesday.

These days it takes a lot for me to sacrifice my sleep to play a single-player game willingly.

Kebby Maphatsoe, president of the now disbanded Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association, has died.