A shooting incident in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban, on Friday morning has left a man fighting for his life after suffering a gunshot wound to his head and another with moderate injuries.

Ethiopia said on Thursday that rebellious forces from the Tigray region had been defeated in the adjacent Afar region and had withdrawn, but the Tigrayan forces said they had merely shifted troops to neighbouring Amhara for an offensive there.

The start of the school term has been pushed back to an unusually late date in Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT) without explanation, after schools in nearby states were targeted by kidnappers seeking ransoms.

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Tunisian President Kais Saied plans to suspend the constitution and may amend the political system via a referendum, one of his advisers said on Thursday in the first clear indication of his plans after moves his critics have called a coup.

"You have never met anyone called Karen who goes 'my name is Karen but you can call me Sinqobile because Sinqobile is easier to say'," said Koch.

Police will reinstall a tall fence around the US Capitol ahead of next week's planned rally by supporters of the roughly 600 people charged in connection with the deadly January 6 riot involving backers of former President Donald Trump, two sources f...

The rights of millions of South Africans have been jeopardised by government's failure to pass a four-year-old bill that would have compelled police to take DNA samples from violent criminals before they were paroled.

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The new certificates will be uploadable on a smartphone and will be printable too.

New disease variants, as shown by Covid-19's Delta, can change the course of pandemics, and identifying these changes is vital.

The TL was split with opinions about Carl Niehaus' dismissal.

University of Johannesburg has a track record of driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution and artificial intelligence innovations, and has now introduced an “AI robot dog” to the mix.

A police dive unit will resume its search for a 23-year-old Gauteng man who has been missing since Thursday after being swept out to sea by rip currents at a Cape Town beach.

Mpumalanga police are searching for two men who allegedly killed a 39-year-old woman before making off with an undisclosed sum of cash.

Two senior officials linked to the estates and insolvencies section of the department of justice have been placed on suspension, allegedly as part of a clean-up of the section.

By the end of August about 4.7-million R350 grant applicants had been paid.

Health minister Joe Phaahla is on Friday giving an update on government's Covid-19 response strategy and the vaccine rollout plan.

The risk of catching Covid-19 from paper money or bank cards is low compared to person-to-person contact.

A severe Covid-19 infection left anti-vaxxer Vanessa Joubert on a ventilator in ICU for 42 days, and led to her and her husband becoming vaccine advocates.

The SA Depression and Anxiety Group (Sadag) has since January fielded more than 75,000 calls from South Africans contemplating suicide as well as from those who have attempted ending their lives.

Pragmatism will win the day, reckons Piet Croucamp in Vrye Weekblad, and his choice will be made by way of elimination. Most of us vote for the individual or party who annoys us the least.

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A study by MRC and Wits University researchers, with the assistance of sex workers, found that almost 60% of sex workers had been raped in the past year either by clients, police and other men.

The US Department of Justice on Thursday sued Texas after President Joe Biden vowed to challenge a new law that almost entirely bans abortion in the state

Police have confirmed that two men who kidnapped a four-month-old baby on Thursday were convicted murderers who had escaped from the Leeuwkop prison.

The University of Johannesburg has a track record of driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution and artificial intelligence innovations, and has now introduced an “AI robot dog” to the mix.

There were 6,270 new Covid-19 cases and 175 deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Thursday.

A baby has been rescued after being kidnapped by two knife-wielding men during a house robbery in Beverley, north of Johannesburg, on Thursday afternoon.