The Texas ports that had closed for vessel traffic ahead of the storm also reopened on Wednesday, the US Coast Guard said.

Crime scene experts are scouring for clues after the discovery of three bodies in a canal in Sarepta, Kuilsriver, east of Cape Town, on Thursday morning.

Johannesburg and Cape Town are among the richest cities in Africa and the Middle East.

The White House is willing to set up a call for American rapper Nicki Minaj about the safety and effectiveness of the coronavirus vaccine after she said she wanted to do more research on vaccines before getting one.

Police beat a journalist and fired tear gas to disperse a small crowd in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Wednesday during an opposition protest over alleged election meddling, eyewitnesses said.

A US judge on Wednesday said former President Donald Trump cannot delay a lawsuit accusing him of defaming former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll after she claimed he raped her in the mid-1990s.

So rocky was their relationship, he resorted at times to sleeping in his car.

Calls have been made nationally for a protest against the possible plans for Covid-19 vaccine passports.

West African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to pressure the junta leaders to return the country to constitutional rule, Ghana's foreign minister said.

Workers began installing a fence around the US Capitol late on Wednesday ahead of a protest scheduled for September 18, and police asked the National Guard to be ready to help with security if needed.

Flights are set to operate from Johannesburg to Cape Town, plus African capitals Accra, Kinshasa, Harare, Lusaka and Maputo.

Eritrean soldiers and Tigrayan militias raped, detained and killed Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, an international rights watchdog said on Thursday.

The former police officer who stands accused of killing six of her relatives for life insurance payouts, Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, is on Thursday back in the dock at the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court.

The Hawks have arrested a KwaZulu-Natal woman for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill her husband.

Mabe said the party is aware of the disputes in some provinces, saying they are being addressed by the office of the secretary-general.

An investigation is under way into the death of two men and the injury of a third in a shootout with police in Phoenix, north of Durban, during the early hours of Thursday.

This brings the total number of SANDF members arrested in relation to cross-border crimes to eight.

Trinidad and Tobago Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh on Wednesday criticised as "false" the claim by American rapper Nicki Minaj that a person on the Caribbean island suffered swollen testicles after receiving a Covid-19 vaccine.

A panicked mother was caught on camera running after a stroller rolling down a road with her baby in it.

Four years after decapitating his three-year-old daughter and discarding her head in a stream, a Gauteng man has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars.

A 71-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man has been arrested for illegal possession of firearms, including a rifle with over 200 rounds of ammunition.

Cap Xoli Mbele said he was one of three men who had hijacked a white VW Polo at Riverlea on October 30, 2018.

The woman was abducted from her home in Atteridgeville on Tuesday by at least two men impersonating police officers, said Col Athlenda Mathe..

The Hawks arrested a 26-year-old Pretoria man for allegedly being in possession of abalone and attempting to bribe them with R10,000 to let him go.

"You will be given three opportunities - the original appointment plus two more appointments," says the government.

According to a National Institute for Communicable Disease report, children as young as 15 have lost their lives due to Covid-19, and at least 7% of patients admitted to intensive care units have been aged 18 and younger.

A Johannesburg man pretending to be a doctor was nabbed by the police and the Health Professions Council of SA for selling fake sick notes to the public.

Phillips and colleagues found prevalence of probable depression in 63% of mothers and 29% of fathers. This is 33% higher than the usual numbers and much higher than global pre-Covid-19 estimates of 13%.

More undercover footage has been revealed showing alleged “killer cop” Rosemary Ndlovu telling a hitman and an undercover cop how easy it is for her to steal guns from a police station.

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