An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck near Melbourne in Australia on Wednesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.

Shots were fired at a car carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's principal aide on Wednesday morning, wounding the driver, Ukrainian police said.

Brazil's Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tested positive for Covid-19 hours after accompanying President Jair Bolsonaro to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, the government said.

US President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday discussed the dangers of climate change and bantered about the joys of rail travel during an Oval Office meeting aimed at underscoring the US-British alliance.

Five impounded vehicles were destroyed by a fire at the Rustenburg traffic department in North West.

Personal data, including that of a number of African Bank loan customers under debt review, has been compromised after a cyber attack on debt collector Debt-IN,  African Bank confirmed.

The team of social workers spent hours speaking with the 21-year-old victim and she detailed how her father allegedly convinced her that he would groom her as his 'sexual slave', said the MEC.

A federal judge on Tuesday set May 18 as a tentative date for the start of a trial of four men allegedly affiliated with the "Proud Boys" movement on charges stemming from their participation in the January 6 US Capitol riot.

The Johannesburg high court is on Wednesday hearing Western Cape judge president John Hlophe's urgent application to stay parliament's impending impeachment process against him and the process for his suspension by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Discussing oppression of racial, ethnic and religious minorities, Biden singled out China's Xinjiang region where rights groups estimate that one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been interned in camps.

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the former head of the military council that ruled Egypt temporarily after the 2011 uprising, has died at the age of 85, Egypt's presidency said on Tuesday.

MEC Sharna Gail Fernandez described the verification process by the national department as dysfunctional.

The Special Investigating Unit has been granted an order to freeze R7.9m held in the accounts of a service provider and contractor who won tenders from the Gauteng health department to refurbish the AngloGold Ashanti Hospital near Carletonville.

Germany apologised on May 28 for its role in the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time.

Advocate Dali Mpofu’s arguments on behalf of former president Jacob Zuma saw him top the Twitter trends list on Tuesday.

Johannesburg businessman Henry Cock has smashed a Guinness World Record by running 76 half marathons in 76 days in an epic attempt to raise R4m for the SA Depression and Anxiety Group's suicide helpline.

A protester was killed in Alexandra after an operation by City Power to cut off illegal connections on Tuesday.

Major habitats of the plant include the endangered Cape Flats Dune Strandveld and the critically endangered Cape Flats Sand Fynbos, both occurring at UWC’s Cape Flats Nature Reserve.

The department of justice and constitutional development says it is working tirelessly to restore services to the public and is giving priority to child maintenance payments, following cyber attack on its information and communications technology sys...

Police divers will resume their search on Wednesday morning for three young men from the Covid-19 informal settlement in the Western Cape who were thrown into a river following an alleged mob justice attack.

A KwaMashu man who was allegedly held at gunpoint by armed men, forced into the back of his bakkie with them and robbed, was rescued by police on patrol.

The National Energy Regulator of SA has granted Turkey’s Karpowership three licences to generate power on floating gas ships at ports, a company spokesperson said.

Bongiwe Hlekiso, a doctoral student at the department of history at UWC, will be able to trace the rich history of the skirt after winning the prestigious Ivan Karp doctoral research award.

Patients with persistent Covid-19 symptoms should be examined by healthcare professionals who will rule out other causes of the symptoms.

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A labour commissioner for 20 years, Mapalo Tsatsimpe decided to pen a book to educate employees on mediation, saving them the stress of losing cases they could have won.

Democratic Alliance (DA) members in KwaZulu Natal (KZN) were hijacked and had their vehicle stolen and stripped of parts on Monday.

According to MDC Alliance spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere the youth of Zimbabwe will show Zanu-PF who's boss in Zimbabwe come the 2023 general elections.