Sasha Lee Naidoo, 29, spoke to TimesLIVE about the harrowing ordeal she, her family and partner went through last Friday night after they were hijacked in Villiers in Free State and taken to an open veld.

An Ethiopian government jet bombed the capital of northern Tigray region on Thursday, with one doctor reporting 10 deaths in the latest casualties of a year-long war.

This year's festive season could be a booze-less one for many, as SA continues to face issues with alcohol supply.

A Cambridge University college and a Paris museum on Wednesday handed back cultural artefacts looted from West Africa during the colonial era, setting a precedent that will pressure other Western institutions to return similarly stolen works.

Just over a week ago, SA was shaken by the kidnapping of four boys.

Only five African countries will meet the target of fully vaccinating 40% of their populations against Covid-19 unless the pace of inoculations accelerates across the continent, World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

President Joe Biden's meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Friday is an opportunity to make progress on climate and poverty, as well as bring some clarity to the difficult issue of abortion, say some US Catholics.

Pop-up vaccination sites will operate at 1,000 voting stations on Monday.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla provides updates on the vaccine rollout in SA and Covid-19

Funding increased from R20bn in 2018 to R42bn in 2021, said higher education minister Blade Nzimande during a media briefing on Thursday.

The killing allegedly occurred over a cellphone dispute at a school in Harrismith.

The ANC wants to trick you into thinking that the party and the state are not identical.

As the number of fully vaccinated people continues to grow in SA, questions about why some people are still becoming infected with Covid-19 are thrust into the spotlight.

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Long-standing structural inequalities, political entrepreneurs and Covid-19 fuelled the riots that left more than 300 dead in an outburst of violence in July.

"The only evidence that existed at the time was a report that had been made by the alleged father and he had said that his wife had told him that she gave birth to decuplets."

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would rebrand as Meta

SA recorded 533 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Thursday.

The National Prosecuting Authority said on Thursday that most of the accused  Nigerians are in SA illegally.

Load-shedding will be downgraded to stage 3 from 9pm on Thursday.

The parties said they believed the relationship between the king and Swazi society had broken down.

The SA Weather Service said on Thursday that it would be "mostly sunny" on election day, although some parts of the country would be wet and windy.

The three men found guilty of murdering 13-year-old Gabisile Shabane who lived with albinism have been handed life sentences.

The coronavirus has overtaken cancer as well as heart and artery claims, which in previous years were the main causes of death.

A pilot has been killed after an aeroplane crash in Pretoria on Thursday afternoon.

Izak Haarhoff left his small home town to study medicine at Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha, where he overcame cultural and language barriers to embrace his new home.

'There are solutions and the time for fire drills is over. This is not a fire drill. This is a real fire,' says energy expert Clyde Mallinson.

Taxi conductor Sabelo Dlamini was allegedly shot by Eswatini police on October 20, the latest casualty of months of civil unrest in the tiny landlocked nation.

The Gauteng health department pays R450,000 a month for repairs and maintenance of CCTV equipment.