"We need a basic income now for 18 – 59-year-olds who are without a stable income, to receive a basic grant from the state," said Vavi.

Nearly a month after KwaZulu-Natal church minister Liezel de Jager was strangled outside her home, the police are yet to find the person responsible for her death.

The widower of Eastern Cape teacher Jayde Panayiotou has for the first time admitted to ordering her murder while the alleged middleman stands trial.

Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on November 2. That permits the government to arbitrarily arrest, without a court order, anyone suspected of collaborating with a terrorist group.

Benin's President Patrice Talon signed an agreement on Tuesday to take back from France 26 artworks seized from the former French colony in the 19th century, and said he hoped it would pave the way for more cultural treasures to be handed back.

Facebook is officially SA's most searched for social media platform, while TikTok is growing in leaps and bounds.

The DA said it will be taking action through parliament to address the Eskom crisis.

New capacity must urgently be added to the electricity grid to address load-shedding in SA, not destabilising Eskom's management, says Business Unity SA CEO Cas Coovadia.

China has reported 21 human infections with the H5N6 subtype of avian influenza in 2021 to the World Health Organisation, compared with only five last year, it said, with six dead and many of the others critically ill.

The death toll from a tanker explosion in Sierra Leone has risen to at least 115, a health official said, as scores of victims were buried on the outskirts of the capital Freetown.

A fight among a group of pupils in Medingen village in Ga-Kgapane, Limpopo, has claimed the life of a grade 11 pupil.

"Our plan to reach net zero by 2050 is an Australian one that's focused on technology not taxes and this fund backs Australian companies to find new solutions," Morrison said in a statement.

Police have urged residents in coastal cities and towns to assist in protecting endangered marine life.

Five Pretoria West family members perished while a mother and child managed to escape with minor injuries after a house fire in the early hours of Wednesday.

At least 25 primary schoolchildren were killed when their thatched-roof classrooms caught fire in southern Niger on Monday, the council of ministers said in a statement.

Police in Mpumalanga are investigating a case of murder after a boyfriend allegedly stabbed his 33-year-old girlfriend to death and died before her body was concealed.

With the rise in the cost of living and income insecurity, many people simply can’t afford to wait until retirement to access their pensions.

With the festive season nearing, police in Mpumalanga say they are concerned about an increasing number of fraud cases.

Two immigration officers and an assistant director from the department of home affairs in Ermelo were arrested for alleged corruption on Tuesday.

After suffering nine hours without electricity, a Cape Town businessman couldn't help but share his frustrations with Eskom on social media.

"Hot peppers in your food, though very tasty, cannot prevent nor cure Covid-19," says the World Health Organisation.

Coronavirus updates.

SA’s top CEO’s will gather for the prestigious Sunday Times Top 100 Companies awards on Thursday.

Senior delegations from the basic education and public enterprises departments will hold urgent talks with Eskom CEO André de Ruyter about how load-shedding is affecting matric exams.

Gauteng was the only province to record more than 50 new Covid-19 cases in the past day, latest figures from the NICD showed.

The couple, represented by lawyers from Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, spent more than a year in remand prison while their trial failed to commence.

The national health department said on Tuesday it would investigate the circumstances around a video of South African students assaulted allegedly by Cuban authorities.

Eskom said Zambia suffering nationwide power outages at the weekend was as a result of multiple issues in the interconnected network across Southern Africa.

The high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday heard evidence from a Hawks officer who analysed data on cellphones belonging to some of the six people accused of the murder of retired crime intelligence officer Hendrick Mogoerane.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said on Tuesday that he was not going to be stepping down, despite growing criticism of ongoing load-shedding across SA.