The Post Office said all items in the same bag as the prohibited item will miss shipping until the next available flight.

Two of SA's biggest supermarket chains have chosen solar energy alternatives as they strive to beat a buckling national power grid, save costs and address climate change.

Load-shedding will end at 5am on Friday as a result of a recovery in Eskom's generating capacity.

Eskom is again briefing the media on the state of the power grid on Thursday.

A neighbour is expected to appear before the Emalahleni magistrate's court on Thursday facing a charge of defeating the ends of justice and kidnapping.

"We have already had about 40 litres of water donated since we posted yesterday. We are hoping to get in at least another 200 litres," said The Bunny Hop Haven.

Police in Vuwani received a call from a local resident on Wednesday night saying the children were at their house after being dropped off on a nearby road.

"There’s still a long road of recovery for them and we should continue praying for them. Their lives will never be the same again," Abdool Sulaman, a neighbour who lives a few streets from the Moti home, told TimesLIVE.

Officials from the Mpumalanga department of education will visit Kopanang Secondary School at Emalahleni local municipality on Thursday after two pupils and two assistant teachers were injured when a teacher crashed into the staff room.

Investment and economic analysts hope to see the new finance minister prioritise policies that grow the economy and ease SA out of its tight, debt-heavy fiscal position.

The SA Medical Association said there must be a choice of Covid-19 booster vaccine after Johnson & Johnson won the right to run research on the half a million health workers who took the company’s shot in an initial study.

“The vaccine does not work on the DNA of the body," says the Department of Health.

Transnet Freight Rail has cancelled 1,190 trains as a direct result of security related incidents.

An expert suggests Eskom could consider staying on stage 1 load-shedding permanently if the power problems were going to persist for some time.

NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday en route to the International Space Station, including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA's future lunar missions.

The shock victory of the Taliban as the last US troops were preparing to leave Afghanistan, prompted a mass exodus of officials and others connected with the former Western-backed government and other vulnerable Afghans.

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The four Moti brothers aged seven, 11, 13 and 15, kidnapped in Limpopo three weeks ago, have been reunited with their parents.

The South African Maritime Safety Authority says toxic fumes coming off a vessel offshore near St Helena Bay, off the Western Cape, pose no immediate threat to the marine environment or to humans.

The Limpopo government has expressed dismay at the burning of an administration block at Tshikombani Primary School in Nzhelele Circuit, Vhembe West District on Tuesday.

One of SA's most renowned designers, Gert-Johan Coetzee, will collaborate with one of the world's most iconic fashion dolls, Barbie.

There were only 305 new Covid-19 cases recorded across SA in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Wednesday.

The Gauteng high court on Wednesday ruled that Mozambique’s former finance minister Manuel Chang be extradited to the US.

Climate change activists took to the streets on Wednesday to protest at the Africa Energy Week conference in Cape Town.

Eskom boss Andre de Ruyter said on Wednesday that the power utility was like an old car that needs to be replaced, not fixed.

A digital forensic investigator and analyst on Wednesday presented evidence showing that there was communication among some of the six people accused in the murder of retired crime intelligence officer Thekiso Hendrick Mogoerane.

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South African tournament organizer African Cyber Gaming League (ACGL) always has several amazing tournaments, qualifiers and matchfinders for local esports enthusiasts to enter.

Men who go through prostate surgery often experience serious and mostly unspoken side effects such as bleeding, erectile dysfunction and ejaculation disorders.