A state memorial service will be announced by government at a later stage

Accounts of racial tension, assaults and killings of Africans, allegedly at the hands of Indian people in Phoenix, were aired during day 2 of the investigative hearing by the SA Human Rights Commission into civil unrest in July.

Eskom’s newly-built power stations Kusile and Medupi are not performing as they should and this is partly why the embattled power utility, forced to resort to load-shedding yet again, faces significant constraints.

The prosecution rested its case on Tuesday against the three white men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery after presenting evidence it said showed the defendants wrongly assumed the worst about a Black man jogging in a mostly white southern Georgia...

Donald Trump's lawyers on Tuesday urged a judge to block a House of Representatives panel from getting the former US president's tax returns, calling it an invasive and politically motivated request.

Turkish authorities have arrested a man considered a suspect of "great interest" in the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, Haiti's Foreign Minister Claude Joseph said late on Monday.

Eskom is briefing the National Assembly on the same day the state-owned power utility announced that stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 2pm on Wednesday until 5am on Saturday.

Eskom will resume load-shedding from Wednesday afternoon, CEO Andre de Ruyter says.

The White House sent an international agreement that requires countries to phase down greenhouse gases frequently found in refrigerators and air conditioners to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday for ratification.

China and Russia have established a space weather centre in Beijing as part of worldwide efforts to improve global space weather centre systems, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on Wednesday.

The embattled power utility said the electricity system was “severely constrained” after the failure of five generating units.

National police Commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole has welcomed the ruling by the Safety and Security Sectoral Bargaining Council which on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of Jeremy Vearey.

The SA National Defence Force on Tuesday condemned criminal activities and acts of corruption where its military forces are executing their constitutionally mandated duties.

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has appealed to witnesses to contact the police.

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo featuring her husband, artist Diego Rivera, sold at auction on Tuesday for $34.9 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting by a Latin American artist.

More than 1,500 members of a migrant caravan that set off towards the US border from southern Mexico last month have been issued documents to regularise their stay in Mexico, the migration authority said on Tuesday.

The blasts in Kampala, which forced the evacuation of parliament, shocked a nation known as a bulwark against violent Islamist militants in East Africa

Sophisticated methods of money laundering and the extensive use of cash are hampering organisations from tracing the flow of funds around illegal wildlife trade, according to a recent survey.

"Why can't Ramaphosa just mourn De Klerk alone without South Africans? Surely he can leave us out of this," said one social media user.

There has been a steady increase in the number of influenza cases from the week starting August 23, with a sharp increase in the week starting November 1 in a number of surveillance sites, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Wed...

Two suspects aged 33 and 46 were arrested in Lombardy East on Monday afternoon in connection with a string of armed robberies.

Google’s cloud services, which provide computing power for many major companies’ websites, have been fully restored after outages on Tuesday caused by a glitch in a network configuration.

There is no concrete evidence that Covid-19 can be transmitted via sex, although studies have said it cannot be ruled out.

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The latest annual Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) violence survey, which was conducted among workers from crime hotspots in the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, found that 80% of respondents felt unsafe in their neighbourhood -...

It is almost time for the annual retail frenzy, Black Friday, so here’s how to protect yourself from being cyber conned and spending more than you can afford.

Several social media apps and internet services including Google Cloud, Amazon, Snapchat and Spotify were down on Tuesday.

Workers will start an indefinite strike on Friday at all group companies owned by Walmart-led Massmart Holdings in South Africa, their union said, creating another problem at the retailer struggling to turnaround.

There were 148 new infections recorded in Gauteng in the past day. The next worst-hit was the Western Cape with 31 cases and KwaZulu-Natal with 27.