Load-shedding will soon be a thing of the past for DA-run municipalities in the Western Cape including the City of Cape Town.

A former KwaZulu-Natal police station commander accused of stealing R108,000 from her office took her own life on Friday.

A 49-year-old man drowned after his boat capsized on the Garden Route but his wife was saved by a father and daughter who swam to her rescue.

A young Limpopo detective's determination to bring down a double rapist has paid off with the man's conviction.

Public health specialists and HIV experts say it is time to treat HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) under one roof and not in silos, following findings that almost one-sixth of HIV infections among STI patients are new infections.

Black Sash has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to extend the R350 social relief of distress grant (SRD). But the human rights organisation now wants the government to increase it to R624.

China's National Immigration Administration said it will not be renewing passports for non-essential travel while the international Covid-19 epidemic situation is still severe and cross border travel poses "great security risks".

SA recorded 2,862 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 days, taking the total number of people to have been infected to date to 3,637,673.

Two men have been arrested for the murder of IFP councillor and Amajuba district municipality speaker Reginald Ndima.

Pretoria police have arrested nearly 50 people after taxi violence flared up this week.

More businesses were named and shamed as the City of Tshwane continued to switch off services of customers accused of non-payment.

The DA's KwaZulu-Natal leader Francois Rodgers said eThekwini municipality and provincial leadership should be embarrassed about the poor living conditions to which they have subjected people living in the KwaMathe transit camp.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus to his official residence at Genadendal in Cape Town on Friday.

The R37.7m fraud case against two Gupta associates related to the Estina project has been transferred to the Pretoria magistrate's court.

City Power will carry out urgent maintenance on two transformers starting next Saturday, and as a result large parts of Johannesburg will experience reduced water supply.

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France is considering withdrawing its troops from Mali, but adapting its strategy to prevent Islamist militancy spreading south may prove complex and contribute to uncertainty in the region.

Libya's divisions seemed poised to deepen on Thursday as the eastern-based parliament named a new prime minister, with the incumbent refusing to step aside.

The government will not be introducing a basic income grant, but President Cyril Ramaphosa said it agreed to extend the SRD Covid-19 grant until March 2023.

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters trying to march on the presidential palace on Thursday amid nationwide demonstrations against October's military coup and a wave of political detentions.

The leader of the junta that overthrew Burkina Faso’s democratically elected government in a coup last month has been made president.

From the US to China, harsh economic realities mean the political will for painful choices is evaporating fast.

China has ramped up pressure on countries not to engage with Taiwan as it seeks to assert its sovereignty claims, and both frequently trade barbs about using “dollar diplomacy” with loans and cash gifts in exchange for international recognition.

The SA National Defence Force on Friday said it had evicted a Nigerian woman who was illegally occupying a military house in KwaZulu-Natal.

Just hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke about government efforts to curb gender-based violence and femicide, school pupils led police to the body of a brutally murdered young mother.

Shareholders of SA's largest oil refinery Sapref, south of Durban, have decided to suspend operations indefinitely by the end of March as they consider selling the plant.

The cost of the services ballooned from an estimated R6.1m to R431m spent.