A road tanker was spotted floating in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday morning while heavy rain continued to batter KwaZulu-Natal, leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Health experts expect this year’s flu season to be far less severe than flu seasons before the Covid-19 pandemic, but more severe than last year.

The rain has resulted in school closures, damage to infrastructure, car accidents and deaths.

Durban father and son Colin and Joshua Simpkins found an opportunity to canoe when heavy rain hit their suburb on Monday.

The army has been called in to provide support to disaster management teams in KwaZulu-Natal who have been working since Monday to help residents affected by torrential rains.

Campaigning in France's former industrial heartland, Macron on Monday said he was prepared to readjust his planned pension reform, which is at the core of his programme for re-election.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter is giving a briefing on the blackouts.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday put jobs at the forefront of his federal election campaign, promising to create 1.3 million more over the next five years the day after his main rival was stumped by questions about the jobless rate...

Eight years after Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa was gunned down in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, the five men accused of orchestrating his murder will have their day in court.

Animals trapped in flooded kennels had to be rescued by SPCA staff in Springfield, Durban, during the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Six men accused of murdering whistleblower, Babita Deokaran are expected to return to the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

Burkina Faso, like its neighbours Mali and Niger, is battling armed militants linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State who have carried out attacks killing thousands of people and displacing over two million others in the West Africa Sahel region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a televised address late on Monday that Russia could resort to chemical weapons as it amassed troops in the eastern Donbas region for a new assault on the port of Mariupol, where thousands are believed ...

National Prosecuting Authority head Shamila Batohi said impunity was no longer a given as she promised major prosecutions within the next six months to restore the rule of law, which she said was on life support.

"Dudu Myeni cannot go around manhandling journalists willy nilly ," wrote one social media user.

Enforced outages are expected to end at 5am on Wednesday.

Nigerian vice president Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday he wanted to run for president next February on the ruling All Progressives Party ticket but faces a challenge from another party stalwart who said he also wanted to join the race.

A woman and her three grandchildren were swept away by raging waters when she attempted to drive across a low-lying bridge near a swollen river in Tongaat, KwaZulu-Natal.

Indonesia's parliament passed on Tuesday a long-awaited bill to tackle sexual violence, aimed at providing a legal framework for victims to secure justice in a country where sexual abuse has often been regarded as a private matter.

Crowds of Sudanese protesters gathered in parts of the capital and other Sudanese cities on Monday, the third anniversary of Omar al-Bashir's ouster to protest the prospect of renewed military rule.

Shipping containers were floating on the flooded N2 highway near Durban’s old airport on Tuesday morning.

The UDM said people's "material needs are not met" and citizens "feel abandoned by government".

A 20-year-old from Alexandra in Johannesburg stands accused of intercepting an email account to swap payment in an Eastern Cape property sale to another bank account.

The army has been called in to provide support to disaster management teams in KwaZulu-Natal who have been working since Monday to help residents affected by torrential rains.

Paramedics are at the scene where a house collapsed in Bonela in Cato Manor in Durban and in which a mother and her two daughters are reported to be trapped under rubble.

Public health experts are hopeful that cervical cancer, which kills thousands of women each year, could be eliminated sooner than expected following new findings that suggest that one dose of human papillomavirus vaccine is enough to protect against ...

In an effort to encourage people to protect themselves against Covid-19, government and the private sector have introduced thousands of vaccination sites across the country where you can get your Covid-19 vaccine booster shots for free.

The law does not give the minister of health powers to regulate complementary medicines, the Supreme Court of Appeal determined on Monday.

Ukraine updates.

The KwaZulu-Natal education department has advised that schools situated in areas that are affected by the flooding should not operate on Tuesday.