A video of residents looting a Shoprite truck in KwaZulu-Natal has received mixed reactions online.

Shortly after stepping up load-shedding to stage 4 on Tuesday, Eskom announced the earliest it will be able to consider ending the rolling blackouts will be Friday morning.

Three explosions rocked a high school in western Kabul on Tuesday, killing several people, according to Afghan security and health officials.

Yoshinoya Holdings Co. fired a senior manager after he compared the beef-bowl restaurant operator’s marketing strategy to drugging young women.

Cape Town mayoral committee member Zahid Badroodien said the fire had been contained by Saturday evening and personnel remained at the scene to assess any flare-ups.

Eskom is expected to hold a briefing on Tuesday on the challenges facing the power utility.

TimesLIVE video takes a look at the circumstances surrounding the recent violence against illegal foreign nationals and what home affairs minister Aaron Motsaledi says is a "ticking time bomb".

"You people are running that plant like a shebeen," said one user.

The Johannesburg Roads Agency says it has identified and barricaded four sinkholes that have developed as a result of illegal mining activities in the Booysens vicinity after a collapse of the roads.

A 27-year-old suspect was arrested after being found with dagga wrapped around his waist on Monday afternoon at Jeppes Reed border post.

“Regarding mortuaries, we are in control of the situation through the department of health. We have completed 243 postmortems, and are left with 114 more to complete," said the provincial government.

SA-born Hollywood actress Charlize Theron, who maintains ties with SA through her charitable work, has launched a fundraiser in support of flood relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal.

Brendon’s traumatic journey started when he was just five years old and caught up in a home invasion in Douglasdale in October 2003.

Eskom has implemented stage 4 load-shedding after two units tripped.

The deadline to give your input on the proposed Covid-19 regulations has been extended to Sunday.

The World Bank is reducing its global growth forecast for 2022 by nearly a full percentage point, to 3.2% from 4.1%, due to the impacts from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, World Bank President David Malpass said on Monday.

A Ukrainian mayor described hours of "hard" interrogations when held for almost a week by Russian forces last month and said he had appealed to the pope for help to stop a war that had wrecked swathes of his city in southern Ukraine.

Ukraine said on Monday that Russia had started an anticipated new offensive in the east while a Russian missile attack killed seven people in Lviv, the first civilian victims in the western city about 60 km (40 miles) from Poland.

Russia's invasion has damaged or destroyed up to 30% of Ukraine's infrastructure at a cost of $100 billion

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally submitted a completed questionnaire on European Union membership to an envoy on Monday and said he believed this step would lead to his country gaining candidate status within weeks.

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National state of disaster declared after devastating floods in KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape

Thabo Masebe, the acting director-general in the office of the Gauteng premier, has died, his family announced on Monday evening.

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses  the nation on the government’s response to the catastrophic floods in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.

One person died and another was wounded during a clash on Monday between Operation Dudula members and residents of an informal settlement in Kliptown, Soweto.

The bodies of three boys - aged eight, nine and 10 - were recovered on Monday from a stream in Diepsloot, Johannesburg.

A video of alleged flood donor aid theft from Durban's Virginia airport which has gone viral is "fake news".

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Monday there had been 877 new Covid-19 cases identified in SA, with most of them in Gauteng followed by KwaZulu-Natal.

Catastrophic blaze occurred late on Saturday and followed another fire a few hours earlier that killed one man

City Power said on Monday if all goes according to plan, repair work at Eldorado Park substation, which was gutted by fire on Friday, will see power restored by Wednesday.