ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok will be banned in Afghanistan as part of a moral policing drive by the ruling Taliban, a spokesman for the group said.

Gauteng’s health department has sent a specialised five-member urban search and rescue team to help with recovery efforts in flood-ravaged KwaZulu-Natal.

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter said on Thursday the plan is to drop load-shedding to stage 2 after the evening peak, with it possibly being lifted for the weekend after the Friday evening peak.

The company says its Durban port resumed operations last week and its marine capacity has since increased to 98% since the reopening of the N2 south which was heavily affected by floods.

Van Damme said though she doesn't use cannabis, she supports people's right to use it.

Eskom is briefing the country on current system challenges as SA experiences stage 3 load-shedding.

The rate has increased for four straight days.

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations said they are seeking to isolate Russia from the global economy for its “unjustifiable” invasion of Ukraine and want to increase the costs on Moscow for its war.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said any peace talks over Ukraine are likely to fail, as he compared holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiating with a crocodile.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin held a rare call on Wednesday with his counterpart in China, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, to discuss the situation in Ukraine and other security issues, according to a US statement.

The treatment of a 92-year-old Shanghai woman who was sent to quarantine late at night has caused anger in China, underscoring the frustration that many are feeling under the nation’s strict Covid Zero rules.

The case of six people accused of corruption in the R15.3m Talana shacks tender has been delayed to set a trial date.

A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russian forces will seize the last main stronghold of resistance in the besieged city of Mariupol on Thursday after Ukraine proposed talks on evacuating troops and civilians there.

Leading academics and surgeons have raised concerns about the country’s strict stance of not reusing some single-use medical devices, labelling the early discarding of some of these very expensive devices as not only wastage, but as a threat to the...

“The act allows up to three months and if it needs to be terminated early, it can be. It also allows for an extension. So the initial period will be three months, and then an assessment will be made to extend or not,” said Dlamini-Zuma.

A team of Tshwane emergency services search and rescue technicians has been deployed to KwaZulu-Natal as part of the Urban Search and Rescue SA (USAR-SA01) team to support disaster relief efforts in the flood-stricken province.

SA’s power shortage could be fixed in two years if the government removes all the regulatory hurdles slowing down the private generation and sale of power, says energy expert Chris Yelland.

All travellers entering SA are required to present proof of vaccination or a negative PCR test not older than 72 hours

UCT said the R52m funding will see the establishment of centres of research excellence in four African countries with the aim of saving lives of patients who undergo life-saving surgery.

It will cost at least R91.1m to replant eroded crops and repair damaged infrastructure caused by heavy rains in KwaZulu-Natal.

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Zimbabwe's national airline, Air Zimbabwe, been banned from flying in EU airspace because it does not meet international safety standards.

Two men who were arrested inside the Kruger National Park in connection with rhino poaching-related activities last year have each been handed an effective 19-year jail term.

Hours after declaring imminent success in resolving the Eldorado Park power crisis, efforts by City Power to restore power to the area hit a snag on Wednesday afternoon when a transformer blew up at the substation when it was ready to be phased in.

Police minister Bheki Cele visited Soweto on Wednesday after a shooting on Monday left one person dead and four others reportedly injured.

The body of a girl, believed to be about six years old, was recovered at the foot of uMzinyathi Falls, north of Durban, on Tuesday.

The water level of the Vaal Dam rose to 115% on Wednesday, prompting authorities to open eight sluice gates.

Efforts to restore power to the greater Eldorado Park area after the local substation blew up and caught fire on Good Friday are finally succeeding as technicians battle against the additional challenges of load-shedding, cold weather and cable theft...

A company in Gqeberha that sold counterfeit Volkswagen goods was convicted and fined R17,000 by an Eastern Cape court this week.