One person was killed and several injured after a magnitude 5.6 quake hit southern Bosnia on Friday night followed by a series of smaller aftershocks, officials and media reported on Saturday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded after a Russian general said Moscow aims to seize control of eastern and southern Ukraine.

Live updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Saturday April 23.

A Cape Town electricity official has died 12 days after being injured while trying to fix cables damaged by theft and vandalism.

Funeral directors in KwaZulu-Natal say bureaucracy and confusion are delaying the funerals of hundreds of flood victims.

Hours after the labour court interdicted the City of Johannesburg from advertising the jobs of 130 employees whose contracts it terminated last month, the bargaining council has quashed their unfair dismissal claim.

A 31-year-old man from  Bloemfontein was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Constable Katlego Mokgadinyane in October 2020.

People who were receiving the R350 social relief of distress (SRD) grant will have to reapply for it, the department of social department announced on Friday.

Preliminary estimates indicate the loss to the eThekwini GDP since April 14 as a result of damage caused by flooding is R737m

The first expert witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is expected to take the stand on Monday in the high court in Pretoria.

The labour court  on Friday interdicted the City of Johannesburg from implementing a council resolution rescinding the decision taken by the mayoral committee last year that converted 130 staff from contract to permanent.

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An elderly Pretoria woman, who found her husband slumped over their generator, managed to crawl out of the garage to get help after both had been overcome by diesel fumes, paramedics said on Friday.

"Kyiv is the safest place to stay right now," says Anastasia Kondratiuk.

Italy struck new deals to boost natural gas imports from Angola and the Republic of Congo as Mario Draghi’s government rushes to cut energy dependence on Russia.

Botswana’s president Mokgweetsi Masisi has called on SA law enforcement agencies to work with their Botswana counterparts to deal with crimes committed in the two countries.

At least 31 Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli police at Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Friday, Palestinian medics said, the latest outbreak in a recent upsurge of violence at a site revered by Muslims and Jews.

Load-shedding will be suspended at 10pm on Friday.

Rockefeller Foundation President Rajiv Shah called for debt relief and emergency aid to poorer nations to avert a “massive, immediate food crisis” emerging in poorer nations following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Emmanuel Macron is closer to winning another term at the helm of Europe’s second-largest economy as nationalist leader Marine Le Pen runs out of time to narrow the gap between them before the presidential runoff ballot on Sunday.

Health minister Joe Phaahla says SA has over the past few days seen worrying trends in the rise in Covid-19 infections.

A 43-year-old man was arrested for being in possession of an illegal firearm and ammunition in Gqeberha.

The five men accused of murdering footballer Senzo Meyiwa nearly eight years ago have denied any involvement in his killing.

What started as a logistical nightmare has dragged on for nearly nine months as more than 800 SANDF reservists are still waiting for payment after being called up for military service during the violence and looting in KwaZulu-Natal in July 2021.

'We can't tolerate a situation where children smoke dagga inside the school premises,' Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi said on Friday.

Russia pressed its new offensive in eastern Ukraine on Friday while in the port city of Mariupol, teams of volunteers collected corpses from the ruins after Moscow declared victory there despite Ukrainian forces holding out.

Russia and Ukraine have been at war for two months — with no end in sight and a death toll that grows every day.

A female security guard and a male colleague who allegedly handcuffed a teenager to a pole, stripped off his clothes and lashed him with a belt over R50 will appear in court on Friday.

Sars says fraudsters are contacting taxpayers directly through messaging services such as WhatsApp.

The department of employment and labour's inspectorate in Limpopo has banned the use of some classrooms at a primary school where cracks pose a threat of a potentially deadly collapse.