A top Cape Town cop has been bust in a sting operation for allegedly escorting a drug trafficker who was actually a police intelligence agent.

Ukraine updates.

Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over shaky talks to end a war now in its third month as Russia pounded areas in the east of the country and U.S. lawmakers vowed a massive new weapons package for Kyiv.

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A 31-year-old man from section A in Mamelodi East outside Pretoria on Friday appeared in the Mamelodi magistrate's court in connection with the attempted murder of an eight-year-old girl.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases on Friday said Covid-19 infections were on the increase after 4,954 people tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to late former Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki, likening him to SA’s first president Nelson Mandela.

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A South African woman leaving the country for Dubai was nabbed this week with 12 rhino horns in her luggage at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, says Sars.

A protest organised by the SA National Civic Organisation Kirkwood has resulted in the widespread destruction of agricultural property.

Measures have been taken to address the jet fuel shortage experienced at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport, says transport minister Fikile Mbalula.

Advocate Malesela Teffo was arrested at the Pretoria high court on Thursday, apparently for failure to appear in court in Hillbrow for a separate matter.

Advocate Malesela Teffo was granted R10,000 bail on Friday after his dramatic arrest the day before in the Pretoria high court when the Senzo Meyiwa trial had adjourned.

Orders for Hilux, Fortuner, Corolla Cross and Quest vehicles will take longer to deliver due to the extensive flood damage Toyota SA Motors suffered at its Prospecton, Durban, plant.

South Africa is facing a dire shortage of veterinary professionals as only one tertiary institution in the country offers training, says the SA Veterinary Council.

The General Council of the Bar of SA says the arrest of advocate Malesela Teffo, representing some of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, showed a "profound disrespect" for the dignity of the court.

Eskom has set up a team to review the latest state capture report, which found that former president Jacob Zuma played a key role in helping the Gupta family capture the entity.

Advocate Malesela Teffo is appearing in the Hillbrow magistrate's court on Friday morning.

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane will release a number of investigation reports on Friday morning.

The government has also received donations from citizens and non-governmental organisations for relief efforts, says health minister Joe Phaahla.

According to some definitions, but not all, SA is officially entering the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Either way, two things have caught scientists by surprise: the timing of the wave and what’s driving it.

A blindfold calms the large black and white augur buzzard as two men glue a prosthetic leg into an insert on her body to replace the one that she lost.

Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Elias Mawela said early on Friday he did not yet know why an advocate representing four of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial was arrested on Thursday.

Eleven Durban children were injured when a taxi transporting them to school collided with another vehicle on Friday morning.

Mzi Malunga has been appointed as Group CEO of Arena Holdings.

British trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said all women working in parliament had been subject to sexist language or inappropriate touching and advised her male colleagues to keep their hands in their pockets.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is on Friday attending the funeral of former Kenyan president Emilio Mwai Stanley Kibaki, who died on April 21 at the age of 90.

Malnourished children are flooding into the paediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia's Gode city as the worst drought for 40 years has forced many families to leave their homes to search for aid.

The Ethiopian government said on Thursday that rebellious Tigrayan forces are still in the neighbouring region of Afar, despite a spokesman for the Tigrayan forces announcing their withdrawal days earlier.

Advocate Malesela Teffo was arrested inside the Pretoria high court on Thursday, apparently for failure to appear in court in Hillbrow for a separate matter.