US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Sunday a Taliban decree that ordered Afghan women to cover their faces in public was "unconscionable."

AfriForum’s application to overturn the court ruling about displaying the apartheid flag in public and private spaces has received major backlash online.

De Beers, the world's No. 2 diamond producer, is stepping up efforts to formally track its products from mine to retailer, the company's CEO said, as Western customers want assurance that their purchases do not come from Russia.

Nigerian airlines have suspended plans to ground all local flights due to the soaring cost of jet fuel just hours before the move was due to take effect, the airline operators association said on Sunday.

An Elon Musk tweet saying Japan would "eventually cease to exist" without a higher birthrate set off a flood of sarcasm and anger on Monday - though much of the angst was aimed at a Japanese government many said did little to address the issue.

Qatar's Emir will visit Iran soon, Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh confirmed on Monday during a news conference.

Militants freed around 60 prisoners during an attack on a jail in northwest Burkina Faso overnight, ransacking offices and setting vehicles ablaze before making their escape, two security sources and a judicial source said.

A salvo of missiles brought the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine to Fastiv, a quiet town abounding with flowering cherry trees and set in sweeping farmland hundreds of kilometres from the front lines.

The three people, including the suspect arrested on Friday, will appear in the Mbombela magistrate’s court on Monday.

Mid-year matric examinations will not be affected by the recent floods in KwaZulu-Natal.

China's two biggest cities tightened Covid-19 curbs on their residents on Monday, raising new frustration and even questions about the legality of its uncompromising battle with the virus.

Western Cape organised crime detectives are investigating the circumstances surrounding the murder of six men in Khayelitsha on Sunday.

International travellers must be vaccinated for Covid-19 and produce a valid vaccination certificate, or a valid negative PCR Covid-19 test result not older than 72-hours before the date of departure.

“A challenge for fiscal policy is that it needs to shift into investment and not public sector wages and social grants," said Mboweni.

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Jet fuel supplies have been curtailed in recent weeks due to flood damage to railway lines in KwaZulu-Natal.

Two people were seriously injured and three others escaped with minor injuries when a driver attempted to make a U-turn on the N2 on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Sunday night.

From January to May 2022, the suspect targeted females who were walking alone around the Sydenham policing area late in the afternoon.

Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal accounted for most of the 5,486 new Covid-19 cases reported in SA on Sunday.

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The costs to repair the Wallacedene sewer pump station, damaged when it was allegedly torched by arsonists on Saturday, could amount to hundreds of thousands of rands, the City of Cape Town said.

A motorist was shot dead during a robbery on the N4 highway outside Pretoria after he stopped to attend to a flat tyre.

CLAW (Community Led Animal Welfare) has warned that the scourge of dog fighting is on the rise and should be stopped.

As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday.

The City of Cape Town is embarking on flood prevention initiatives which include unblocking storm water drainage systems in preparation for the upcoming wet weather season.

A chief harbour master who started as a taxi driver in Mamelodi, Pretoria, graduated with a postgraduate diploma in maritime studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) on Friday - and now he's reading for an MCom in leadership studies.

Moscow residents appeared anxious but resilient as the country prepared on Sunday for its annual commemoration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany with an economy reeling from the West's most stringent economic sanctions in modern times.

The family of murder victim Hillary Gardee said on Sunday they will allow the legal system to conduct its work as Hillary, the family and the people of SA will not know peace until justice is served.

Two more men were arrested in Mbombela overnight in connection with the murder of Hillary Gardee.