Former DA MP Phumzile Van Damme has defended Sol Plaatjie municipal spokesperson Thoko Riet after a video of her stuttering during an interview went viral on social media.

Police in Polokwane arrested two suspects and rescued a regional bank manager allegedly abducted while jogging at the weekend and held for ransom.

A police dog, policeman and a family member of a missing person were attacked by a swarm of bees in Nongoma on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast at the weekend.

"We laid a wreath and lit a candle at the Guest House of Horror. They shot her at the back of the head here and in return, we came to give them flowers and a candle of peace,” Gardee said.

Eskom will host a virtual media briefing on Monday morning where the power utility's management will provide an update on the system challenges.

A white teenager who killed 10 people in a racist attack at a western New York grocery store in a Black neighborhood had been taken into custody last year and given a mental health evaluation after making a threat at his high school, authorities said...

Lebanese voted on Sunday in the first parliamentary election since the country's economic collapse, with many saying they hoped to deal a blow to ruling politicians they blame for the crisis even if the odds of major change appear slim.

"I assure all qualifying applicants they will be in receipt of their payments for this iteration of the grant by June," said social development minister Lindiwe Zulu.

Think that load-shedding will only be a mild irritation this winter? Think again.

Nigeria's Sokoto state has declared an immediate 24-hour curfew to quell protests demanding the release of suspects in the killing of Deborah Samuel last week, a statement from the governor's office said.

A 23-year-old graduate, who moved South Africans with his tears on the University of KwaZulu-Natal graduates' stage, will start his new job on Monday.

A law student who stabbed two Pretoria police officers, allegedly believing they were criminals out to rob him, has succeeded in having his murder conviction and life sentence overturned by the Constitutional Court.

Their index fingers stained with purple ink, Paul and Tracy Naggear emerged solemnly on Sunday from a polling station in the Lebanese capital – less than 2km from where their daughter was killed in a chemical blast less than two years ago.

White, brightly burning munitions were shown cascading down on the Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol in what a British military expert said looked like either an attack with phosphorus or incendiary weapons.

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A 40-year-old woman has been arrested in the Northern Cape for conspiring to have her husband killed.

Springbok flyhalf Elton Jantjies was temporarily detained by Gauteng police on Sunday on a malicious damage to property charge.

A 29-year old Soweto mother and two of her children were allegedly stabbed to death by her husband while her four-year-old daughter is in hospital after the attack.

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Operation Dudula is no longer targeting illegal immigrants only.

Lebanese voted on Sunday in the first parliamentary election since the country's economic collapse, with many saying they hoped to deal a blow to ruling politicians they blame for the crisis even if the odds of major change appear slim.

NATO is confident that it can overcome objections by Turkey and quickly admit Finland and Sweden, its deputy chief said on Sunday, as the alliance prepares for a historic enlargement in the Nordic region prompted by Russia's war on Ukraine.

Residents of Tongaat and Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal received much-needed water tanks after going a month without water supply.

Former finance minister Tito Mboweni has shared advice imparted to him by his successor Enoch Godongwana.

The City of Cape Town says it has seen a spike in the number of water meters stolen in several suburbs.

The Hawks’ provincial head for Gauteng, Maj-Gen Ebrahim Kadwa, has welcomed a 12-year sentence handed down to a financial adviser by the Pretoria specialised commercial crimes court in April.

Due to a continued loss of generating capacity, stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 5pm until 10pm on Sunday, and stage 3 will be implemented on Monday and Tuesday evening, Eskom announced on Sunday..

Fear and adrenaline were some feelings for first tourists who stepped out onto the world's longest suspension footbridge, spanning a mountain valley in the Czech Republic.

Hundreds of Somali parliamentarians will meet on Sunday in a heavily-fortified airport hangar to choose a new president in a vote needed to ensure the impoverished and conflict-riven nation keeps receiving foreign financial aid.