Having taken note of reports that the SA National Roads Agency has cancelled adjudicated projects to the value of R17.4bn, transport minister Fikile Mbalula is joining a media briefing convened by the agency to clarify the matter.

President Joe Biden assured his "good friend" Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan on Monday that the United States is fully committed to Japan's defence, amid simmering tension with China and the ramifications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Seven people have died after a high-speed Philippine ferry carrying 134 people caught fire on Monday, with seven passengers still missing, the coast guard said.

Western Cape organised crime detectives are investigating after three members of a family were shot dead in Ekuphumleni, Khayelitsha, on Sunday night.

Beijing authorities extended work-from-home guidance for many of its 22-million residents to stem a persistent Covid-19 outbreak, while Shanghai deployed more testing and curbs to hold on to its hard-won 'zero Covid' status after two months of lockdo...

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala was forced to evacuate his family from their home in La Mercy, an area devastated by the weekend rains, during the early hours of Sunday.

The City of Johannesburg is holding an Energy Indaba in Sandton from Monday.

Health authorities said they may have found a third case of the monkeypox virus in the United States and are running tests on a patient in South Florida to confirm if the person has contracted the disease, which is staging a rare outbreak outside of ...

Shortly before load-shedding is due to start, City Power electrician Patrick Hlungwani leaves his usual daily duties attending to power outages and faults in Johannesburg to drive to a substation as instructed by the control room.

Mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe has criticised Eskom’s management, saying he doesn’t understand why the power utility is resorting to load-shedding when it allegedly has enough electricity in its reserves.

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

South Korea's daily new Covid-19 infections dropped to below 10,000 for the first time in nearly four months on Monday, as the highly contagious Omicron variant recedes despite eased pandemic restrictions.

Three people died in a head-on collision near the Amatikulu River on the N2 in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning.

"The December conference has to be a renewal conference, the beginning of a fresh chapter. We cannot emerge from that conference with leaders who are facing criminal charges," said ANC stalwart Derek Hanekom.

News, facts, figures, interviews, views and analysis of the impact of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape floods

The God is Love Ministry in Motherwell, Gqeberha, was left without a pastor at the weekend when apostle Luthando Matodlana was taken into custody after being convicted on a charge of rape.

Nicky Oppenheimer and his family are the 24th on the UK Sunday Times rich list.

Affected by the floods and need help? Here's where you can go.

A Durban family said they will have to start a new life somewhere else after being stuck in a flooded building for the second time in six weeks.

Mop up operations were expected to begin in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday after heavy rain lashed the province over the weekend.

For almost three years a KwaZulu-Natal man broke into homes in Maluti and Matatiele and raped women before robbing them.

The death toll from powerful thunderstorms in Canada's two most populous provinces this weekend rose to at least eight, authorities said on Sunday, as emergency crews continued a massive clean-up to restore power to half a million people.

The NICD says high population level immunity in SA likely means in the absence of a new, more severe variant, future spikes in infections are unlikely to result in large increases in hospitalisation and deaths.

Argentina's health ministry said on Sunday it had detected a suspected case of monkeypox in Buenos Aires, amid growing global alarm over rising cases in Europe and elsewhere of the viral infection more common to west and central Africa.

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or any territorial concessions to Russia, and Poland's president said any loss of Ukrainian territory would be a "huge blow" to the entire West as he warned against appeasing Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ukraine updates.

Power utility Eskom has announced that stage 2 load shedding will continue throughout the week.

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of six-year old Bontle Mashiyane who was reported missing three weeks ago.

As KwaZulu-Natal continues to experience heavy rains that are causing floods in the area, more than 200 people were evacuated from their homes on Saturday night.

A toddler was killed and two men critically injured when a bus carrying a rugby team, staff, supporters and family members crashed down an embankment in the southern Cape after its brakes failed.