Canada's government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacities and ban some toys that look like guns.

Convicted murderer and former police officer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu returns to court this morning.

Gauteng cyclists, tired of having to look out for weapon-wielding thugs, will embark on a 50km ride to hand over a letter to police and department of public safety officials demanding greater police visibility.

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The murder trial of former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa continues in the high court in Pretoria on Tuesday morning.

When a desperate and bleeding 17-year-old girl walked into his rural health centre, Kenyan medic Ismail Mohammed Salim thought he was doing the right thing by helping her conclude an unwanted and dangerous pregnancy. Days later, both were in jail.

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi said consultation with affected communities had been “farcical and exclusionary”.

A counter-offer tabled by the two unions representing workers at the Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines was rejected on Monday evening as wage talks hit another stalemate.

Ukraine is still in control of Sievierodonetsk city and its soldiers are fighting slowly advancing Russian troops but evacuations of civilians are not currently possible, the head of the city's administration said on Tuesday.

Homeowners with a combined income of under R22,000 a month, small businesses, non-profit organisations and churches who are in arrears with the City of Johannesburg now qualify for a debt write-off.

It took 56 days and at least 20 phone calls and 20 emails to get SAA to take the money owned to them by a passenger.

Limpopo's department of employment and labour has closed a school in Musina due to an infestation of bats.

Since the beginning of the year grade 5-7 pupils from various primary schools across the country have been working on creative artwork in the form of murals on how tobacco influences their school environment and why quitting tobacco makes one a winne...

Given that there is currently no credible evidence to support a therapeutic role for ivermectin in Covid-19, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority has decided to terminate its controlled access programme with immediate effect.

A delegation of parliamentarians heard allegations that some farmers in Mpumalanga banned farm dwellers from keeping livestock, poisoned water and grazing lands, shot people and stole animals belonging to the farm dwellers.

Dr Ridhwaan Suliman said the seven-day test positivity average data shows a decrease in infections.

Two Hawks officials and a traditional healer who were arrested last week after they were found in possession of ammunition were released on bail on Monday.

Figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday showed there were 1,004 new Covid-19 cases that had been identified in SA in the previous 24 hours.

A man involved in an online dating scam was on Monday sentenced to a seven-year jail term, wholly suspended, for fraud and extortion.

A 45-year-old man was on Monday sentenced to an effective 28 years in prison after being convicted of conspiracy to hunt rhino, two counts of hunting and killing a protected species and one count of hunting without a permit.

A KwaZulu-Natal police officer investigating the shooting of an eThekwini municipal official who was gunned-down at Durban solid waste offices, is expected to appear in the Durban magistrate’s court on Tuesday.

A gang that police suspect is responsible for car hijackings and armed robberies around Gauteng was arrested in Lanseria on Sunday.

Zimbabwe government is set to deploy the security forces to confiscate maize stocks from farmers amid low deliveries of grain to the country’s sole buyer, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).

Thousands of striking mineworkers have camped outside the Union Buildings demanding Ramaphosa’s intervention

The judge presiding over the Senzo Meyiwa trial on Monday said his hands were tied in terms of entertaining a request from the legal representative of four of the five accused who wanted a production company filming a Netflix documentary on the case ...

The pulmonologist appointed by the state to assess former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi’s health started work on May 19 and the assessment will be presented on July 12 when Agrizzi’s corruption case resumes in Johannesburg.

On day four of the Meghan Cremer murder trial in Cape Town, the state called Abraham Fransman, a resident of Egoli informal settlement close to the farm where the avid horse rider rented a cottage.

The Gauteng health department has not ruled out sabotage being behind fires at public hospitals.

A defence lawyer in the Senzo Meyiwa trial wants the high court in Pretoria to exclude the Ten10 Films production company, which aired a documentary on the murder on Netflix, from further proceedings.

The breakdown of a generation unit each at Majuba and Medupi power stations on Monday has seen Eskom announce stage 2 load-shedding from 5pm.