Theresa Ogbu took two of her five children to mass on Sunday to celebrate Pentecost, a joyful occasion for a devout Catholic, but the boys came home without a mother.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday cast doubt on the 2020 election victory of US President Joe Biden, just two days before they are due to meet for the first time during the Summit of the Americas.

Former president Jacob Zuma's daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla called for Arthur Fraser to be "given his roses".

Grain shipments will resume from Ukraine's Russian-occupied Black Sea port of Berdyansk this week after work was completed to de-mine it, Russia's local media cited local authorities as saying on Wednesday.

Former president Jacob Zuma's legal team says it has drafted its charge sheet for the private prosecution of prosecutor Billy Downer.

Brazilian police have opened a criminal probe and interviewed at least four witnesses believed to be among the last to have seen a British journalist and an indigenous expert who went missing in a remote and lawless part of the Amazon jungle on Sunda...

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

A federal judge on Tuesday gave a Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc two weeks to decide whether to accept $15m (about R230m) in damages over racial abuse at the electric car company, far below the $137m ((R2.1b)) a jury had awarded.

Ramaphosa told the ANC's National Working Committee he will appear before the integrity commission over allegations he concealed the robbery.

North Korea's recent missile tests were "serious, unlawful" provocations, senior officials from South Korea, the United States and Japan said on Wednesday, urging Pyongyang to return to dialogue and accept offers of Covid-19 aid.

The UK Health Security Agency said monkeypox would be designated as a notifiable infectious disease from Wednesday, meaning doctors in England will have to notify local authorities when they suspect a patient has the virus.

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday named experienced National Treasury official Ismail Momoniat as the body's acting director-general after the previous head chose not to extend his contract.

Gunmen fatally shot four men inside the Madiba Supermarket in Khayelitsha, Cape Town on Tuesday night.

A Mpumalanga man has been arrested for allegedly raping his grandmother and cousin.

The Special Tribunal found tenders worth R172m awarded to the controversial businessman and companies linked to him by the National Health Laboratory Service were unlawful and invalid.

Asset recovery is a major challenge for law enforcement officials seeking to reclaim the vast amounts of money laundered out of SA as legal processes unfold to undo the damage of state capture, says Corruption Watch.

Six adults between the ages of 21 and 85 are in custody after allegedly being found naked during a religious service with children in attendance in the North West.

A 47-year-old man who allegedly raped a 92-year-old wheelchair bound woman in Hoveni village outside Tzaneen is expected to appear in the Lenyenye magistrate’s court in Limpopo

A man suspected to be behind the shooting of the 74-year-old father of a former Hawks investigator has been arrested by the Hawks’ National Task Team.

"I am trying to find a credible reason for his decision not to report [the burglary]," said Mashaba.

Agbiz expects a mild contraction of between 3% to 5% year-on-year in 2022 mainly on the back of a decline in some field crop harvests

To afford a loaf of bread which costs around R14, a waste recycler will need to collect 14kg of cans. This as the going rate at some recycling companies offer R1 a kilo.

Epidemiologist Prof Salim Abdool Karim said "hybrid immunity" is the best form of immunity and can be a powerful response to reinfection.

US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the latest to join the pantheon of TidalWave Comics' "Female Force" series, followed by the latest appointee to the bench, Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Ukraine updates.

Innovative Staffing Solutions (ISS) has launched an urgent application before the labour court whereby it seeks to block the extension of the collective agreement in the road freight and logistics sector to non-members.

Elon Musk's efforts to arrange new financing that will limit his cash contribution to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter Inc have been put on hold because of the uncertainty surrounding the deal, people familiar with the matter said.

Three inmates at a Missouri county jail were on the run on Tuesday after cutting holes in the plaster ceiling of their cells last week and crawling to a maintenance door that led outside, officials said.

The National Prosecuting Authority has declined to prosecute its prosecutor Billy Downer SC after former president Jacob Zuma laid a criminal charge against him.

Louisiana has banned transgender girls from joining girls' sports teams, the latest in a string of similar bans in US states with conservative Republican-controlled legislatures.