“Nis'founele (call us) once load-shedding hits, we have some sides hidden under a mattress. It's a steal.”

Professor Mark Swilling, chair of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, has a simple plan to prevent a complete Eskom system collapse.

The European Central Bank's rate-setting Governing Council will hold an unscheduled meeting on Wednesday to discuss the recent sell-off in government bond markets, a spokesperson said.

A technical problem with the air traffic control system has halted takeoffs and landings at Swiss airports, the Skyguide agency said.

A new sweet-tasting combination treatment designed for infants and young children with HIV has been approved for use in SA.

Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke is briefing the media on the audit outcomes of municipalities on Wednesday.

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday warned that a Supreme Court ruling overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalised abortion could open the door to restrictions in other areas, such as contraception and in vitro fertilisation.

The second day of the search for six-year-old Khayalethu Magadla, who fell into a sewer manhole in Soweto, ended in vain on Tuesday and his family has been advised to prepare for the worst.

The World Bank and National Treasury announced in a joint statement on Monday they had reached a financial agreement to boost SA's Covid-19 programme and health system.

Britain's first flight to take asylum seekers to Rwanda did not take off as scheduled on Tuesday after the European human rights court issued last-minute injunctions to stop the deportation of the handful of migrants on board.

A Durban tanker driver was allegedly hijacked and assaulted by three armed men who emptied the vehicle of fuel he was transporting.

President Joe Biden's top officials and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell were quick to dismiss the first embers of inflation in the spring of 2021 in a single word: Transitory.

Ryanair has dropped a controversial test in Afrikaans aimed at identifying passengers travelling on fake SA passports, the BBC reported.

Republican US Representative Tom Rice, who voted to impeach Donald Trump after the January 6 US Capitol riot, lost his re-election bid in South Carolina on Tuesday, while a second Republican incumbent targeted by the former president prevailed.

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X Bhd will add new long-haul routes from Kuala Lumpur to London, Dubai and Istanbul this year, the airline said on Wednesday, aiming to take advantage of growing demand as travel curbs are lifted.

East African finance chiefs increased spending plans to a record to sustain economic growth as they try to cope with the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Ramaphosa’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said the president had responded to Mkhwebane and stands by his decision to suspend her.

A motorist was killed in a collision between an SUV and a heavy duty vehicle in the early hours on Wednesday on the N1 north-bound near the John Vorster off-ramp in Centurion.

Global media and services company Thomson Reuters has suspended work with a South African subcontractor following a newspaper report that focused on an alleged conflict of interest related to the awarding of a R225m government IT contract.

The Covid-19 pandemic has made it harder to determine if you've come down with flu or have the coronavirus.

Former KwaZulu-Natal treasurer Sipho Shabalala has been found guilty of corruption, fraud, money laundering and contravening the Public Finance Management Act relating to his role in the 'amigos case' involving the award of a contract for the supply ...

KwaZulu-Natal social development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza has called on parents to stand by their children, a move she hopes will change their lives and ensure they don’t fall prey to social ills.

Ukraine updates.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Tuesday agreed with an earlier Western Cape High Court judgment that the regulation banning  the sale of tobacco products during lockdown was invalid.

AfriForum’s private prosecution unit on Tuesday said it would take up the case of a police protection and security services officer who was allegedly assaulted by Vuyo Mhlakaza-Manamela, deputy speaker of the Gauteng legislature, two years ago.

A 24-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man who was hijacked on Sunday evening and taken hostage for more than 24 hours in multiple locations in Durban is said to be “resting and recovering” from his trauma.

A Zimbabwean freelance reporter working for the New York Times was on Tuesday convicted and fined after he was accused of obtaining fake accreditation documents for two of the US newspaper's journalists on a visit, his lawyer said.

Defence counsels for the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial on Tuesday told the high court in Pretoria they want the director of public prosecutions to clarify the status of musician Kelly Khumalo and the other people mentioned in a second dock...

The family of the six-year-old boy who fell into a sewerage manhole on Sunday have been told by rescue divers to prepare for the worst.

An occupant in one of four stolen vehicles intercepted near the border between SA and Mozambique was killed during a shoot-out with SANDF members on Tuesday morning, police said.