In SA the treatment gap for children and adolescents is about 90% and only one in 10 children with a treatable mental health disorder is able to access care.

While the youth unemployment rate remains a persistent problem in SA some entities are doing their bit to help young people find jobs.

A search for six-year-old Khayalethu Magadla reached its third day on Wednesday as officials probed a sewer split chamber in Klipspruit that could be the last hope for rescuers to find the little boy.

As the grim reality of water-shedding hits home in the Kouga local municipality in the Eastern Cape, desperate measures to stop the area from completely drying up are under way, along with a strategy that will see the return of proper supply in about...

Another truck blockade has resulted in Van Reenen's Pass on the N3 being closed on Thursday morning.

A higher proportion of young people between 18 and 24 are receiving grants than the population as a whole according to a Khayabus study that Ipsos undertook.

Activists argue that the school curriculum is misguided, African languages are overlooked and language problems are silencing pupils.

Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko took a group of pupils from two schools in Tshwane to Baviaanspoort prison on Wednesday to meet young offenders.

The family members of the 15 people who died when a bus and truck collided in Tshwane on the M17 last week said they were shattered by the loss of their breadwinners.

The Motsepe Foundation and RCL Foods will provide funding of about R70m in farming projects involving rural and traditional communities in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, they said on Wednesday.

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed an application by the public protector for leave to appeal against a high court judgment which set aside her report on the early retirement of SA Revenue Service official Ivan Pillay.

A matric pupil from Umlazi in KwaZulu-Natal who applied for an identity document in February was shocked to discover he had "died of natural causes" in another province.

Police in Gonubie, East London, have opened an inquest docket after the body of enduro biker Nicolas Klingekhoeffer, 37, was found by a farmworker on Wednesday morning.

Prolonged power cuts this week forced Zimbabwe's premier five-star hotel to inform guests it could not provide hot water and air conditioning.

Former Durban-based police officer Col Rajen Aiyer, who was fired from SAPS in 2018 after a complaint of intimidation, has been arrested and charged criminally related to the same allegations.

“I am grateful to God my daughter has returned," says a mother whose worst fears were realised when her 30-year-old daughter was allegedly kidnapped on Monday.

Levels of bullying, victimisation and school violence in SA are among the highest in the world, placing a heavy burden on mental health of children according to the latest Child Gauge.

As the government struggles to provide sufficient electricity, public transport and other basic services, the country’s main tourist hub is increasingly going it alone.

Ukraine ignored a Russian ultimatum to surrender the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday as NATO defence ministers gathered in Brussels to discuss sending more heavy weapons to replenish Kyiv's dwindling stocks.

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In a post, Nando's joked that load-shedding was a proudly South African export.

For more than a decade the family of slain cycling champion Etienne van Wyk waited, hoping for justice to be served while his killer apparently forged a new life in a town about two hours away from the crime scene in Mpumalanga.

Drivers around the world are tolerating record-high prices for road fuels, as mobility wins out for now over other spending in squeezed household budgets, data showed.

Australia's energy market operator took the extraordinary step on Wednesday of suspending the electricity spot market across eastern Australia to ensure it can secure a reliable supply of power, amid a string of outages at coal-fired plants.

Former spy boss Arthur Fraser says he has furnished the Hawks with additional information and details on "farmgate".

Germany, Denmark, Slovenia and seven other European Union countries on Wednesday warned of attempts to weaken the bloc's climate change policies, which they said are pushing negotiators towards deals that could thwart the region's green goals.

The case against the three police officers arrested in connection with the murder of Eldorado Park teenager Nathaniel Julies has been postponed to August.

A legal challenge is being mounted against the home affairs ministry's decision to terminate the permit system allowing Zimbabweans to live legally in SA.

Seven men have been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment each after pleading guilty to tampering with, damaging and destroying essential Transnet railway infrastructure.

The flood of venture capital into African tech companies over the past three years is drying up as western investors retreat amid the global market downturn.