Donald Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of his presidential limousine on January 6, 2021, when his security detail declined to take him to the US Capitol where his supporters were rioting, a former aide testified on Tuesday.

Dineo Prince Sekgobela, 28, convicted of raping three children in Rikhotso village, outside Tzaneen in Limpopo, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Sudan is summoning Ethiopia’s ambassador after accusing its army of killing seven Sudanese soldiers and a civilian, the latest escalation in a simmering feud between the Horn of Africa’s most populous countries.

Eskom says many of its employees returned to work on Wednesday morning.

Offering cheap instant noodles, sandwiches and "gimbap" (rice rolls) for under $5, convenience stores are gaining in popularity as salaried workers seek ways to cut costs.

He also called for striking workers to be fired.

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Applications have opened for young lawyers committed to forwarding constitutional and human rights law in SA or Africa for the Pius Langa Memorial Fellowship.

In the first four months of this year child marriages nearly tripled in Ethiopia’s Somali province compared with the same period three years ago and, on average, more than doubled across three provinces, Unicef, as the fund is known, said in a stat...

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador pledged on Tuesday that his government will "intensify" already tough efforts to combat gangs after three police officers were gunned down earlier in the day.

Germany is in talks with Canada over options to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe via a terminal on Canada's east coast, a German government official told Reuters on Tuesday.

EU countries clinched deals on proposed laws to combat climate change early on Wednesday, backing a 2035 phase-out of new fossil fuel car sales and a multibillion-euro fund to shield poorer citizens from CO² costs.

The party criticised Lesufi's performance in his current portfolio, saying he has often failed to take accountability for his “litany of failures”.

Dozens of people were missing on Wednesday after a Russian missile strike on a shopping mall in central Ukraine two days ago that killed at least 18, while a regional governor said the situation was "very difficult" in Lysychansk in the east.

According to the latest statistics from government's vaccination dashboard, 18.3m adults or 46% of the total adult population is fully vaccinated.

The KwaZulu-Natal family of two women and a young girl whose bludgeoned bodies were discovered on Monday at their home in Sobantu township on Monday said they are traumatised.

How can it be that 22 years after 13 children were killed in a stampede in Chatsworth, the same tragedy is happening again?

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AfriForum’s private prosecution unit announced on Tuesday that the state had decided to prosecute Vuyo Mhlakaza-Manamela, the deputy speaker of the Gauteng legislature.

The Bitou municipality in the Western Cape has closed all its Plettenberg beaches after a  swimmer was killed by a shark at Sanctuary Beach on Tuesday.

The City of Cape Town’s emergency services says a light aircraft went down in lower Crossroads, in the Luzuko area, just before 6pm Tuesday.

Then-President Donald Trump did not care that supporters at his January 6, 2021, rally preceding the assault on the US Capitol were armed, including with AR-15-style rifles, a White House aide at the time testified on Tuesday.

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday declared that the announcement of March 31 2022 as the final switch-off date of the analogue signal and the end of dual illumination is unconstitutional and invalid, and set it aside.

Zimbabwe’s state-owned electricity transmission company ramped up blackouts from Tuesday because of a technical fault a thermal power station in the country’s west.

Public enterprises Minister Pravin Godhan on Tuesday said staff from Eskom will restore the power utility to some level of normality after the resolution of an unprotected strike which began on June 22.

Though still in pain, the family of a 31-year-old woman who was kidnapped last month are relieved they finally have her body, putting an end weeks of speculation on her wellbeing.

On Tuesday two unions whose members have downed tools at Eskom plants across the country called on their members to return to work after progress between themselves and the power utility in wage talks.

Nigeria has confirmed 62 monkeypox cases this year

A four-storey residential building collapsed in India's financial capital of Mumbai overnight, killing at least 19 people, with more feared trapped under the rubble, officials said on Tuesday.

A second case of monkeypox has been detected in SA, the national health department reported on Tuesday.