“This is no longer 1975, when our people relied on primus stoves and candle lights, things have changed," said ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe.

Alternative power is unfamiliar territory for most South Africans, which makes us fair game for rogue suppliers.

Twelve months later South Africans are still trying to make sense of the riots and pick up the pieces.

It took a journalist less than three hours to locate the house of a state witness with crucial evidence in the murder trial of Mthokozisi Ntumba after law enforcement agencies failed to find him for four months despite having unlimited tracing resour...

Long-term migration out of California accelerated during the Covid-19 crisis, with Texas, Washington and Florida as top destinations for people moving out of the US state, according to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Did citizens do more than security forces to protect SA? What punishment should instigators of the unrest face? Will government be able to prevent a repeat of the unrest? Here's what you had to say.

Here are five names that were in the spotlight during the unrest and looting in July 2021.

Burkina Faso’s ex-president Blaise Compaore returned from exile on Thursday, almost eight years after he was toppled in an uprising, to take part in a meeting with interim president Paul-Henri Damiba and other former leaders.

The US Justice Department on Thursday said it had charged a Haitian gang member with hostage-taking for his role in the kidnapping of 16 American missionaries last year.

Has anything changed after the president's addresses a year ago?

The Umzimkhulu community believes scores of people died in the hardware and furniture store that day, a claim the municipality denies.

Haiti on Thursday commemorated the one-year anniversary of the murder of president Jovenel Moise, whose killing created a power vacuum and allowed the country’s gangs to expand their territory and even take over the headquarters of the nation’s c...

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Fossils found in Argentina of a ferocious dinosaur with a huge head covered in bumps and crests reminiscent of a gargoyle are providing insight into the evolution of some of Earth’s biggest predatory dinosaurs, including a curious trend toward puny...

Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday while campaigning in the city of Nara, with public broadcaster NHK saying he appeared to have been shot from behind by a man with a shotgun.

Eskom said previously the metro’s erratic payments over the past year had contributed negatively to its increasing overdue debt.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims of a link between Covid-19 vaccinations and the monkeypox outbreak.

Crypto assets that lured investors of color with the promise of quick wealth are now in freefall, threatening to widen existing inequities in financial markets.

Families of US citizens detained abroad are stepping up pressure on President Joe Biden to intervene to try to free them - some held by adversaries including Russia, China and Iran - but his administration has struggled to outline a strategy.

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Former British prime minister John Major said Boris Johnson should be replaced immediately rather than be allowed to remain as a caretaker leader because his cabinet may struggle to “restrain him”, amid wider calls for him to be removed immediate...

A court in Kenya has frozen more than $40 million in accounts belonging to Africa-focused payments giant Flutterwave under the country's anti-money laundering laws, court documents showed.

Renowned Zimbabwean filmmaker and author Tsitsi Dangarembga is planning to challenge an arrest warrant after she failed to appear in court last month where a magistrate was due to deliver judgement in her application for discharge on charges of incit...

Zimbabwe’s former vice president Kembo Mohadi’s daughter Abigail Millicent Mohadi Ambrose has been appointed and sworn in as Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) commissioner, a move criticised as unconstitutional and partisan.

A year ago, KwaZulu-Natal was plunged into chaos by riots that spread to Gauteng, leaving about 354 people dead - a shocking 237 of them murdered during the unprecedented post-apartheid unrest.

Inspirational Shudu Masida’s mission lands her ‘another dream come true’ experience

The deceased’s mother says they are being sent from pillar to post as they pursue the case

Christopher Tshivule, the man who defrauded the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) of  over R1.5m was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Thursday.

Zulu king Misuzulu kaZwelithini says the launch of his foundation has brought finality to the bruising succession battles in the Zulu royal household.

More strategies are needed if SA is to reduce traffic deaths and eliminate violence against women, girls by 2030, says study