A man was rescued from his vehicle after it plunged into the Jukskei river following a collision on the N14 in Diepsloot on Friday.

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Former Eskom employee, Liesel Maria Wolmarans has been arrested for electricity billing fraud amounting to R11m.

Police on Friday said two suspects had been shot dead and 65 others arrested during a police operation to find a group of men who gang-raped eight women at a music video shoot in Krugersdorp.

Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

A Brazilian firm selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) it says are linked to physical land in the country's Amazon rainforest has been asked by Brazilian prosecutors to prove its ownership of the land, which is in territory claimed by indigenous people.

Regional forces in southeast Ethiopia killed more than 150 al Shabaab militiamen during fierce border clashes on Friday, the state news agency and a regional commander said, in the third round of fighting in nine days.

Central banks and markets may have dropped the narrative that inflation is "transitory," but there is a strong chance that current spikes in prices are temporary and will soon begin to trend downward, economists and former central bank policymakers t...

Spain reported on Friday its first monkeypox-related death, the Spanish Health Ministry said, in what is Europe's first known death and the second outside of Africa in the current outbreak.

The death toll in eastern Kentucky rose to 16 on Friday as floodwaters swept through homes, washed out roads and pushed waterways over their banks, Governor Andy Beshear said, warning that more fatalities were expected.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of Collins Chabane local municipality mayor and ANC deputy secretary in the Vhembe region Moses Maluleke.

Three people have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of eight women in Krugersdorp's West Village, said the office of police minister Bheki Cele on Friday.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday welcomed the life sentence handed to Tshegofatso Pule's killer, Ntuthuko Shoba, adding that it was 'befitting, appropriate and justice for the two innocent lives he took so cruelly'.

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

KwaZulu-Natal children were traumatised and went hungry when violence spread through the province last July, says Childline KZN acting director Adeshini Naicker.

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A person collecting firewood on Thursday evening made the gruesome discovery of human skeletal remains near a farm in Delmas, Mpumalanga.

About 5% of applicants for the special grant hold tertiary qualifications.

"You will spend the rest of your natural life in prison unless the parole authorities consider you fit for release in the fullness of time," said Johannesburg high court acting judge Stuart Wilson.

Africa is yet to receive monkeypox vaccines as the infectious viral disease spreads to non-endemic countries on the continent, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the number of monkeypox cases continues to grow globally and there have been more cases reported in men who have sex with men.

A trip to the shops will cost 1.3% more than it did in June, according to the latest household affordability index.

Madonsela said SA needs to move away from the emerging gangster culture if it wants to beat corruption.

The DA has rejected Lindiwe Sisulu's proposal to introduce a “50/50” racial model in schools, saying it will not fix or improve the state of schools and basic education.

The ringleader of one of the UK’s largest money laundering operations has been jailed for nine years and seven months after investigators caught couriers smuggling suitcases packed with cash flying to Dubai.

Six uncut diamonds have been seized and a suspect arrested after police swooped on a shopping centre parking lot in Worcester, in the Western Cape.

The KwaZulu-Natal education department has called for submissions to explore ways to deal with the impact of ancestral callings on teaching and learning.

Zimbabwe will double the royalty rate it charges mining companies on the platinum group metals they produce to 5% from January 2023 in a bid to increase government revenues, finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced on Thursday.

Legalising mining on indigenous land and other protected areas in Brazil's Amazon rainforest would lead to thousands of square kilometers in new deforestation, according to a study.