Kenya holds a presidential election on August 9 with opinion polls predicting a tight race between veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga and serving Deputy President William Ruto.

China's military made multiple brief incursions of the median line dividing the Taiwan Strait starting on Wednesday night and continuing through Thursday morning, a Taiwan source briefed on the matter told Reuters.

Wind, snow, altitude sickness and bone-chilling temperatures of -25°C are what a Durban pastor will encounter when he attempts to crack two Guinness World Records at Everest base camp in Nepal later this year.

More than 500mm (19 inches) of rain had fallen in one part of Niigata prefecture in the 24 hours to 1:00pm, NHK public television said, prompting authorities to issue the highest possible level of disaster warnings in some areas.

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the Supreme Court and Republicans are clueless about the power of American women as he signed a second executive order aimed at protecting abortion rights.

A passenger bus left the road and overturned on the R37 Lydenberg Road near Mbombela (formerly Nelspruit) on Thursday morning.

Anger over the recent Krugersdorp mass rape by alleged illegal miners led to residents of Kagiso on the West Rand taking to the streets on Thursday morning, vowing to shut down zama-zama camps in the area.

Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years, but the reef remains vulnerable to increasingly frequent mass bleaching, an official long-term monitoring programme reported on Thursday.

Reasons for return-to-work stress include the loss of work flexibility, the return to long commutes and a need for childcare, according to recent research, says Lettie-Basani Phume, group human capital executive at Momentum Metropolitan Holdings.

Russia's ambassador to Japan paid his respects at a memorial in Hiroshima on Thursday saying he wanted to highlight Russia's efforts to reduce nuclear arms and criticising a decision not to invite him to a commemoration on Saturday, media reported.

A Senegalese opposition coalition, Yewwi Askane Wi (YAW), on Wednesday said it would not accept the results of legislative elections, alleging fraud.

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

An overwhelming majority of readers said SA is really infested with crime from head to toe and called it "a pandemic".

Since Friday, Gauteng police have arrested 130 illegal miners in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg- in an operation launched to put suspects who gang-raped eight women during a music video shoot recently behind bars.

According to a recent study, the effectiveness of wearing a mask is really seen in community settings.

Advocate Malesela Teffo said his withdrawal from the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial was a strategy to "confuse the enemy".

Ukraine updates.

KwaZulu-Natal isicathamiya group Kholwa Brothers received a warm welcome at King Shaka international airport on Wednesday after they were crowned world champions on Saturday in Los Angeles.

The Bulawayo city council has advised residents that the city's borehole water is contaminated by raw sewage and bacteriologically-contaminated soil.

This week’s protest was their third this year after two smaller and peaceful ones

Eskom said it would escalate scheduled power cuts to "Stage 4" from 4 pm until midnight on Thursday due to a shortage of generation capacity.

Nigeria's broadcast regulator has fined South African pay-TV group Multichoice and others 5 million naira (R201,382.32) each for airing a BBC report

The ceiling of a classroom at Hantam High School in Calvinia is being held up with support beams

I only want people to be held accountable, says Matie whose study materials were urinated on

The former tailor and self-taught designer has created a range of toy animals that capture the heart of Africa.

The Asset Forfeiture Unit has obtained a provisional restraint order freezing assets belonging to former head of crime intelligence Richard Mdluli, former head of supply chain management Heine Barnard, former crime intelligence CFO Solomon Lazarus an...

A Mangosuthu University of Technology student sent a message for help on WhatsApp minutes after her roommate’s alleged killer fled their flat in the Mahatma Gandhi precinct in Durban.

A primary school in Etwatwa, Ekurhuleni, was set alight on Monday, allegedly by protesters.

Sipho Mkhatshwa, one of the men accused of killing Hillary Gardee, has been denied bail.

The Hawks are investigating whether arrested Maluti-a-Phofung municipal manager Patrick Mothamaha benefited from circumventing process in the awarding of a security contract valued at R58m.