This week's protest in Thembisa — one of many such protests over the past two months — shows the unhappiness in many communities.

China's military exercises in the waters around Taiwan have prompted some ships to navigate around the Taiwan Strait and give the island a wide berth, disrupting key trading routes for cargo and commodities sailing around the world, analysts said.

Hundreds of angry residents living in townships in and around Krugersdorp on the West Rand took to the streets to find illegal immigrants and alleged zama-zamas.

Residents of Thembisa in Ekurhuleni have gathered at the Mehlareng Stadium after this week's violent protest.

About 16.7-million people were without online banking on Friday morning as Capitec Bank continued to struggle to get back online.

Sexagenarian reggae aficionado and presidential candidate George Wajackoyah is convinced he has the right medicine for the ills troubling Kenya's voters: a dose of marijuana and some hyena testicles.

The famously green UK capital is now covered in fields of yellow after weeks of unusual heat and a lack of rain.

Two alleged zama zamas survived an attack by an angry mob in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, on Friday morning.

There are 22 complaints against advocate Malesela Teffo.

US prosecutors on Thursday charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky, police officers for their roles in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was in her home, in a case that sparked nationwide protests.

Senior officials from the smaller group of wealthy nations have been traveling the world to make the case for a tougher economic net around Russia. They’ve been surprised by the lack of sign-on from G-20 states, even if those countries aren’t ...

While police arrest scores of illegal miners for immigration law violations in the wake of the Krugersdorp rapes, the conversation around how to regulate the informal mining sector intensifies.

Tens of millions of people are facing hunger in West Africa’s Sahel region, where conflict, surging prices and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic have spawned the worst food-security crisis in a decade, the Alliance for International Medical Ac...

The US has declared monkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said on Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and tools to fight the disease.

The Hawks have swooped on three men for possession of cocaine worth R400m in the Western Cape.

More than 37-million vaccines have been administered in the country, including more than 9-million Johnson & Johnson doses.

Ukraine updates.

Here’s what’s hot in the latest edition of the Afrikaans digital weekly

Police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of killing two Boksburg community corrections officials in the Tsakane/Duduza area of Ekurhuleni last month.

A man suspected of impersonating police minister Bheki Cele appeared in the Mooi River magistrate’s court on Thursday to face charges of fraud.

The Legal Practice Council has confirmed it is dealing with three complaints against Vishal Junkeeparsad

Police use rubber bullets as community members take it upon themselves to administer their own justice

The Legal Practice Council (LPC) wants advocate Malesela Teffo struck off the roll or suspended.

ANC councillor Mzimuni Ngiba, accused of murdering his predecessor, claims the state violated his rights by disclosing his medical records in court.

Cosatu has accused Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Western Cape premier Alan Winde of refusing to engage with the union over crime.

At least one person has died after a day of protest action on the West Rand, where the community is on a mission to rid the area of illegal miners.

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years prison on drugs charges, after finding her guilty of narcotics possession and smuggling for bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia.

Community members from Kagiso, near Krugersdorp on the West Rand, on Thursday took matters into their own hands to remove illegal miners operating at disused mines.

There is 'solid evidence' Rwandan troops have been fighting alongside the M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and providing it with weapons and support, United Nations representatives say.

US basketball star Brittney Griner says bringing cannabis into Russia was "an honest mistake" after a Moscow court found her guilty of drugs charges.