Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has for years championed the rights of LGBT people in Uganda, where homosexuality remains illegal and gay people face arrest, ostracism and violence.

The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) is investigating the awarding of honours degrees at Fort Hare University.

The biggest challenge for the four men competing to succeed Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta is to ease the cost of living crisis engulfing East Africa’s biggest economy.

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A serial rapist who entered SA illegally from Lesotho and raped three children and a young woman will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The family of murdered Mangosuthu University of Technology student Xolile Mbatha said losing a child so close to completing her studies was a devastating blow.

The N3 to Durban was closed on Friday evening after a horrific crash before the Mariannhill toll plaza in Pinetown.

Stellenbosch University has expelled a student found guilty of sexually assaulting a fellow student.

An Ekurhuleni man who allegedly submitted a fake doctor's note to his employer has been charged with fraud, the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s (HPCSA) said on Friday

If you were wondering if Coca-Cola is a safe substitute for fuel, the answer is no.

Residents of Munsieville, Krugersdorp, on Friday combed a koppie in search of zama zamas operating in the area.

Advocate Malesela Teffo on Friday denied allegations of misconduct levelled against him by the Legal Practice Council.

Ekurhuleni is introducing a debt relief plan to help historically indebted residents and reviewing its threshold for indigent applications, mayor Tania Campbell told residents on Friday.

Matshela Energy, owned by former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko, has concluded a power purchase agreement with the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company for a solar power plant.

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Should those who attacked 'illegal miners' face the full might of the law or are they standing up for their communities?

Mayor Mpho Phalatse has conveyed her apologies to residents and says a new date will be confirmed in consultation with the Soweto leadership.

City Power has added 2,000 LED street lights to the streets of Johannesburg.

The Congo Basin’s peatlands, an essential bulwark in the fight against climate change because they contain the largest stock of carbon held in tropical peat in the world, are 15% bigger than previously thought, according to research published in Na...

Transnet Freight Rail and Botswana Railways have agreed to join forces to fix 126km of rail line between Swartruggens and Mahikeng in the North West.

"Yazi one day sovuka iCapitec App sekuyi dating app," joked one user.

Gauteng public transport and roads infrastructure MEC Jacob Mamabolo has appointed retired judge Jeremiah Shongwe to head the provincial public transport arbitration office.

Among union demands are the evaluation of police stations and their commanders by communities.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday praised Taiwan, pledged US solidarity and said her trip through Asia, which led to unprecedented military drills by an angry China, was never about changing the regional status quo.

The Taliban’s apparent sheltering of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed last weekend in a US drone strike in Kabul, dealt a blow to an already politically fraught attempt to free up $3.5 billion in frozen bank funds to alleviate pove...

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.

Online banking services were down at Capitec Bank on Friday morning.