The home affairs department has opened applications for the first phase of recruiting 10,000 unemployed young graduates for the digitisation of records, passport security and transit visas.

More than 100 vultures have been found dead after suspected poisoning in the Punda Maria section of the Kruger National Park.

An armed man who tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday was shot dead by police following a car chase, a gun battle and a standoff in a cornfield northeast of town, officials said.

"At the rate we are going, it's going to take us 17 years to close the known holes," said the mineral resources minister.

Former President Donald Trump said he supported the release of documents related to the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this week, including a copy of the search warrant and a receipt of items that agents took from the property.

The man accused of setting fire to parliament is set to appear in the Cape Town high court on Friday.

At least five people were killed and 100 injured in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region when security forces clashed with protesters demanding presidential elections be held in November, a regional leader said late on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday he had raised with Rwanda's president US concerns over the jailing of Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film "Hotel Rwanda" sheltering hundreds of people during the 1994 genocide.

Kenyans crowded around radios and televisions on Thursday, increasingly anxious for news of who their next president might be, two days after voting in an election ended.

A five-year-old girl is in hospital in a critical condition after she was accidentally shot by her six-year-old brother, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.

A city of Cape Town worker, accused of using a spade to beat slain e-hailing driver Abongile Mafalala, has pleaded with the Wynberg magistrate’s court to grant him bail.

The Marikana massacre took place in August 2012 at the Lonmin platinum mine, where mine workers were demanding a minimum salary of R12,500 a month.

Incorrect billing is still one of the biggest issues for Joburg residents.

A woman accused of planning to have her husband murdered indicated she plans to reapply for bail, based on new facts, when the case resumes on September 7.

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The Hawks say they have arrested 20 people alleged to be instigators in the incitement of public violence through social media and other platforms during the unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and  Gauteng in July last year.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for military activity around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex to end as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a renewed shelling ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the situation.

Satellite pictures released on Thursday showed devastation at a Russian air base in Crimea, hit in an attack that suggested Kyiv may have obtained new long-range strike capability with potential to change the course of the war.

Marikana widow Aisha Fundi regularly asks herself: “Am I not mingling with those who killed my husband?”

House sales in sleepy Eastern Cape holiday town hit record numbers

Sex offender is appealing an order signed by justice minister Ronald Lamola to be extradited to the UK

Scientists have identified evolutionary modifications in the voice box distinguishing people from other primates that may underpin a capability indispensable to humankind - speaking.

Estonia said on Thursday it will from next week prevent most Russians from entering the country with visas issued by Estonian authorities, cutting off a popular route into Europe's passport-free Schengen zone.

Police were locked in a standoff on Thursday with an armed man who tried to breach the FBI building in Cincinnati, Ohio, earlier in the day before fleeing and exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said.

David Thabo Dube, 49, who is serving a 25-year jail term for a cash-in-transit (CIT) robbery that took place in 2017, was on Wednesday sentenced to another 25 years in prison for a CIT robbery which took place near Graskop, Mpumalanga, 22 years ago.

Home affairs has withdrawn the transit visa exemption and reinstated transit visa requirements for Bangladeshi and Pakistani ordinary passport holders from 1 August.

Police minister Bheki Cele has outlined plans to combat zama zamas and crime.

Witness says she shielded Magashule and Zwane, and turned a blind eye to Gupta involvement in the failed dairy farm project

The Pietermaritzburg high court on Thursday sentenced Mduduzi Hopewell Shembe, 32, to two life terms and 61 years' imprisonment after his conviction on counts of rape and robbery with aggravating circumstances.

The minister, however, challenged the idea that foreigners were synonymous with criminality