Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday challenged Kenya's presidential election results in the Supreme Court and alleged the tally had involved "criminality", sharpening a political contest gripping East Africa's powerhouse.

The slain teenager was preparing to cook a family meal before she walked out of the home to meet her boyfriend and was stoned to death.

Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria's oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe.

Hawks national head Lt-Gen Godfrey Lebeya is on Tuesday giving an account of national priority offences.

Former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede is back at the Durban high court on Tuesday.

"SA currently sits at 13-million unemployed, biggest casualties being the youth. Cosatu and Saftu should be engaging their government (the elephant in the room) to reflect on the real causes of this catastrophic situation," said Mashaba.

Monkeypox has proved more stubborn than many thought, and governments have been slow to roll out vaccines.

About 178,000 Zimbabweans are at risk of deportation when the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit ends in December.

Four-year-old Eva Grace Philip has become a TikTok sensation by identifying as a Zulu.

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

""For the record, there was no sale of the lion. The Zulu royal family had a permit and professional hunter, including a district conservation officer, who were in attendance throughout the process," said the party.

Dr Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease official who became the face of America's Covid-19 pandemic response under presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, announced on Monday he is stepping down in December after 54 years of public service.

Former president Donald Trump on Monday asked a federal court to temporarily block the FBI from reviewing the materials it seized two weeks ago from his Florida home, until a special master can be appointed to oversee the review.

There was drama in the Nelspruit magistrate's court with the state asking for a postponement to add a fourth suspect in the Hillary Gardee murder case and amend an indictment which was supposed to be served on the accused on Monday.

City Power has praised the police for the arrest of two suspects found in possession of suspected stolen copper cables worth R1.2m in Johannesburg on Monday.

A 37-year-old woman is expected to appear in the Belfast magistrate's court on Tuesday on a charge of child neglect after a newborn baby was found abandoned in the bushes next to a railway track in Dullstroom on Sunday afternoon.

Dom Pedro’s declaration of independence from Portugal was an act of defiance against his father, King Joao VI

Pioneering Japanese woman photojournalist Tsuneko Sasamoto has died aged 107.

The threat of Russian gas supply cuts could tip the German economy into a recession

Darrol Hansen, the partially disabled 60-year-old skipper, called himself ‘The Viking’

After settling the huge July rates hike for schools, the City of Johannesburg is now in a rush to settle law suits against it out of court.

Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi vows to clamp down and that ‘the teacher will face the music’

Gauteng's "national shutdown" will begin on Tuesday and end on Wednesday — the day of the nationwide protest.

The Public Servants Association on Friday reached a salary agreement with the State Information Technology Agency which will see employees getting an increase of 6% for the 2022/2023 financial year.

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research  (CSIR) has agreed to help the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) with technological solutions to tackle cybercrimes.

Transnational organised crime networks and the corruption they create continue to threaten rhino and these networks are also a risk to the safety and security of wildlife and the people living around them and those working to conserve them.

The ethekwini municipality issued a public notice on Monday appealing to residents not to collect and consume the dead fish at the Umgeni River.

Saftu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi on Monday said the decision to hold a national shutdown comes as a result of worsening socioeconomic conditions for the working class and marginalised communities.

As trade unions plan to shut down the country on Wednesday, SA Federation of Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says one of their demands is an increase of the R350 grant for the unemployed to R1,500.

Rand Water is expecting to complete maintenance work on some of its pipelines by 8.30am on Tuesday.