Apple Inc on Wednesday avoided price hikes of its best-selling iPhones during its biggest product launch of the year, focusing on safety upgrades rather than flashy new technical specs with the exception of a new adventure-focused watch.

With soaring heat, rising seas, droughts and floods, climate change fallout is disproportionately affecting Africa, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, calling for more financing to help countries adapt.

The murder trial of former Bafana Bafana soccer player Senzo Meyiwa continues on Thursday.

Agriculture minister Thoko Didiza has lifted the countrywide ban on the movement of cattle after measures to limit the spread of foot-and-mouth disease were implemented 21 days ago.

Former KZN treasury head Sipho Shabalala is expected to be sentenced on Thursday, for his role in the so-called “Amigos case”, involving the award of a R44m contract for water purification plants by the provincial government, apparently in return...

"We live on a continent that poses many questions that need serious answers. Like, can a ribbon hold a bridge together?" asked one user.

At least six people were beheaded and an Italian nun killed on Tuesday by Islamic State-linked insurgents in Mozambique's Nampula province, authorities said on Wednesday.

Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi said the court battles are ongoing.

Four people were dead and three wounded after a 19-year old man went on a shooting spree in Memphis, Tennessee, the city's police department said in a media briefing early on Thursday.

Japan's prime minister said on Thursday he accepted criticism that he had not sufficiently explained why he wants a state funeral for slain former premier Shinzo Abe but defended the decision that has helped drag his support to its lowest ever.

Former President Barack Obama and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, returned to the White House on Wednesday to unveil their official portraits in an event punctuated by wisecracks but tinged with history and politics.

The department has compiled a detailed fact-check response to the falsehoods in the blog claiming that a syndicate can fraudulently claim R38,520 monthly in grants from Sassa.

Police have arrested five suspects following the murder of a farmer in Northam in Limpopo.

Tavern owners in Delmas, Mpumalanga, on Wednesday pleaded with  the deputy minister of social development Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu to take substance abuse campaigns to shebeens and taverns.

The Hawks are seeking assistance from the public to trace three bogus doctors,  two of whom have failed to appear in court again after being charged with fraud and the contravention of the Medicines and Related Substances Act and the Health Professi...

Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel ‘Glory’ has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize.

Basic education took centre stage during a question and answer sitting in parliament on Wednesday.

The KwaZulu-Natal education department has condemned an incident in which a pupil allegedly torched a vehicle belonging to a Northbury Park Secondary School teacher.

The robot dog can track and analyse smell, measure air quality, dance and collect data from crime scenes

New research highlights big industry blunders and how cigarette ban spurred illicit trade.

The deputy social development minister’s latest utterances show how out of touch she is

Gauteng health MEC Dr Nomathemba Mokgethi on Wednesday said the department’s internal audit and compliance unit conducted a random audit at Tembisa Hospital in August last year and recommended that control measures be strengthened at the facility.

Twitter Inc will expand its community fact-checking project called Birdwatch, the social media company said on Wednesday, deepening its novel approach to a new form of content moderation.

At least 15 people died in western Uganda after their homes were buried in a landslide triggered by torrential rains, the Red Cross said on Wednesday, as emergency workers shovelled through mud in search of survivors.

Three men were arrested in Leslie, Mpumalanga, following a robbery at a farm in the area on Wednesday morning.

Ukraine's President Zelensky thanked the European Union for confirming €5 billion in macro-financial aid but said the country needed a “full-fledged” program of financing from the International Monetary Fund.

AfriForum on Wednesday gave the Ngwathe local municipality 24 hours to improve the state of the drinking water in Parys.

Sharply-suited dignitaries gathered to inaugurate a footbridge in the Congolese capital on Monday only for the structure to collapse beneath their feet to the barely concealed delight of onlookers, video verified by Reuters showed.

Lessons have been learnt from Senzo Meyiwa crime scene, says cop after weeks of grilling cross-examination

In 2003 and 2016 Daniel Reynecke was convicted of unlawful possession of firearms and given a suspended sentence.