Houses and vehicles were swept away early on Sunday when the wall of a dam burst in the mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State.

Voters in Okinawa are expected to re-elect their opposition-backed governor on Sunday, turning their backs on Japan's central government and national ruling party despite being on the front lines should conflict with China erupt over Taiwan.

Two earthquakes struck the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' on Sunday: one of magnitude 6.1 near the Mentawai Islands off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island, the other of magnitude 7.6 in the Eastern New Guinea region in Papua New Guinea

Britain's longest serving sovereign Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest on September 19, Buckingham Palace confirmed on Saturday evening.

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has launched another court bid in an attempt to be allowed to return to her office with immediate effect.

A moment of silence was observed and the SA and British flags were flown at half-mast to mourn the passing of Queen Elizabeth at the 10th Fort Nottingham Highland gathering in Nottingham outside Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.

Police in Gauteng have released the identity of the man suspected to be behind several arson attacks in the Johannesburg area.

A tight-knit gym community in Cape Town has been shocked by revelations that a trusted coach allegedly used a cellphone to film a female member in the showers.

Mamodupi Mohlala, the suspended CEO of the Property Practitioners' Regulatory Authority, has responded with guns blazing after the watchdog released a damning forensic report on her alleged misconduct.

The Gauteng department of education has condemned allegations of sexual harassment at Ponelopele Oracle Secondary School in Kaalfontein, Midrand.

Nomkhosi Zungu, a 35-year-old KwaZulu-Natal nurse, was stabbed to death and her throat slit — allegedly by her boyfriend.

Queen Elizabeth enjoyed a "warm friendship" with former president Nelson Mandela, who once joked about her weight on a visit to Buckingham Palace - an unheard-of liberty attesting to the strong bond between the freedom fighter and the monarch, Mandel...

King Charles vowed to uphold "constitutional government and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these islands, and of the Commonwealth realms and territories throughout the world" as he was officially proclaimed king.

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane cannot return to office yet.

The eThekwini municipality has reopened 13 beaches after extensive water testing, it said on Saturday.

A former Red Cross Hospital employee and a service provider have been slapped with 10-year jail sentences for fraud.

An immigration official at Beitbridge home affairs has been handed a four-year jail sentence for taking a R300 bribe.

South Africans should brace themselves for a dark weekend after Eskom implemented stage 4 load-shedding.

The National Treasury has voiced its opposition to a campaign by the department of social development and civil rights groups for stipends to be paid to millions of the country’s poorest citizens on a permanent basis.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the nation’s army has recaptured “more than 30 settlements” in the Kharkiv region, with units of the National Police moving in as Russian forces are expelled.

The body of a four-year-old boy, Mpenduko Ngcukani, who was reported missing on July 30, was found next to the N11 road near Middelburg in Mpumalanga on Friday, about 5km from his home.

The second witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Sgt Patrick Mlungisi Mthethwa, on Friday said he did not find any evidence when police inspected the kitchen counter at the Vosloorus house where Meyiwa was shot in 2014.

The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) in KwaZulu-Natal attached a Pretoria property belonging to businesswoman Nandi Sakhile Msimang on Friday.

King Charles III pledged “lifelong service” to his subjects in his first televised address to the nation as monarch, in which he paid tribute to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II.

New York declared a state of emergency over polio in an effort to boost vaccination rates after evidence of the virus’s spread mounted when it was found in wastewater samples in Nassau County on Long Island.

R. Kelly was ordered to surrender nearly $28,000 in his prison inmate account to be applied towards $140,000 in unpaid criminal fines as well as possible restitution to his sexual-abuse victims.

Two suspects appeared in the Vosloorus magistrate’s court on Friday for their alleged role in a corrupt syndicate that duped unsuspecting land buyers in Ekurhuleni.

Media24 has confirmed the suspension of two senior journalists accused of extortion.

Poland is interested in buying power from Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi nuclear plant, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Speech comes as Britain and the world mourn the loss of the globe’s oldest monarch