Nigeria's military is urging people in three northwestern states to leave forested areas ahead of a bombing campaign targeting bandits and terrorists, according to local broadcast stations and a military official.

"Eskom's biggest asset is its plant operators, artisans, technicians and engineers. Unfortunately, these feel disconnected from [CEO] Andre de Ruyter and [COO] Jan Oberholzer," said the former Eskom CEO.

Hospitals in SA are buckling under the strain of load-shedding, leaving staff unable to perform emergency surgeries timeously and putting the lives of patients at risk, says the Health Professions Council.

The City of Johannesburg is asking the National Energy Regulator to limit the suggested increase to electricity tariffs to 18.4% at the most.

Former Chinese Justice Minister Fu Zhenghua, who had led several high-profile investigations into corruption, has been jailed for life for accepting bribes, state media said on Thursday, as a purge of officials intensified ahead of a key Communist Pa...

Hilton Trollip, associate at the Electricity Systems Research Group of UCT, addresses key questions about the energy crisis.

"When there is load-shedding clients don't come in to get haircuts or their hair washed. It is frustrating for a business owner," says Braamfontein-based hair salon owner Nigel Abdullahi,

An attorney arrested for allegedly defrauding her client out of a R1.8m Road Accident Fund claim payout has been released on bail of R25,000 at the Middelburg magistrate’s court in Mpumalanga.

Eastern Cape traffic official Sonica Esmeralda Smith, 42, was fatally shot and disarmed in broad daylight on Wednesday, allegedly by four men who attacked a team doing vehicle checkpoints.

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Tsoarelo Malakoane, a former Free State head of department of sports, arts and culture, five other people and two companies appeared before the Welkom magistrate’s court to face fraud and corruption charges.

“We just need political will and decisiveness from the government. I can lead this and have it all done in five months, send me.”

Surging rates of murder, extortion and kidnapping are among signs that crime is posing an “existential” threat to SA, according to a report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.

The SA Human Rights Commission says it has received an apology from former Black First Land First deputy secretary-general Zwelakhe Dubasi after an equality court judgment in March.

Public enterprises deputy director-general Jacky Molisane says regulatory bodies are working on the deal

A Durban police officer accused of killing a suspect and hiding his body said on Wednesday there had been two attempts on his life since his incarceration.

Former US President Donald Trump, three of his adult children and his family company were sued on Wednesday for what New York state's attorney general called a decade of fraudulent misstatements of the values of real estate properties to secure favor...

The disaster killed 865 animals belonging to 49 farmers, says the Free State department of agriculture and rural development

A bigger and better Checkers Hyper officially opened at the rebuilt Brookside mall in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday, 14 months after the shop was destroyed by arsonists during the July 2021 unrest.

Government has proposed temporarily extending the shark cage diving footprint in False Bay to a site less than a kilometre from a popular swimming beach on the Cape Peninsula.

Sarele ‘Lehlanya’ Sello says he and his co-accused were as surprised as everyone else when they discovered they were wanted

The senior state advocate believes the R90,000 Zuma has put up is inadequate surety to cover costs of a 10-day trial

The George regional court in the Western Cape on Wednesday handed heavy sentences to a well-known businessman and his company after their conviction for fraud and failure to submit income tax and VAT returns.

Iranian authorities said three people, including a member of the security forces, were killed on Tuesday during unrest sweeping the country as anger at the death of a woman in the custody of morality police fuelled protests for a fifth day.

Former acting national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane and his co-accused, Godfrey Mahwayi, Indanathan Kistiah, Maanda Obert Nemutanzhela, Avendra Naidoo, Brainwave Projects 1323CC (as represented by accused two) and Agnes Makhele were on Wedne...

Russia's opposition on Wednesday called for protests against President Vladimir Putin after he ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists for what Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny said was a failing criminal war.

The US military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the Al-Shabaab militant group in an air strike in Somalia's central Hiran region, where the army and allied forces have launched an offensive against the insurgents in the last month.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday criticised fellow leaders who extend term limits to cling to power, saying this was having a "corrosive" effect, and promised free and fair elections when the country elects his successor in February.

The SA National Editors’ Forum has called on Media24 to be transparent about the outcome of the investigation relating to the suspension of two reporters alleged to have breached the editorial ethics code.

The high court in Johannesburg on Wednesday sentenced Siyabonga Nkosinathi Mzolo and Mfiliseni Mahlaba for the murder of their friend, Mduduzi Mcambi, over a car trade dispute four years ago.