Sassa's online grant application services will be disrupted for about two weeks.

Almost four months after the murder of Sbongile Ditsela in a staged house robbery, police have arrested her estranged husband for allegedly hiring hitmen to kill her.

An Indian Supreme Court panel failed on Thursday to rule on a ban on hijabs in schools, referring the matter to the chief justice after a split decision, and leaving in place a state's ruling against the scarfs worn by women that sparked uproar.

A self-proclaimed occult practitioner is among three people arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing two women as human sacrifices in India.

Will Matome Chiloane's solution work?

Sex workers operating in downtown Johannesburg on the corners of Anderson and End Streets have spoken candidly about the hardships they face there.

Nosipho Mthombeni's decomposed body was found in the ceiling of her boyfriend's home.

For more than a decade, musician Thomas Nhassavele has been busking next to the parking payment machine at Johannesburg's Rosebank Mall, where drivers often dropped their change into his guitar case.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has received bids from nine qualifying companies for three gas blocks on Lake Kivu which it put up for auction on July 28, the hydrocarbons ministry said on Wednesday.

“What does [transport minister] Fikile Mbalula need to be available for 24 fours a day? Does he have an emergency selfie he needs to take or a high priority - TikTok - he needs to see to?"

A 1-year-old Spanish girl has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, Madrid's La Paz hospital said on Tuesday.

A 34-year-old man from Ga-Mphahlele outside Polokwane in Limpopo accused of illegally selling school food parcels took his own life before he could reveal to police who he sold them to.

Known as a "pharmacy of the world", India supplies 45% of all generic medicines to Africa.

A man who admitted to raping his daughter 11-year-old daughter several times but blamed it on “demons” was on Wednesday sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment.

The father of missing four-year-old Bokgabo Poo who was last seen on Monday about 4pm playing in Masoleng Park in the Wattville township of Benoni in Ekurhuleni is pleading for her safe return.

KwaZulu-Natal human settlements and public works MEC Dr Ntuthuko Mahlaba says he plans to meet Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders to see how it can help them to move from informal settlements to  better places.

The DA caucus in the troubled Abaqulusi municipality has distanced itself from the utterances made by the speaker, Michael Khumalo, during the funeral of councillor Phaphama Mbatha.

You’d think a 10km-wide asteroid hitting earth would be eventful enough, but now scientists have discovered this asteroid, which wiped out the entire dinosaur population, actually triggered a massive earthquake lasting up to several months.

Residents surrounding the Durban power plant that tripped on Tuesday evening still can’t comprehend what they witnessed.

Nkosi Msimang, the housemate of the late Prince Lethukuthula Zulu, told the high court in Johannesburg that one of the women accused of murdering Zulu had offered to join him and another accused in a bedroom rendezvous.

Auditor General SA, deputy business unit leader Fhumulani Rabonda has painted a bleak picture of the financial standing of the country’s state owned entities.

Five more licensing officials from Mpumalanga appeared in court on Wednesday in connection with the R60m motor vehicle licence fee dumping corruption scandal in the province.

The organisations teamed up to provide eye tests and glasses to children and adults from under-resourced communities

The Public Investment Corporation has appointed new directors to the Daybreak Farms board to be chaired by Vuyelwa Viola Matsiliza.

Having a few swigs of wine on the job has earned a house robber an 18-year-long "hangover" - behind bars.

The end of blackouts is not yet in sight as Eskom on Wednesday announced its updated load-shedding schedule.

The severely decomposed body of a man has been found in a stormwater drain in Durban

Water outages in Johannesburg have severely affected its residents, with the city facing stage 2 restrictions as reservoir storage remains strained.

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has urgently applied to appeal Tuesday's judgment that rejected her bid to immediately return to work.

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