President Cyril Ramaphosa says R1.6bn has been earmarked for the fight against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF).

In an expanding exodus of Twitter's top management, officials including its advertising and marketing chiefs left the company in the past few days, according to statements and a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

Residents in parts of Florida, west of Johannesburg, are fuming over an outage that affected their area on Monday night due to vandalism at a substation.

The jobs of an estimated 14,642 permanent and seasonal farm workers are at risk after Tongaat Hulett, which is in business rescue, missed a R400m payment due to sugar cane growers, according to the SA Canegrowers Association.

Democratic former President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned that "more people are going to get hurt" unless the US political climate changes, after the husband of the Speaker of the House was attacked by a man wielding a hammer.

Hours after a horrific truck crash claimed three lives on the N3, another accident on the notorious highway has left 10 people injured.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday did not concede defeat in his first public remarks since losing Sunday's election, saying protests by his supporters were the fruit of "indignation and a sense of injustice" over the vote.

The presidential summit on gender-based violence and femicide is continuing in Midrand on Wednesday.

The United States on Tuesday issued sanctions targeting Islamic State in Somalia, designating members of the group and others it accused of being involved in a "terrorist weapons trafficking network" in Eastern Africa.

Nkosinathi Emmanuel Phakathi, 32, is facing 148 charges, including rape, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, theft and possession of an unlicensed firearm.

Community-based ambulance services may be one way to improve response times and to support established healthcare systems. In a recent study, this idea was tested using a volunteer community-based ambulance service in Hout Bay, Cape Town.

Sadio Mane is the embodiment of the dreams of millions of young Africans, emerging from a small village in Senegal to play at the highest level in Europe and become an international icon.

South Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said on Wednesday police must explain how they responded after receiving multiple emergency calls in the hours before a Halloween party crush killed more than 150 people in Seoul.

The City of Tshwane has advised motorists around the Valhalla area in Centurion to avoid the Snake Valley Road (M24) between Old Johannesburg (R101) and Fjord Road as it has been closed due to a sinkhole.

South Korea's top nuclear regulator sees an important role in sharing their safety knowledge along with the plants it is exporting as Europe and Asia revisit nuclear power to meet carbon emissions goals and ensure energy security.

Eskom has reinstated load-shedding during the day after a brief period of enforced power cuts kicking in from late afternoon.

The world must respond firmly to any Russian attempts to disrupt Ukraine's grain export corridor, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as more ships were loading despite Moscow suspending its participation in a UN-brokered deal.

The man charged with breaking into US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home and clubbing her husband with a hammer later told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had planned to target more politicians, according to court documents prosecutors filed ...

Reservoir levels in Rand Water systems have stabilised and increased from 30% to above 60%, aided by the recent rains and lessened consumption due to cooler temperatures.

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union is the latest to express concern about the impact Eskom’s ongoing load-shedding has on matric exams.

Five lions managed a short escape from their enclosure at Sydney's Taronga Zoo early on Wednesday, prompting the zoo to sound a "code one" alert and rush guests of its "Roar and Snore" overnight stay programme to safety.

A North Korean ballistic missile landed less than 60 kilometres off South Korea's coast on Wednesday, the first time an apparent test had landed near the South's waters, and South Korea responded with missile launches of its own, officials said.

Constant constraints associated with not having electricity may be a thing of the past in the KwaZulu-Natal town of Estcourt.

Trade union Solidarity says it will actively participate in the consultation process with Sibanye-Stillwater with the hope of preventing retrenchments or keeping them to a minimum.

The son of Minority Front party leader and KwaZulu-Natal MPL, Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi, and his fiancée were identified as two of the three people killed in Tuesday's horror N3 crash in the province.

Twitter Inc will charge $8 for its Blue service, which includes its sought-after "verified" badge, new boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday

People flock to tidal pool frequented by curious young animal

Mom who gave birth to Limpopo quads now a happy mom of 10 but says no more children for her

Research shows witness protection is only used in exceptional circumstances, leaving many whistle-blowers exposed to danger

The switch-around at the City of Joburg cost ratepayers nothing says Metro, as another no-confidence motion is scrapped