Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by protesters.

Negotiators were poised to make a final push for a deal at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt on Saturday, as persistent disagreements over money forced the two-week talks into overtime.

Kenya's former president Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwanda's President Paul Kagame have agreed on the need for M23 rebels to cease fire and withdraw from captured territories in east Congo, the East African Community (EAC) bloc said on Friday.

The body of a four-month-old baby was found dumped in a river in Isithebe, northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning.

Police have arrested a 35-year-old Western Cape mother after her two young children died in a shack fire on Friday.

A truck driver was killed on Saturday morning when he lost control of the heavy vehicle and crashed through a concrete barrier, ploughing into trees near a kid’s play area.

Friends, colleagues and family of broadcaster Pearl Shongwe gathered at the Welfare Centre in Soweto on Saturday to say their last goodbyes to the Metro FM newsreader.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to counter US nuclear threats with nuclear weapons as he inspected a test of the country's new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), state media KCNA said on Saturday.

Transnet said on Saturday it has reopened one of the two lines on the North corridor which was closed earlier this month after the derailment of a train carrying export coal.

Elon Musk started a Twitter poll late on Friday asking followers to vote on whether to reinstate former US President Donald Trump's account on the platform, with early results showing roughly 60% voting yes.

National police commissioner Gen Fannie Masemola on Friday appealed to the public to desist from spreading disinformation seeking to discredit members of the service.

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The Mangaung municipality in the Free State plans to ensure its bylaws are amended to ensure all dogs are registered from January

Stage 4 load-shedding will remain until further notice, Eskom said on Friday afternoon.

A 47-year-old man from Mogwase in the North West was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 27-year-old woman on April 25.

Calls to ban pit bull dogs have been mounting after the fatal mauling of an eight-year-old child playing in the yard at his home in Mangaung in the Free State last weekend.

The cross-examination of Tumelo Madlala continued in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial on Friday. Madlala told the court Meyiwa's killers had spoken Zulu.

Health workers at Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli Academic Hospital staged a picket on Friday and accused the nursing manager of treating staff unfairly.

The Special Investigating Unit has failed in its attempt to recoup more than R92m paid by the Amahlathi local municipality in the Eastern Cape to businessman Mcebisi Mlonzi.

The case of the Israeli gang leader attached to a criminal grouping called the Abergil Organisation was held in camera at the Randburg magistrate’s court on Friday.

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The North West transport department has launched an internal investigation into the controversial donkey cart project as the Hawks also started a probe.

The Special Investigating Unit says a German technology company bribed the Guptas to obtain a lucrative Eskom contract.

Three people, including two children, have drowned in two incidents in Nongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal.

North Korea has conducted a record number of missile launches this year, including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch on Friday that Japan's defence minister said was capable of striking the US mainland.

A police officer is among two people shot in the latest shooting incident in Finetown, Gauteng police said on Friday.

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Cups in hand, dozens of children stood patiently in line for porridge and a slice of bread distributed at a camp for people fleeing the latest M23 rebel offensive in east Democratic Republic of Congo.

Prison cells housing more than 1,900 inmates, some serving multiple life sentences, were swept during a raid at St Albans Correctional Facility on Thursday night.

A Cape Town dance centre has added light to the gloomy times facing the country with its win at the 2022 Hip Hop Unite World Championships.