A group of 10,000 newly trained constables will hit the ground from December 13 to fight festive season crime.

A prisoner who allegedly stabbed Chris Hani's murderer,Janusz Walus, has gone on a hunger strike, the South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights has claimed.

Durban-based dancer Jarryd Watson is teaching disabled people to express themselves through dance.

Search and rescue teams will resume their search for church congregants who were swept away in a flash flood during a baptism at the Jukskei River, near Sandton Johannesburg on Saturday night

Millions of New York rats have been put on notice: the most populous city in the US is hiring a director of rodent mitigation, a new position that calls for a "swashbuckling attitude" and a "general aura of badassery".

The first round of negotiations on a global plastics treaty ended on Friday with agreement to end plastic pollution, but a split on whether goals and efforts should be global and mandatory, or voluntary and country-led.

California farms that supply 80% of the world’s almonds are shrinking for the first time in more than a quarter of a century as the state’s historic drought leads farmers to abandon orchards or forgo new plantings.

A Sanlam employee who swindled investors out of R6.1m in pensions has been jailed for 15 years.

Three Mozambicans have been arrested for possession of 600 litres of diesel that's suspected to be stolen.

China has started taking steps to ease its zero-Covid policy, fuelling a mix of relief and worry as the public waits to see the health consequences, and impact on the medical system, of a full-blown exit.

Four petrol station convenience store employees were injured when a car crashed into the shop near the Pavilion shopping centre in Westville, Durban, on Saturday morning.

Sun City resort in the North West kick-started the festive season with its annual Christmas tree lights switch-on ceremony outside Sun Central on Friday.

A 36-year-old Limpopo man has been sentenced to 19 years for stealing six vehicles from a Ford dealership.

Eleven suspects were arrested on Friday night after attempting to pull off a robbery in OR Tambo International Airport's cargo precinct, says the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa).

In October, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet committed to a range of reforms to the country’s intelligence services. He based these reforms on recommendations made by the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture.

The new book The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations who Profit from Impunity is welcome for the way it contextualises corruption. It shows how politicians and bureaucrats could not implement corruption without their corporate...

More than 30 militants and two soldiers were killed in a clash in Mozambique's northern province of Cabo Delgado, the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) mission to Mozambique (SAMIM) said this week.

US president Joe Biden does not intend to speak to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about ending the Ukraine war as conditions for such discussions currently do not exist, the White House said.

Russia is likely planning to encircle the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut with tactical advances to the north and south, Britain's defence ministry said on Saturday.

Beijing residents on Saturday cheered the removal of Covid-19 testing booths while Shenzhen said it would no longer require commuters to present test results to travel, as an easing of China's virus curbs gathered pace.

The life sentence imposed this week on a man who raped a disabled woman in Maluti, Eastern Cape, last year motivates the police and assists towards rebuilding the confidence of communities in the justice system.

The department of employment and labour has welcomed the arrest of two Mpumalanga shop owners who allegedly tried to bribe one of its inspectors to avoid being issued a compliance order.

Democratic Republic of the Congo agreed to lobby to get US sanctions on Israeli businessman Dan Gertler lifted and pay his company $250 million in a February deal with Gertler's company that the country published on Thursday.

The breakdown of six generating units at five power stations has forced Eskom to implement continuous stage 2 load-shedding from Friday afternoon until further notice.

European Union countries will consider on Friday a proposal for a gas price cap slightly lower than a Brussels proposal that some view as too high, with a handful of countries pushing for an even lower limit, documents seen by Reuters showed.

Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who exposed the scale of secret surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA), has sworn an oath of allegiance to Russia and received a Russian passport, TASS reported on Friday.

Police in Gauteng are searching for the killer or killers of respected young Tshwane teacher Sinoxolo Gcilitshana.

Properties in exclusive locations and luxury vehicles belonging to several people charged with fraud and corruption in the Mhlathuze Water case were some of the assets attached by the NPA's Asset Forfeiture Unit on Friday.

South Africa found itself ostracised this time last year for being the "home" of the then newly detected Omicron variant of the virus that causes Covid-19.

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