The policing of modern societies requires police services that are able to rely on the expertise of personnel with a diversity of appropriate tertiary qualifications, a panel of experts has advised.

A 35-year-old man allegedly took his brother's car and service firearm, which was used to kill two female relatives, aged 25 and 50, at GaMatsea village in Mankweng, near Polokwane, on Sunday.

Of those leaving the SABC, 346 are employees who opted for voluntary severance packages.

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Iran will not stop its 20% uranium enrichment before the United States lifts all sanctions, Iranian state TV quoted an unnamed official as saying on Tuesday in reaction to a US media report that Washington would offer a new proposal to jump-start tal...

A professional mixed martial arts fighter who witnessed the deadly arrest of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May is due to return to the stand on Tuesday for the second day of testimony in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin.

A cash van was blown up and robbed in Boksburg on the East Rand on Monday by a gang driving luxury vehicles.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced SA had secured 30 million Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines.

For Carol Curry, manager of the Marina Holiday Park, 330 km (205 miles) north of Sydney, the Easter long weekend and school holidays were to be a big finish to the tourist season after a year battered by Covid-19 restrictions.

Western Cape police seized 186 firearms and 3,058 rounds of ammunition in one month as they intensify their campaign to rid the province of illegal guns.

"He dedicated his life’s work in ensuring that young people were educated on human rights," the SAHRC said.

Myanmar protesters held overnight candlelit vigils after an advocacy group said security forced had now killed over 500 people since a February 1 coup, and as activists on Tuesday launched a new civil disobedience campaign to hurl garbage onto street...

Former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin betrayed his badge by “grinding” his knee into George Floyd's neck during a deadly arrest last May, a prosecutor said on Monday at a murder trial that is widely seen as a test of the US justice system.

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Obama said Mama Sarah helped him find closure and better understand his father and heritage.

The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) is emphatic that it has not approved ivermectin for the treatment and management of Covid-19 — though AfriForum said it won a court case which means the controversial drug is “now accessible an...

Discovery will deploy 500 people who will administer the vaccines through its programme, and will establish 20 large-scale vaccination sites.

Today the racially divided town seeks to restore peace and dignity through new projects aimed at uplifting and revamping the town and its people.

An investigation has been launched after Mpumalanga cops allegedly failed to act as a man was assaulted inside a White River police station.

Just 548 new Covid-19 cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of recorded infections in SA to 1,545,979.

Shipping was on the move again late on Monday in Egypt's Suez Canal after a giant container ship which had been blocking the busy waterway for almost a week was refloated, with more than 400 ships waiting to pass through.

Some of the SA nationals are already back home and others have been moved to safe areas within Mozambique, said Dirco spokesperson Clayson Monyela.

Former North West deputy police commissioner Gen William Mpembe and three other officers have been acquitted on charges relating to the Marikana massacre in 2012.

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of Covid-19 says that the virus was probably transmitted from bats to humans through another animal.

The National Consumer Tribunal on Monday fined Up Money R1m for conducting a "pyramid scheme" which swindled more than 200,000 investors.

The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says it has taken over a crime scene in Dennilton, Limpopo, where a police officer allegedly shot three people.

The death toll from a tragedy in Weenen, which saw a minibus taxi and some of its occupants swept away in a raging KwaZulu-Natal river, has increased to four.

At least half of the South African population will receive a Johnson & Johnson vaccine manufactured in Gqeberha, Aspen CEO Stephen Saad said on Monday.

The Midrand mall that Ndebele activist Thando Mahlangu was asked to leave for being dressed "inappropriately" will soon be the site of a "cultural exhibition", the SA Human Rights Commission said.