KwaZulu-Natal provincial government officials joined friends and family of Lindani Myeni in Empangeni to pay their respects to the former rugby player.

One dad allegedly tied up and raped his daughter, while another is accused of impregnating his own child.

The man was treated at the scene in Wadeville, Ekurhuleni, before being transported to Tambo Memorial Hospital for urgent care.

The family of Avethandwa Nokhangela, 15, who drowned during an Equal Education leadership camp at a resort outside East London last week, still have many many unanswered questions about her death.

The family of a 25-year-old woman who was found dead in a pool of blood at her boyfriend's parents' house in Limpopo has pleaded with the police to arrest the perpetrator.

A whopping R102m has been spent to refurbish KwaMasiza Hostel in Sebokeng in the Vaal Triangle, but the units have been vandalised after they were never allocated to anyone.

Protests which started in Colombia on April 28 2021 have seen protesters demanding the withdrawal of a controversial tax reform proposed by the government of President Iván Duque.

Facebook Inc's oversight board on Wednesday upheld the company's suspension of former US President Donald Trump but said the company was wrong to make the suspension indefinite and gave it six months to determine a "proportionate response."

Kenya will waive work and business permits for investors from its neighbour Tanzania, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Wednesday, as his counterpart made similar overtures in a thawing of often frosty relations between the two countries.

The head of Ethiopia's Tigray region government has resigned, his deputy said on Wednesday, without giving details.

Unidentified gunmen killed 15 soldiers and wounded four more on Tuesday in an attack on an army post in southwest Niger, the ministry of defence said on Wednesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that the withdrawal of foreign troops from Libya would be an "important signal" as both leaders vowed to support the new interim government there, a German government ...

India reported a record 412,262 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday and a record 3,980 daily death toll, as a second wave of infections swamps the health system and spreads from cities into the vast countryside.

The California Highway Patrol is investigating why a Tesla vehicle crashed into an overturned truck on a highway near Fontana, California, killing the Tesla's driver and injuring the truck driver and a motorist who had stopped to help him, the agency...

A variant of Covid-19 first diagnosed in India has been detected in Kenya, the health ministry said on Wednesday, days after the same variant was detected in neighbouring Uganda.

Kidnappers have released the remaining 29 students they were holding captive on Wednesday, nearly two months after abducting them from a forestry college in Nigeria's Kaduna state.

Novavax Inc's Covid-19 vaccine had efficacy of 51% against infections caused by the SA variant among people who were HIV negative, and 43% in a group that included people who were HIV positive, according to a new analysis.

After claiming a false hijacking, the truck driver sold the chicken portions he was supposed to have been transporting for his employer.

It is a scene that exudes sadness: a child perhaps 2-1/2 or 3 years old buried in a shallow grave under the sheltered overhang of a cave, head resting on a pillow and the upper part of the body carefully wrapped in a shroud.

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US President Joe Biden on Wednesday threw his support behind waiving intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, bowing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers and more than 100 other countries, but angering pharmaceutical companies.

For Dr Lindiwe Tsope, having been part of the first class to be inducted at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, and now the school's first graduate to obtain a PhD is a “full-circle moment”.

SA on Wednesday recorded more than 2,000 new Covid-19 cases in a single day for the first time since mid-February.

The head of the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that US President Joe Biden's plan to back a proposed waiver on intellectual property rights to boost global vaccine production was a "monumental moment in the fight against Covid-19."

The basic education department said a full investigation into the death of 15-year-old Avethandwa Nokhangela from Xolani High School in the Eastern Cape was required to get to the bottom of the matter as there are lots of questions that remain unansw...

The remains of the Zulu regent arrived at her final resting place in KwaNongoma, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Wednesday.

The Special Tribunal on Wednesday heard how the estate agency which sold a stand in Steyn City to former Transnet Capital Projects senior executive Herbert Msagala, dealt with Sipho Sithole in facilitating the sale of the property.

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng is on "long leave" and his deputy Raymond Zondo is busy with state capture inquiry work, paving the way for justice Sisi Khampepe to become the country's acting chief justice.

Habib will be allowed to return to his position as SOAS director, effective from Monday May 10.

Covid-19 infections continue to spread fast across the Americas as a result of relaxed prevention measures and intensive care units are filling up with younger people