It took a protest by parents to get the department of education in Gauteng to suspend a teacher who was filmed allegedly meting out corporal punishment to a grade R pupil.

The man had been on the run since the alleged incident on Friday.

The family of a young Scottish man who was gored by a black rhino in northern KwaZulu-Natal is expected to arrive in SA on Thursday.

Single mother of six Nomathemba Mgamama, 62, has been praying for a secure home for her family for the past 13 years.

After 84 days in custody, murder accused Donovan Wolf, of Jeffreys Bay, has finally been released on bail.

The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) has once again shut down a fake message making the rounds on social media, targeting Covid-19 social relief grant beneficiaries.

Unidentified assailants killed 15 people who were gathered for a baptism at a village in northern Burkina Faso on Tuesday night, the government said on Wednesday.

Gauteng police have confirmed that three people have been arrested after a mob justice incident in Johannesburg.

Twenty-two people accused of trafficking children to work on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast have received prison sentences of up to 20 years, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

A gang of armed robbers stormed a Durban fast-food outlet on Thursday morning before making off with an undisclosed sum of cash Emer-G-Med paramedics confirmed.

Policing experts and political parties have strongly condemned acts of vigilantism that led to the killing of four men in Zandspruit, north west of Johannesburg yesterday.

As the world observes UN Global Traffic Safety Week, it is becoming more apparent that South African drivers need to develop a broader understanding of road safety – including crime awareness – to be safe on the roads.

Ndukwe Ekekwe was furious when he heard how much compensation a judicial panel had awarded him after finding that members of an elite Nigerian police unit tortured him in custody following a raid on his phone accessories shop: 7,500,000 naira (R256 ...

Egypt will extend measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, including early closing hours for shops, until the end of May, the cabinet said on Wednesday.

Chadian security forces used tear gas and batons to disperse protesters who took to the streets of the capital N'Djamena on Wednesday to denounce a military takeover following the battlefield death of President Idriss Deby.

Zimbabwe has detected the first cases of the new coronavirus variant that emerged in India, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga said on Wednesday, adding that all travellers from the Asian nation would be required to undergo mandatory quarantine.

Malawi on Wednesday destroyed 19,610 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines that expired 18 days after arriving, despite assurances from the African Union (AU) and World Health Organisation (WHO) that the vaccines were safe until mid-July.

A giant slab of ice bigger than the Spanish island of Majorca has sheared off from the frozen edge of Antarctica into the Weddell Sea, becoming the largest iceberg afloat in the world, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Tuesday unveiled updates across many services, including Maps and Docs, as the company showcases its role in a world that has become more digitally connected during the pandemic.

The Western Cape started off with eight sites, two of which were for health workers and six for health workers and people over 60.

New York State Police conducted a search at the home of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren as part of a criminal investigation, the police said late on Wednesday.

A senior Hamas official predicted a ceasefire within days in the Israel-Gaza conflict, after US President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek a "de-escalation" in the fighting.

Former US President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked New York state's attorney general for launching a criminal probe of his family business, saying he was "being unfairly attacked and abused."

Facing scrutiny over new claims of sexual abuse by its workers, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday urged anyone with information to come forward so that action can be taken.

Australia's peak medical body on Thursday warned the country's residents were “sitting ducks” for Covid-19, as business leaders call for the international border to be reopened faster despite a sluggish national vaccination drive.

The Educators Union of SA (Eusa) has called for the closure of all schools in the country after reports of an increase in Covid-19 infections among pupils and teachers.

Born and raised in the bustling megacity of Jakarta, Indonesia's densely populated, traffic-choked capital, environmentalist Khalisah Khalid has long anguished over the city’s toxic air.

Three months before an unsuccessful attempt on his life with a hand-grenade, anti-gang unit (AGU) detective Lt-Col Charl Kinnear first met the gangster now accused of plotting the attack.

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The family of Liam Siegel,14, who was shot dead on Monday by a security guard, are shocked and confused — but most of all, angry.