Some principals and SGBs at the schools in Gauteng that were decontaminated at a cost of R430m say the work done was not different from their own regular cleaning.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to hold a “family meeting” soon.

The container ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal in March was struggling to steer because of its high speed and the size of its rudder, and could have chosen not to enter the waterway in bad weather, the canal authority's head told Reuters.

Nigeria's president has appointed a new army chief, the ministry of defence said in a statement on Thursday, following the death of the military head's predecessor in a plane crash last week.

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 22 civilians with knives and machetes in an overnight raid on villages near the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Earthquakes following a volcanic eruption in Goma, a city near Congo's border with Rwanda, are disrupting exports of tin concentrate from mineral-rich North Kivu province, the International Tin Association (ITA) said on Thursday.

Sowetan has established that at least three companies that benefited from the contracts belong to two individuals boasting Dainfern Golf Estate addresses.

It could take up to six months for police to conclude the identification process of the six people who died when a Putco bus caught fire on the notorious Moloto Road last week.

Five people were injured when a minibus taxi crashed into a Johannesburg shop on Thursday afternoon.

All was not well among the peoples who inhabited the east bank of the Nile River in northern Sudan some 13,400 years ago, as revealed by the battered bodies buried in a cemetery at one of the world's oldest sites showing human warfare.

Priests of Belgium's Grimbergen Abbey have begun brewing for the first time in more than two centuries, with a microbrewery making special editions of the mass-market beer bearing their abbey's name.

A Gauteng courier company this week sniffed out a package of heroin destined for the UK and falsely labelled as "documents".

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble said he was committed to free and fair polls after he signed an agreement on Thursday with leaders from the country's regions to hold indirect elections after delays triggered a crisis.

A senior US State Department official warned on Thursday that Ethiopia and Eritrea should anticipate further actions from the United States if those stoking the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region fail to reverse course.

Daily overloading and total blackouts in some substations pose a serious threat in many areas.

Germany has agreed to fund projects in Namibia worth more than a billion euros over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago, a Namibian government spokesman said on Thursday.

The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Thursday to launch an international investigation into alleged crimes committed during the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza.

A transit employee who gunned down nine co-workers and killed himself at a Northern California rail yard was "highly disgruntled" long before carrying out the latest US shooting rampage, the county sheriff said on Thursday.

Once a week, every week, Rev. Robert Turner leaves his Vernon AME Church to march the mile to City Hall.

The group behind the SolarWinds cyber attack identified late last year is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organisations, Microsoft Corp said on Thursday.

The status of the water supply in KZN is healthy as the dry season approaches.

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