The Cyber Crimes Bill has been signed into law.

The driver of the Bentley who was assaulted by an alleged bogus traffic cop says he believes he was smacked and punched because the man could not find valuable items in his car.

The 20-year sentence handed down to the killer of Wits student Asithandile 'Kwasa' Zozo has been slammed by her family and by GBV activists.

British car jumping is back.

Families fleeing a flow of lava from Mount Nyiragongo's eruption in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo said they were struggling to find enough food and water as the UN called for aid and warned about the risk of cholera.

Ekurhuleni residents who receive their electricity supply from the municipality will start to have load-shedding just like the rest of the country.

A rare 39.34 carat Type IIb blue diamond recovered at Petra Diamonds' Cullinan Diamond Mine is set to go on auction in July.

Two security guards have died of suspected smoke inhalation at the Groenkloof Nature Reserve in Tshwane.

Sri Lanka on Thursday readied for the possibility of an oil spill after a cargo ship laden with chemicals sank off its western coast.

Senegal plans to raise $500 million from the debt market to create jobs for young people and finance youth entrepreneurship as part of a response to riots that shook the country in March, a junior minister said on Wednesday.

The suspension of commercial flights at the Polokwane International Gateway Airport two months ago has resulted in the closure of small businesses, while others are now laying off employees.

Debt-laden power utility Eskom has declared a dispute with unions over pay increases, setting up talks for an independent meditation process at the CCMA.

The new Zulu king has spoken out, saying the royal family and the Zulu nation will reunite.

South Africans have until the Friday to comment on the proposed Firearms Control Amendment Bill.

SA’s plans to tap emergency power from vessel-based plants faces another potential snag, with business groups questioning whether proper processes are being followed to establish the necessary infrastructure.

Israel's opposition leader moved closer to unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he officially told the country's president that he has reached agreements with political allies to form a new government.

The ANC's plans to amend the constitution to make it easier to seize land without paying for it have gone awry, because it failed to pin down sufficient support from other parties to push the changes through.

An illegal gold miner who was severely injured in a clash in which four other illegal miners were killed has been charged for their murders, Mpumalanga police said on Thursday.

A grief-stricken mother blames herself for allowing her daughter to leave home just days before she died in a fire that engulfed her boyfriend's shack in Mpumalanga.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s move will clear the way for the government to rapidly scale up its mass inoculation drive

Coronavirus updates.

On International Cancer Survivors Day, Ntuthu Sonjica, who has no family history of cancer, spoke about her journey with the dreaded disease to encourage other people that cancer can be beaten.

The health ministry announced that there were 5,782 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours.

Billionaire Bill Gates' advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp have selected Wyoming to launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the state's governor said on Wednesday.

A Florida man on Wednesday became the second person so far to plead guilty for his role in storming the US Capitol on January 6, after he entered the Senate chamber clad in a Trump T-shirt and waving a red flag that said "Trump 2020."

The Gaza director of the UN agency that deals with Palestinian refugees has been called in for consultation with his bosses in Jerusalem after angering Palestinians with comments they said favoured Israel during last month's fighting.

Prices of goods in Zimbabwe are spiralling again, threatening to halt a decline in consumer inflation, after authorities last week forced businesses to stop quoting prices in US dollars in a bid to encourage more use of the faltering local currency.

Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) have called on the United Nations and African Union to investigate an incident at a border post in which at least six Chadian soldiers and three Russians on a military mission to assist CAR were killed.

Ghislaine Maxwell will remain in a New York jail after a federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the British socialite's latest request for bail.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Wednesday lost a legal bid to overturn his designation as a flight risk, a label which he says allows prison guards to subject him to 'torture' by sleep deprivation.