A Buffalo City municipality cashier and a house buyer have been hauled to court for allegedly trying to manipulate the council system to clear a R100,000 rates debt.

An accountant who stole R4.1m from a Western Cape municipality has been handed an eight-year jail sentence.

Geraniums in the Western Cape are blooming nearly 12 days earlier than they did a century ago due to climate change.

Visitors from around the world will soon be flying back into Cape Town, but not in the way you think.

A week before an attempt to throw a hand grenade at his house in November 2019, anti-gang unit detective Lt-Col Charl Kinnear’s life was already in mortal danger.

A fired teacher will collect R370,000 back pay and return to her job after an arbitrator said colleagues and pupils conspired to get rid of her.

A losing bidder in a SA tender for the provision of 2,000 megawatts of power is seeking to interdict the winners from completing their agreements.

There is a "real possibility" that the Johnson & Johnson vaccines ready to be distributed to South Africans from the Gqebherha plant will not be suitable for use.

SA recorded just over 8,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Friday night.

They were threatened with “banishment” and told they were  “turning against the king”. This was the evidence of how some people living on land belonging to the Ingonyama Trust were forced into signing lease agreements which were never proper...

Two years after local emir Djibril Diallo fled his home in northern Burkina Faso following death threats from Islamist militants, he received an unexpected request: to return and take part in peace talks with the same people who wanted him dead.

Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region has taken a first step towards banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in a country where almost all women and girls are forced to undergo the internationally condemned practice.

Zambia's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that President Edgar Lungu can stand for re-election in August, throwing out a second opposition challenge to his eligibility on the basis of the constitutional two-term limit.

With electricity power constraints having "eased", Eskom said on Friday that load-shedding would be suspended from 8pm.

Almost 10,000 Mozambicans have been forcibly removed from Tanzania so far this year after fleeing a deadly Islamist insurgency in their homeland, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency said on Friday.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, the mother of the so-called “Thembisa 10" babies, is not missing, as was reported earlier on Friday.

The SA health ministry said it is "waiting with bated breath" the formal announcement from the FDA over the fate of the vaccines.

In the latest spat between two of SA's most prominent religious leaders, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein has called on Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to "condemn terrorists without caveats".

Thembani Hastings Mqhayi, 55, claims the national flag was "plagiarised" from his original work, and that the design was erroneously credited to Frederick Brownell.

The National Union of Mineworkers says it is deeply concerned about the recent work stoppages at Richards Bay Minerals in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

Aubrey Manaka has been handed two life sentences for the rape and murder of 21-year-old Capricorn TVET college student Precious Ramabulana.

Many hospital facilities in Gauteng 'overwhelmed with the increase in Covid-19 positive patients', says Tembisa Hospital acting CEO Dr Ashley Mthunzi.

Cape Town’s DF Malan High has issued a public apology after pupils were banned from staging gay pride events at the school.

Tunisian environmentalists are trying to fight pollution damage along their country's Mediterranean shores by installing artificial reefs to encourage sea life.

A grade 7 pupil died from burns sustained when he attempted to mimic a video seen on a social media app, which showed sanitiser being set alight.

China has punished 27 government officials deemed responsible for last month's ultra-marathon deaths, the state-run People's Daily said on Friday, one of the world's deadliest sporting tragedies in recent history.

The ongoing trial of a self-confessed serial murderer and rapist in the Eastern Cape has  highlighted the dangers of social media.

Police in rural India have made some citizens who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus wear signs with a skull and crossbones, the universal symbol for danger, stoking anger in a country where shots are in short supply.

Russian police detained an opposition activist on Moscow's Red Square on Friday after he simulated shooting himself in the head in a political protest, social media images showed and one of his allies told Russian media.

The United Arab Emirates has ratified the extradition treaty with SA to ensure the Guptas are brought to book for their alleged roles in state capture.