An Ethiopian government air strike on the capital of the northern Tigray region on Friday forced a U.N. aid flight to abort a landing there, the United Nations said.

Nigeria's Borno state, the epicentre of an ongoing Islamist insurgency, will shut all camps that are holding thousands of internally displaced people by the end of the year, its governor said on Friday, citing improved security in the state.

A fraudster who was bust for cloning credit cards and then skipped bail will spend the next seven years behind bars.

It'll be third time lucky for a lawyer who has previously been suspended and struck off for failing to keep proper accounts.

Suspected Ethiopian extortionists have been bust in Johannesburg for kidnapping fellow countrymen across SA.

Former police officer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, who was accused of killing her lover, sister, cousin, niece and two nephews to cash in on life and funeral policies, was on Friday found guilty of the murder of all six victims.

Covid-19 vaccinations do not increase the risk of first-trimester miscarriages in pregnant women new research shows.

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Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola has appointed Martin Kroukamp as a senior magistrate - after 12 years of litigation.

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found the auditors regulatory body guilty of maladministration in a complaint brought by the “Please Call Me” inventor on Friday.

Gauteng traffic police have encountered five motorists excessively speeding on major roads, namely the N4 Pretoria to Mpumalanga and N1 Pretoria to Johannesburg on Thursday night.

It was another day of low Covid-19 infections, with 517 cases recorded in the past 24 hours.

Zimbabwe has formed a crisis team to clear traffic at Beitbridge, one of Africa’s busiest border posts, which is undergoing a R4.45bn revamp.

Sgt Keshi Benneth Mabunda and prosecutor Riana Williams received praise from judge Ramarumo Monama for the watertight case they produced in nailing the murder mastermind.

A suspected poacher's body was found in the Kruger National Park on Thursday.

The City of Tshwane said on Friday it is going to court to seek an urgent interdict against the SA Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) after municipal services in the city were disrupted.

The remaining nine former military struggle veterans who allegedly held defence minister Thandi Modise and two other ministers “hostage” last week were granted bail on Friday.

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The director and four employers of a registered debt collecting firm have each been fined an effective R110,000 by the Council for Debt Collectors for a “myriad” of “extremely serious” contraventions.

Four days before the class of 2021 begins its final examinations, KwaZulu-Natal matric pupils pledged not to cheat.

A Haitian man identifying himself as the leader of the gang that kidnapped a group of American and Canadian missionaries said in a video posted on YouTube on Thursday that he was willing to kill "these Americans" if he does not get what he needs.

Former police officer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu – who was accused of killing her lover, sister, cousin, niece and two nephews in order to cash out on life and funeral policies – was on Friday found guilty of all the charges.

Haitian authorities said on Thursday that a Colombian national, considered a suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, had been arrested in Jamaica as investigations continues.

Councillor Xanthea Limberg, responsible for water and waste, launched the second phase of the city's rapid response programme to “support existing efforts to tackle the thousands of chronic illegal dumping hotspots across Cape Town”.

“Kensington detectives conducted a tracing operation in an informal settlement adjacent to 18th Avenue following a tipoff and arrested a 28-year-old suspect who was caught in possession of an unlicensed shotgun,” police spokesperson Col Andrè Tr...

Mpumalanga police have launched a manhunt for suspects after the Acornhoek Mall was attacked by a group of armed suspects in the early hours on Friday.

Seated on opposite ends of court 13 in the high court sitting in Palm Ridge on Friday, where judgment in the murder trial of Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu is being delivered, are two brothers, both of whom lost siblings but in different ways.

Oz the white rhino's painful toothache has been resolved, thanks to the first ever successful CT scan to be conducted on a live adult rhino in SA.

Residents from Tumahole, a township in Parys, say the erection of a statue costing R3.3m at the never-used Fezile Dabi Stadium was the last straw.

More than 3-million people who are eligible for the R350 social relief of distress grant are not receiving the assistance, according to the social development department’s Dr Wiseman Magasela.