Former US President Barack Obama urged Virginians to re-elect Terry McAuliffe as governor at a rally on Saturday, emphasising the race's significance as an indicator of the country's political direction and a reflection of its values.

Police in Gauteng confirmed a shooting incident on Saturday in Kagiso on Gauteng's West Rand which left six people - four men and two women - dead.

A fire broke out on Saturday on containers on a cargo ship carrying mining chemicals off British Columbia, and the Canadian Coast Guard said it is working with the US Coast Guard to assess the situation, including environmental hazards.

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A Gqeberha businessman has been summoned to appear in court to answer to a raft of charges after alleged counterfeit goods worth R3.9m were seized from his shop and home.

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane has slated the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) for a food parcel tender bungle that left the destitute hungry.

Russian and Chinese warships held their first joint patrols in the Western part of the Pacific ocean on October 17-23, Russia's defence ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

Britain's Prince Charles, in recorded remarks at an environment event in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, said there was a "dangerously narrow window" to accelerate climate change action.

An Eastern Cape teacher has been handed a suspended jail sentence for funeral  policy fraud.

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.