Social media was abuzz with the sighting of a large, travelling body of light on Saturday night.

MSC Cruises has cancelled all December voyages in SA due to the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections.

The director-general of the department of basic education, Mathanzima Mweli, thanked matric markers profusely on Saturday for their “amazing act of sacrifice and demonstration of patriotism” in undertaking to mark the grade 12 exam papers.

Police arrested two men on Saturday evening after the fatal shooting and robbery of a Ladysmith K9 officer a few hours earlier.

Extreme winds hit the Canadian province of Ontario to plunge more than 280,000 homes and businesses into darkness, utility Hydro One said on Saturday, although power supplies were later restored to some.

An Amazon.com Inc. warehouse collapse on Friday night that killed at least six people has amplified concerns among its blue collar workforce about the return of the internet retailer’s mobile phone ban in work areas.

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No one is seriously going to say that your kids should play video games inside instead of being out in the SA sunshine. Almost no one. Gareth Woods does.

A fugitive banker wanted in Portugal on fraud charges involving €41m (about R740m) was arrested in SA early on Saturday.

The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard is set for a ride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin commercial rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Spac...

The world’s poultry farmers are battling another grim spell of bird-flu cases, risking higher chicken prices and fewer free-range eggs.

Shoprite Checkers must pay a former employee R25,000 in compensation after she was sexually harassed by a general manager.

McDonald’s Corp. settled a lawsuit that had accused the fast-food chain of discrimination by the Black franchise operators of four of its restaurants in Tennessee.

President Joe Biden highlighted Senator Bob Dole's concerns about US democracy in a tribute on Friday to the former Republican presidential candidate, a World War II veteran Biden called a hero.

First National Bank (FNB) faces a court fight after failing to sound the alarm when R1.2m in cash was withdrawn from a bank account in two days.

A score of people were trapped on Friday in a nursing home in northeastern Arkansas after it was struck by a tornado that killed two people and injured five, media said, citing a county official.

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is "thinking of" leaving his jobs and becoming an influencer, the world's richest man tweeted on Thursday.

Cape Town’s marine and environmental law enforcement unit apprehended four suspected poachers in a marine protected area near Llandudno on Friday.

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SA recorded 19,018 new Covid-19 cases and 20 deaths in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said on Friday night.

"I'm healthy and I never got the virus so I don't see the reason why I should be vaccinated. I don't think my son will be vaccinated. I think that will happen the last minute when they push everybody, but I won't take my kids for vaccination."

Four SA whistle-blowers, including the slain Babita Deokaran, were honoured at the "Blueprint for Free Speech Whistleblowing Awards", which were held this week.

Bathabile Dlamini will have to wait another week to hear whether she will be acquitted of perjury.

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday reinstated the life sentence imposed on a man who raped his step-daughter numerous times since 2011, when she was 12.

Huge consignments of illegal cigarettes, hookah pipe tobacco and scrap metal amounting to R40m were uncovered during two major operations by the SA Revenue Service customs division in Durban and Polokwane.

A mixture of shock, outrage and incredulity met video footage this week of a Cape Town motorist driving an Opel Corsa with its back right wheel replaced with a flatbed trolley.

An alleged hijacker shot himself in the leg during a scuffle with a man he had allegedly taken hostage in Durban.

The SA Medical Research Council says its scientists have detected the Covid-19 Omicron variant in Cape Town and Nelson Mandela Bay.