Severe thunderstorms bringing hail, heavy rain and “excessive lightning” are expected to hit the southern part of Gauteng on Thursday afternoon.

But litigation over home affairs decision far from over, says Motsoaledi.

Three men have been arrested after police discovered the battered body of a man whose hands and legs were bound with a chain secured around his neck with a padlock inside a car in Clairwood, south of Durban, on Tuesday.

A group of Pretoria fishermen and campers spotted a motorist they believe was dumping the frozen and mutilated torso of an unknown man into the Roodeplaat Dam.

Indian authorities started to impose stringent rules on Thursday to prevent mass gatherings at parties and public venues ahead of new year celebrations as the nation sees a spike in Covid-19 infections.

A booster dose of Johnson & Johnson's single-dose Covid-19 vaccine was 84% effective at preventing hospitalisation of SA healthcare workers who became infected as the Omicron variant spread, researchers said on Thursday.

A dog’s grisly find on Christmas day led family members to the discovery of the body of a 10-year-old boy who had gone missing on December 15.

Mourners are queuing outside the St George's Cathedral in Cape Town where the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu is lying in state on Thursday.

The body of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu arrived at St George's Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday in a plain wooden coffin.

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Cape Town commemorated the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in a colourful way on Wednesday night.

For women who assembled iPhones in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck.

Te death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a mysterious birth of 10 babies, and protracted court battles involving former president Jacob Zuma and killing sprees are some of the news highlights of 2021.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to spread across the globe, it is important that children feel safe, loved, included and supported.

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"I could not sleep because of the debts, but finding this app saved me and my children."

Maimane, who has been calling for the transformation of the basic education system to equip pupils for the rapidly changing demands of society and the world, took to Twitter on Wednesday to air his views.

The jury deliberated for five full days before reaching the verdict.

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Tutu will lie in state for two days at St George's Cathedral as Cape Town gears up for the final farewell.

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SA recorded 9,020 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Wednesday.

The historic city hall building where Nelson Mandela greeted crowds upon his release was bathed in a purple glow as religious leaders read out messages, meditations and a prayer.

Underground coal fires have been burning for years and are threatening homes and lives of 20,000 people in Hwange in Matabeleland North.

Cape Town has been painted purple as the municipality, clerics and ordinary citizens remember Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

The year's most popular password used in 50 countries — including SA — is “123456".

Minister of trade, industry and competition, Ebrahim Patel, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday.

Mourners gathered at Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s home in Soweto to pay their respects to an SA icon on Wednesday.

A pair of dangerously close space encounters is adding to tensions between the US and China, while underscoring the potential peril to astronauts as satellite constellations and debris proliferate in orbit.