Forensic investigators are combing the scene at the department of justice regional office in Cape Town where a wooden door was allegedly set on fire.

An incident report based on observations by fire safety officers paints a disturbing picture of slip-ups and equipment failure during the blaze that gutted parts of the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town.

Mmusi Maimane says the 30% pass mark hurts pupils, the education system, and the economy in the long run.

The man arrested for breaking the windows at the Constitutional Court with a hammer on Wednesday was a parolee with a 2010 murder conviction.

A week after a sewage spill contaminated the water at Uvongo Beach on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, it remains closed to the public despite a drop in toxicity levels.

Jordanian food artist Omar Sartawi creates high-end environmentally friendly handbags out of orange peels.

"The lies that drove the anger and madness we saw in this place, they have not abated. So we have to be firm, resolute and unyielding in our defense of the right to vote and to have that vote counted," Biden said from the US Capitol, where a mob of T...

The Covid-19 travel ban imposed by Mauritius on SA, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia is being lifted on Friday.

The concept car, called the BMW iX Flow, uses electronic ink technology normally found in e-readers to transform the car's exterior into a variety of patterns in gray and white.

A Pietermaritzburg garden worker has been arrested for allegedly strangling his elderly employer with an extension cord and stealing her possessions.

The resignation of Sudan's prime minister puts the military firmly back in control of the country but facing a population angry that its hopes for democratic rule have been set back yet again.

Democracy in Action tasted defeat in its bid to prevent President Cyril Ramaphosa from getting hold of the first State Capture Commission of Inquiry report.

Afrika said the medically-trained team supported the mother while she helped her deliver the baby and cut the umbilical cord before the ambulance could arrive.

For those with open eyes, the denuding of democratic state legitimacy was uncovered and the key protagonists – both perpetrators and victims – identified.

China reported 116 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed clinical symptoms for Thursday, mostly in Xian and the province of Henan, down from 132 a day earlier, official data showed on Friday.

Hain has written to Boris Johnson, urging the UK authorities to freeze state contracts with Bain after the release of the Zondo report on state capture

According to the Department of Health, covering your nose and mouth for a long time with a mask won't cause carbon dioxide poisoning or lack of adequate oxygen in healthy people.

Yakhe Kwinana's fat cake analogy video has once again been thrust into the spotlight after the Zondo commission recommended she be charged for fraud and corruption.

Australia reported record cases for the fifth straight day on Friday, with more than 78,000 infections.

While cases continue to crop up, the country has not yet seen local transmission of the omicron variant even as it fuels record surges across the globe.

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Health department records a high 551 Covid-19 fatalities on Thursday, but says they are historical deaths and that only 45 occurred in the past 48 hours.

The man who owned the key to Nelson Mandela’s cell during his incarceration at Robben Island says he is in discussions with auction house Guernsey’s to withdraw the item from auction.

The body parts found in the Roodeplaat Dam on December 28 have been identified as belonging to 43-year-old Zeyn Khan, police said on Thursday.

Len Cloete, who was shot in the head by a police officer after an altercation at a lodge in Muldersdrift, Gauteng, in November, has been placed into rehabilitation and is able to recognise his wife.

The Competition Tribunal has dismissed an application by a former Mercedes-Benz approved auto body repairer, Eldan Auto Body, which sought to remove the admission it made last year of cartel conduct.

Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi cited the "threat posed by Omicron and the need to prevent unnecessary gatherings that could further the spread of the virus" as he called on people not to gather outside court.

KZN human settlements MEC Jomo Sibiya will on Friday launch a project aimed at rehabilitating houses after violent storms battered the uMgungundlovu district during the festive season.

Cosatu has called for the Zondo commission's recommendations to be implemented.