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Senegal votes in municipal and regional elections on Sunday, amid growing political tensions over whether President Macky Sall will seek to extend his rule beyond the two-term limit in a nation long considered one of Africa's most stable democracies.

Heavy gunfire rang out from the main military camp in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou early on Sunday morning, a Reuters reporter said.

A 49-year-old Briton was found dead at his home with knife wounds in western Thailand, and a Thai suspect was in custody, police said on Sunday.

A 30-year-old male trail runner collapsed and died during a training session at Devil's Peak in Cape Town on Saturday.

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If you think driving while talking on a cellphone is dangerous, what about flying?

A pilot taking three passengers on a sightseeing flight over Pretoria flew so dangerously  low over a road that he severed an overhead power line with his propeller.

A Gauteng deputy principal was gunned down in the school driveway on Friday.

The employment and labour department said computers and "other assets" were stolen during the burglary.

"There is nothing that irritates me more than when people ask me to call people or connections for this or that job or contract," lamented Mboweni.

Lauren Davids was hauled to court in grade 8 after she retaliated against a bully who taunted her for being overweight.

A busy mountain road connecting the southern peninsula to the rest of Cape Town was closed by fires on Saturday, and visitors to the Silvermine area were evacuated.

A student waiting with his friends for newspapers containing their matric results was shot dead by robbers.

Sanitiser in homemade beer, dirty municipal drinking water and contaminated cake filling were behind some of the latest stomach bugs investigated by SA's team of intestinal disease experts.

When Covid-19 hit SA and stigmatisation was at its peak, many healthcare workers were shunned in their communities due to fear of the virus.

A Limpopo businessman has been hauled to court for alleged fraud involving farming equipment worth R121,000.

The Hawks seized drugs worth R1.2m in Beaufort West in the Western Cape on Friday and arrested a 35-year-old suspect.

Durban firefighters were still tackling a blaze at the China Emporium in the city centre on Saturday.

Three abalone poachers have been fined R100,000 each after they were bust for running an illegal processing facility in Cape Town.

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A South African court on Friday postponed a ruling on a lawsuit from descendants of South Africa's earliest inhabitants, the Khoi and San, to try to halt construction of Amazon's new Africa headquarters on what they say is sacred land.

Fixed-line and mobile operator is still going ahead with its court challenge of the process of auctioning the spectrum that is vital to rolling out 5G technology

A 54-year-old man who has been on the run since 2012 for allegedly stealing Krugerrands worth R7.8m was nabbed in Knysna in the Western Cape on Thursday.

“It would be an insult to justice for murderer Donovan Moodley to be released on parole,” is the recommendation of the Johannesburg Correctional Services Medium B Prison parole board after a marathon hearing on Friday.

As of Friday there were 6,892 people admitted to public and private hospitals in SA with Covid-19.

In Zimbabwe’s second city, government medical staff are going door-to-door with Covid-19 vaccines in a bid to boost a stalled vaccine programme in the latest indication of how Africa’s drive has now switched from sourcing doses to persuading peop...

'We advise applicants not to book flights before they receive their visa, not least so they can avoid extra expense in having to change their plans.'