Rescue crews, including the army, worked through the night to evacuate thousands of people stranded in their cars on an Athens motorway after a severe snowstorm swept across Greece on Monday, blanketing the capital and causing traffic chaos.

The day after her four-year-old was electrocuted by a fence due to illegal electricity connections the child's mother was shocked by the same fence.

High levels of water flow are expected at the falls for the next three weeks.

South Africans have been hit hard in the pocket by rising food prices with the cost of the basic household food basket increasing by nearly 9% in the last year.

Shand, who waived his right to a probable cause hearing, will remain in custody until plans are made for his return home to Deltona, Florida.

Close associates in the Free State of suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule face possible prosecution after they were referred to the National Prosecuting Authority for charges of corruption and fraud by the Special Investigating Unit.

"Cadres and tenderpreneurs took advantage while vulnerable and ill people were struggling to survive the devastation of the pandemic,” said DA national spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube.

Japan is set to miss a target to give Covid-19 booster shots to almost 15 million people this month after the fast spread of the omicron variant threw initial rollout plans into disarray.

One person was injured and several buildings were damaged by an explosion in central Athens that led to a fire early on Wednesday, officials and witnesses said.

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The Alfred Duma municipality has distanced itself from an allegation that Ladysmith mayor Zama Sibisi crashed a municipal vehicle while "having fun with female friends" outside the municipality.

The party has so far spent R1.3m in legal costs in efforts to challenge government and the owners of the mine and assist the families.

The City of Johannesburg’s development planning offices have been rocked by burglaries and vandalism of property, with the latest crimes taking place days apart.

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The storm has also triggered major power cuts in Malawi.

The man charged with smashing court windows in Vryburg in North West was granted R500 bail, says the National Prosecuting Authority.

The Western Cape health department says there are steps you can take to reduce the risk of spreading Covid-19 from used masks.

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has filed an application in the high court in Pretoria to declare that Sanral is in contempt of court for not complying with an order the court issued in November last year.

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Three men who were on the run after a house robbery in Kimberley last month were caught in Johannesburg recently, police said on Tuesday.

SA recorded just fewer than 3,200 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Tuesday.

Mayor Nceba Ndikinda said council leadership had seen a video in which security officials were seen dragging Nanziwe Rulashe, a member of the mayoral committee, in an "inhumane and barbaric manner".

"Sars takes umbrage at some among our ranks who engage in criminality. We will root them out."

Alleged co-conspirator gives court a graphic account of the build-up to the murder, which ‘was meant to look like a suicide’

Total tax revenue collections for 2020/21 declined to just less than R1.25-trillion from close to R1.35-trillion collected the previous year.

Nine witnesses are to testify in the murder trial of a KwaZulu-Natal police officer accused of the 2019 murder of his girlfriend, ANC Youth League provincial executive committee member Sindisiwe Ndlovu.

The SA Weather Service has announced that the searing weekend temperatures in the Western Cape and Northern Cape at the weekend will not be counted in the climate database as new records.

The final report into the incident, released on Tuesday, makes damning findings about the crash and SACAA

Big Tree Copper, which describes itself as a green copper processer, is targeting a listing on either the JSE or Cape Town Stock Exchange, with plans to raise more than R100m in capital when it comes to market.

Following huge swells along the coast last week, the famous Antipolis shipwreck washed ashore after resting in the ocean for nearly 45 years.