Here's what you need to know about the grants being offered to help businesses get back on their feet after last year's unrest.

A total of 5,082 people departed Hong Kong on Sunday, the most since the city was hit with its most severe and far-reaching wave of Covid.

On October 25 2017, a paramedic watched as a bakkie screeched to a halt in the parking lot of Brits Provincial Hospital. A man ran toward him with the limp body of a young girl in his arms.

The International Court of Justice has set aside two days to hear the case in which the Ukraine has called for Russia's genocide claims to be declared untrue.

Profits from the sale of an abstract artwork by SA's famous painting porker Pigcasso, depicting the Ukrainian crisis, will be donated to an animal sanctuary in the war-torn country.

"I choose not to support Russia’s Ukraine invasion and the slaughter of civilians as that is an unconscionable international law violation. I stand with Ukraine," said Madonsela.

Police are searching for a man believed to be linked to the brutal murder of two girls, aged six and 14, in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal.

Two years after the pandemic began, New Zealanders are finally facing its reality.

Amid foreign invasions, civil wars, insurgent attacks, and more recently, the resumption of Taliban rule, Afghans have always gathered to cheer on their favourite "chapandaz", as the riders are known.

Kenya Airways Plc said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will result in airlines increasing ticket prices after crude oil surged, while uncertainty may reduce demand for travel.

A Johannesburg couple is delighted to have played an important role in changing the country's laws to give those in same-sex relationships full parental rights.

Want to donate to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine? Here's how you can help.

Morrison, whose government has clashed with its biggest export partner over a range of issues, said he was dismayed by China's reticence.

The chief of South Korea's ruling party was admitted to hospital on Monday after being hit on the head by a stranger while campaigning for this week's presidential election, in which early voting has been marred by some lapses.

President Cyril Ramaphosa earned about R10m from the sale of some of his stud cattle at an auction.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has signed into law a bill that raises the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16, his office said on Monday, in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse.

Putin signed a decree Saturday allowing Russia and Russian companies to pay some of their foreign creditors in rubles, in a bid to avoid defaults.

As President Cyril Ramaphosa was announced as a witness to testify before the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on the July 2021 unrest that saw businesses looted and more than 300 people killed, one family who lost a loved one say the hearings won'...

A bumper bashing led to a 50-year-old man being shot and wounded during a road rage incident in Fontainebleau, Randburg, on Saturday evening.

The Department of Health hoped that by the end of February the positivity rate of Covid-19 infections would be lower than 5%, saying it is its “greatest disappointment” that it is not.

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No Covid-19 deaths have been reported in SA in the past 24 to 48 hours.

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Ukrainians fleeing the town of Irpin just outside Kyiv were caught in shelling by Russian forces on Sunday and forced to dive for cover, Reuters witnesses said.

Peaceful protesters in Durban marched in solidarity with Ukraine on Sunday afternoon, under the banner 'Stand With Ukraine'.

An attempt to evacuate residents from the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol collapsed for a second day on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said, blaming an insufficiently clear agreement between the two sides.

The coronation of Prince Misuzulu kaZwelithini as king of the Zulu nation will be done "after the president exhausts processes that are involved".

Two inmates died and another is being treated in hospital after an alleged attack on a prison official at a correctional facility in Kimberley in the Northern Cape.

Two men will appear in court on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping a Durban businessman and demanding a R1m ransom for his release.

President Vladimir Putin warned Ukraine on Sunday that Russia's military operation would only be halted if Kyiv stopped resisting and fulfilled all of the Kremlin's demands.