Colombia's attorney-general said an initial analysis including toxicological tests had found 10 types of substances, including THC found in marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids.

A non-fungible token created from Nelson Mandela’s original arrest warrant raised R1.9m in an auction to help fund a heritage site that documents SA's struggle for democracy.

The department of correctional services has confirmed that it's investigating the death of an inmate who died during a scuffle at the Pietermaritzburg Medium A Centre in KwaZulu-Natal.

US President Joe Biden described Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a butcher who "cannot remain in power" after meeting Ukrainian refugees in Poland, as Kremlin forces stepped up attacks across Ukraine, including the western city of Lviv.

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Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in protest against xenophobia and Operation Dudula on Saturday.

Western Cape police have announced a breakthrough in one of the multiple murder cases being investigated in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

A new study has revealed that many hand sanitiser brands sold in Johannesburg in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic contained traces of toxic ingredients and less alcohol than required.

About 1,000 Cape Flats residents will be spared the hassles of travelling to work after a global business services (GBS) company announced a state-of-the-art contact centre for Mitchells Plain.

South Africans who have either received the J&J or Pfizer vaccine jabs are encouraged to get booster shots to ensure maximum protection.

US President Joe Biden will argue in a speech in Poland on Saturday that the “free world” opposes Russia's invasion of Ukraine and that there is unity among major economies on the need to stop Vladimir Putin, the White House said.

An Eastern Cape traffic cop and a driving school instructor have been hauled to court for driving licence corruption.

A talk about gender-based violence at a Cape Town primary school left a grade 7 girl in tears as she told a teacher what had happened to her eight months earlier.

Three family members are facing fraud charges for allegedly cheating Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape out of R13.9m.

The Gqeberha specialised commercial crimes court sentenced a bookkeeper for Road Accident Fund (RAF) fraud amounting to R500,000 on Friday.

The war in Ukraine has killed 136 children in the 31 days since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine's office of the prosecutor general said on Saturday.

The SABC board on Friday said it was hopeful that the March 31 deadline for the analogue switch-off (ASO) would be extended.

Several Zimbabwean women are allegedly trapped in abusive working conditions as domestic workers under the Kafala visa sponsorship system in Oman, in the Middle East.

A 37-year-old police sergeant was killed during a shoot-out with suspects at a guest house in Kabokweni, Mpumalanga, on Friday morning.

The Secunda regional court has sentenced a Zimbabwean national who was found in possession of a live pangolin to a 10-year jail term.

Emalahleni-based transport company Massyn Vervoer says  it has taken a decision to close its tautliner division with effect from April 30.

Operation Dudula's Durban wing was on Friday denied permission to hold a march on Sunday.

The Free State high court on Friday granted the National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) a forfeiture order for R18m that was fraudulently paid into SA bank accounts by Lesotho government officials.

As Zimbabwe heads for by-elections on Saturday the process has been marred by allegations of vote-buying, intimidation and irregularities.

Despite strategies to accelerate the repairs to and refurbishing of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, the process is still being hampered by crime.

Certain taxi routes and ranks in Nyanga could be closed down and operating licences suspended if the violence between rival associations continues, the Western Cape transport MEC warned on Friday.

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The Hawks said the university’s former financial administrator Wendy Zimasa Xabiya was convicted this week after it was found she stole R480,000.

Police minister Bheki Cele has joined the throng of people celebrating Ntuthuko Shoba's conviction on Friday for ordering the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Tshegofatso Pule.