The "darkness" of social ills distorts lives and needs to be confronted, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba says in his Easter sermon.

An estimated 1,200 people had been displaced or remained unaccounted for, with about 300 wood or iron structures destroyed or damaged, according to the city’s preliminary assessment.

Experts say they have been sounding the alarm for years but authorities have been slow to respond. They warn that these changes will affect food security, which will lead to higher food prices and ultimately more social unrest.

Ukraine updates.

A Cape Town fire and rescue team arrived in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday to help their counterparts recover the bodies of flood victims.

Russia's warplanes bombed Lviv and its missiles struck Kyiv on Saturday, as Moscow followed through on a threat to launch more long-range attacks on Ukrainian cities after its Black Sea Fleet's flagship was sunk.

The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) will increase the value of cash benefits from R700 to R1,980 for disaster cases where people have lost all of their belongings, and double that if there has been a loss of life.

Former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke is among five distinguished people who will receive honorary doctorates from the University of the Free State (UFS) this month.

The virologist whose discovery of the Omicron variant sparked Covid-19 travel bans on SA says if it happens again he will stop sharing his data internationally.

KwaZulu-Natal health officials fear diarrhoea outbreaks as the province faces water and sanitation challenges caused by floods.

The EU and Russia are at risk of triggering a de facto embargo on Russian gas after the bloc’s lawyers drafted a preliminary finding that the mechanism President Vladimir Putin is demanding for payment in rubles would violate the bloc’s sanctions...

The imported tequila bottle costs between R9,000 and R10,000 at liquor outlets in SA.

A Cape Town taxi driver is set to appear in court for allegedly extorting money from a motorist.

Lockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were "astonishing", according to a new analysis.

A former North West attorney has been busted for allegedly dipping into a trust account.

Thai rebels sidelined from peace talks claimed responsibility on Saturday for deadly bombings in the country's Muslim-majority deep south that broke a Ramadan holiday agreed between the main rebel group and the government.

Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic Covid-19 cases on Saturday and other areas across China imposed restrictions as the country kept up its "dynamic clearance" approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron Covid-19 var...

The city-state’s political succession is usually a well-choreographed affair in the small but wealthy country, in which the ruling People’s Action Party has held power uninterrupted for nearly six decades.

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Moscow has used its naval power to blockade Ukrainian ports and threaten a potential amphibious landing along the coast. Without the Moskva, the largest warship sunk during conflict since Argentina's General Belgrano in the 1982 Falklands war, its ab...

Elon Musk used an upside-down smile emoji on Saturday in a response to a tweet he sent more than four years ago about how much it would cost to buy Twitter Inc.

Ukraine Updates.

KwaZulu-Natal will receive about R1bn from the national department of human settlements after thousands of houses were destroyed during the floods this week.

A traditional prayer observed on Good Friday was cancelled at the Umhlatuzana Hindu Temple in Chatsworth after part of the 70-year-old building was demolished and washed into a nearby river during the floods on Monday.

Eleven people were killed in the Western Cape on Friday morning when a bus and minibus collided.

Thirty-five people were killed and 71 others seriously injured when a bus carrying members of the Zion Christian Church was involved in an accident in Chipinge, southeastern Zimbabwe on Thursday night.

KwaZulu-Natal went from floods to fires on Wednesday as the devastating impact of one of the worst downpours in its history emerged and those affected vented their frustration by burning tyres on rain-soaked roads.

A military helicopter airlifted a woman's body from a dam in KwaDukuza on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Friday.

Some areas in Johannesburg are without power and water after a fire gutted the Eldorado Park substation on Friday morning.