Community groups in December won a temporary halt to the company’s seismic survey off SA, pending a decision on whether further environmental authorisation is needed for the work to proceed. The case will reopen on Monday.

"You cannot rely on police to do good detective work, or the courts to necessarily convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent. Be careful what you wish for," said Helen Zille.

Rescue workers in Nepal on Monday recovered 14 bodies as they scoured a remote Himalayan mountainside scattered with the wreckage of a small plane that crashed with 22 aboard, with officials saying the chance of finding survivors was slim.

A woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a car while collecting water from a roadside JoJo tank in flood-hit La Mercy on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.

Violent protests on the N3 near Mooi River in KwaZulu-Natal disrupted traffic on Monday morning.

An off-duty midwife helped deliver a homeless woman's baby on the side of a Chatsworth road, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Monday.

The murder trial of former Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa resumes in the high court in Pretoria this morning after a month-long postponement.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth will lead four days of national celebration in June to mark her Platinum Jubilee.

A fire at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria in the early hours of Monday morning affected temporary structures.

The trial of alleged parliament arsonist Zandile Mafe is continuing in the Cape Town regional court on Monday.

“That it took a lot of public pressure for the department to make a statement three days after the phone was found reveals nothing but a concerted effort to cover up the corruption that characterises our prison system,” said the EFF.

A small passenger plane with 22 people on board went missing in cloudy weather in Nepal on Sunday and authorities suspended a search in difficult terrain as night fell.

Nigeria's former vice president, veteran politician Atiku Abubakar, will run for president again next year after the main opposition party picked him as its candidate to stand in elections to succeed incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

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A video clip shared on social media networks a week ago showing a man hitting and wrestling with several women has been traced to an old case in Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape.

In his address to the nation at the beginning of the national state of disaster, Ramaphosa said the council would “meet three times a week to co-ordinate all aspects of our extraordinary emergency response”.

The "liberation" of Ukraine's Donbas is an "unconditional priority" for Moscow, while other Ukrainian territories should decide their future on their own, RIA news agency cited Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Sunday.

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Sudan's military leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, on Sunday issued a decree lifting a state of emergency that he imposed after seizing control in a military coup on Oct. 25 last year.

The EU failed on Sunday to agree on an embargo of Russian oil, but diplomats but will still try to make progress ahead of a Monday-Tuesday summit on an exemption for pipeline deliveries to landlocked Central European countries, officials said.

Memorial Day weekend, which culminates in ceremonies to honor US military dead, sees many Americans flock to beaches, river fronts and other coastal areas to enjoy the outdoors at the start of the summer season.

As the nation reels from two major mass shootings this month, a stampede broke out early Sunday in New York as rumors spread of gunfire just after a boxing match ended, injuring almost a dozen people, police said.

The trial for four Sudanese protesters accused of killing a police officer earlier this year began in Khartoum on Sunday, amid anti-military demonstrators and heavy police presence.

A large fire broke out in an industrial building in Spreitenbach outside Zurich on Sunday and three people were treated by emergency services after inhaling poisonous fumes, police said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said talks with Finland and Sweden about their joining NATO were not at the "expected level" and Ankara cannot say yes to "terrorism-supporting" countries, state broadcaster TRT Haber reported on Sunday.

President Joe Biden flew to the Texas town of Uvalde on Sunday to comfort families ripped apart by the worst US school shooting in a decade as the public demands answers about why local police failed to act swiftly.

A shortage of clean linen at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto has allegedly led to cancellations of scheduled operations in the past three weeks.

The SA Weather Service (SAWS) has issued a warning for damaging winds of between 70km-80km/h along the coastal areas of KwaZulu-Natal on Monday morning.

A statement about a City Power substation being on fire and affecting water supply is fake, Johannesburg's water utility announced on Sunday.