Dlamini said Eskom should be sensitive to the plight of poor residents who can’t afford to pay exorbitant rates.

Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke will hold in-depth discussions with members of the media on the outcomes of her report.

The heavy rains will lead to flooding in formal and informal settlements and infrastructure.

DA leader John Steenhuisen said the party went this route because the money stolen from President Cyril Ramaphosa's farm was in US currency.

Eskom says stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented between 10am and midnight on Wednesday due to breakdowns at four generation units leading to capacity constraints.

As part of a global effort to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial average, more governments are seeking to place a price on carbon to lower emissions by increasing the cost of producing them.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to receive the fifth and final judicial commission of inquiry report into allegations of state capture, corruption and fraud on Wednesday afternoon.

Ukrainian and Russian forces were entrenched in eastern Ukrainian battlegrounds on Wednesday, a day of commemoration in both countries to mark the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

The US should “urgently” start talks with Taiwan on a free-trade agreement with the aim to present a completed text for passage next year, the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan said in an annual policy paper published on Wednesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 killed at least 130 people in Afghanistan early on Wednesday, an official said, adding that at least 250 people were injured and checks were being conducted to see if the casualty toll might rise.

The payments are for applicants who appealed their declined applications from August to November 2021.

A British subsidiary of mining and trading giant Glencore on Tuesday formally pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in connection with oil operations in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and South Sudan.

An off-duty police constable was shot dead by gunmen outside her home in Delft, Cape Town on Tuesday evening.

The department said the financial agreement between the World Bank and Treasury "will establish an enabling environment for other donors, multilateral development banks, and UN agencies to further support vaccination efforts in the country".

A California jury in a civil case ruled on Tuesday that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager, and ordered the comedian to pay her $500,000 in damages for emotional distress from the incident.

Intimate partner violence, poor mental health and excessive drinking remain the major drivers of parent stress, which in turn fuels violence in homes in the form of spanking and leads to poor mental health outcomes of children.

It appears the functionaries who sought to discipline paediatric gastroenterologist Dr Tim De Maayer for highlighting problems at the hospital he worked in were guilty of violating the constitution and the relevant legislation affecting children, an...

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Phaahla said the recommendations will be discussed with the cabinet “in the next 48-72 hours”.

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Two of the three men who raped a 14-year-old girl in Bloemfontein in 2017 were sentenced to life by the Bloemfontein sexual offences court.

The high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday sentenced a man who killed his girlfriend in January 2020 to life imprisonment.

Representative of the Social Cohesion Group Ravi Pillay says the labelling of the deaths of 34 people in Phoenix during the July 2021 unrest as a “massacre” is wrong and perpetrates racial divisions.

Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse on Tuesday asked residents from Soweto to give her 14 days to address their service delivery issues.

Masks and limits on gatherings should go, according to a leaked memo by health minister Joe Phaahla

The family of a murdered Mamelodi mother and daughter say they are in pain and want the alleged perpetrator to face the full might of the law.

A total of 265 bricks of cocaine, worth R111m, were discovered concealed in bags aboard a vessel ferrying trucks in the Durban harbour on Saturday.

KwaZulu-Natal transport, community safety and liaison MEC Neliswa Peggy Nkonyeni and her security detail were injured in an accident outside Ulundi after a meeting with King Misuzulu kaZwelithini and premier Sihle Zikalala on Tuesday.

A Soweto pensioner, who marched on Tuesday with fellow residents to hand over a memorandum of grievances to Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse, says he has at times gone without electricity for a year.

Disgruntled parents and school governing body members gathered outside JG Zuma High in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, on Tuesday to demand the removal of two teachers.