Residents of Kariega in the Eastern Cape shared a laugh after a prison inmate who tried to escape was quickly rearrested due to his lack of urgency in attempting to flee.

About 300 producers would have no alternative market for their fruit should the Ashton factory in the Western Cape close.

Police said the scam involves the "hijacking" of WhatsApp accounts and could lead to users' personal details being stolen.

A sergeant stationed at Benoni police station in Gauteng and his alleged accomplice have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping Refiloe Malope in Limpopo.

Strikes crippled Britain's rail network on Thursday as union bosses, train operating firms and the government faced off over demands that workers' pay increases keep pace with surging inflation.

A landmark inquiry into Australia’s mining sector has uncovered dozens of shocking cases of sexual harassment and abuse of women workers at companies including BHP Group and Rio Tinto Group.

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of engaging in a 10-year sex-trafficking scheme with former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein, deserves to spend 30-55 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.

Parnas, 50, was convicted in October of seeking funds from Russian businessman Andrey Muraviev to donate to candidates Parnas believed could help secure licenses to operate cannabis businesses. US law bars foreign individuals from contributing to cam...

In yet another gender-based violence incident in Limpopo, a 55-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife, 54, to death at their home in Spitzkop.

The high court in Pretoria has ruled in favour of a woman whose wedding ring finger was amputated after it was bitten during an armed robbery in 2016.

A 57-year-old man from Sebokeng who attacked a lesbian couple last year, killing one of them, will spend 25 years in prison for his crime.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow's massive air and artillery attacks were aimed at destroying the entire Donbas region and urged Ukraine's allies to accelerate the shipment of heavy weapons to match Russia on the battlefield.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow's massive air and artillery attacks were aimed at destroying the entire Donbas region and urged Ukraine's allies to accelerate the shipment of heavy weapons to match Russia on the battlefield.

“Some would say once measures like masks and social distancing are dropped, it would be difficult to toggle them back on when needed in the future,” said Prof Salim Abdool Karim.

Leaders from the Group of Seven rich democracies and the NATO alliance will work to increase pressure on Russia over its war in Ukraine next week, while underscoring their continued concerns about China, senior US officials said on Wednesday.

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Health minister Dr Joe Phaahla on Wednesday repealed Covid-19 regulations governing the use of face masks and that people leaving SA or coming to SA must produce full vaccination certificates.

Final state capture report paints a grim picture of the state of SA’s leadership

President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked South Africans to believe both him and chief justice Raymond Zondo when they say there was nothing untoward in their communication with one another ahead of the release of the final instalment of the state capture ...

A fire broke out at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto on Wednesday.

Humanitarian aid organisation Gift of the Givers successfully sunk its fourth borehole at the Jose Pearson hospital in Nelson Mandela Bay on Wednesday afternoon.

Corruption, government inefficiency and a lack of transparency and accountability are the biggest hurdles to the development of rule of law in Africa, according to a new report.

SA inflation surged above the central bank’s target range for the first time in more than five years, raising the prospect of policy makers raising borrowing costs by the biggest margin in almost two decades this year.

A Johannesburg Water team was on Wednesday inspecting the line along Fuscia Road in Klipspruit West as they help in the search for a five-year-old boy who fell into a manhole while playing with friends in Soweto 10 days ago.

The European Union will temporarily shift back to coal to cope with slowing Russian gas flows, an EU official said on Wednesday, as a tight gas market and rocketing prices set off a race for alternative fuels.

More than 100 disgruntled community members from Mayville and surrounding areas gatecrashed a provincial council meeting in Durban on Wednesday demanding the government address their plight.

The poliovirus has been detected in several sewage samples in the British capital, the first sign since the 1980s that the virus could be spreading in the country.

Western Cape judge president John Hlophe's challenge to a gross misconduct finding will now move to the Supreme Court of Appeal after the high court on Wednesday granted him leave to appeal.

Libya's parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha said on Wednesday his government supported removing all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, guided by a committee set up to safeguard a ceasefire after the 2014-2020 conflict.

Hendrick Nicholas Hanse van Reinsburg has been handed two life sentences for the brutal rape of his former girlfriend, aged 20, in Mpumalanga.