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Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:56:49 +0200
Three men found dead in overturned car near Durban highway
Three men were found dead in an overturned car near a Durban highway during the early hours of Sunday.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:54:45 +0200
Calm in Sri Lanka as president, premier to quit over economic collapse
Calm returned to the streets of Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo on Sunday and protesters were jubilant as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa agreed to resign after his house was stormed amid outrage over the South Asia nation's collapsing economy.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:35:26 +0200
Pietermaritzburg tavern shooting appears to be a 'random' act, say police
Police say the shooting at a Pietermaritzburg tavern on Saturday night that claimed the lives of four people and left eight injured was a random act.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 10:25:07 +0200
Police launch manhunt for armed gang in Soweto tavern massacre
A gang of men armed with rifles and 9mm pistols entered an Orlanda East tavern during the early hours of Sunday and allegedly opened fire on unsuspecting patrons.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:52:37 +0200
Pretoria teen dies after crashing car into pole
An underage driver died in a horrific crash in Pretoria in the early hours of Sunday morning, leaving two teenage passengers injured.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:36:09 +0200
Four dead and eight injured in Pietermaritzburg tavern shooting
Four people died in a mass shooting at a Pietermaritzburg tavern on Saturday night.

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 08:54:05 +0200
14 killed in Soweto tavern shooting
14 people died in a tavern shooting in Soweto in the early hours of Sunday.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 18:28:50 +0200
Media personality and raconteur Barry Ronge has died
Barry Ronge, former arts editor of the Sunday Times, passed away peacefully at the age of 74 in the arms of his life partner, Albertus van Dyk, on July 3.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:24:10 +0200
Western Cape police arrest more than 550 people in crime-prevention operations
Western Cape police arrested nearly 600 people during the week for crimes ranging from possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition to dealing in dagga, murder and domestic violence.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:45:17 +0200
Nobody has arrived to assist my daughter: mother of 13-year-old 'gang rape' victim
The mother of a 13-year old girl who was allegedly gang raped by three senior boys in an Eastern Cape school hostel says in spite of many promises of support and counselling from the Eastern Cape education department, her daughter has been left to fe...

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:22:24 +0200
Repairs to Durban aqueduct should be completed by Thursday, says Umgeni Water
A dry week looms for Durban residents while work continues to fix a leak in an aqueduct that transports raw water from Nagle Dam to the Durban Heights water treatment plant.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 15:33:42 +0200
Thieves bomb ATM at Johannesburg filling station and steal fuel
A dozen men allegedly bombed an ATM at a Johannesburg filling station and stole fuel on Saturday morning.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:44:56 +0200
North West cop arrested for ‘robbing business of cigarettes’
A North West police officer may have puffed his job goodbye after he allegedly robbed a local business of cigarettes.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:13:45 +0200
Gauteng cops seize R10m in stolen copper, arrest four
Gauteng police have recovered R10m worth of stolen copper in Lenasia, Johannesburg

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 12:22:27 +0200
Family members convicted of killing 92-year-old relative they accused of witchcraft
Eastern Cape family members have been convicted of killing a 92-year-old relative they accused of witchcraft.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:46:55 +0200
WATCH | Sri Lanka protesters, angered by economic meltdown, storm president's house
Thousands of protesters in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo stormed the president's official residence and his secretariat on Saturday amid months of mounting public anger over the country's worst economic crisis in seven decades.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:36:19 +0200
Multidisciplinary task team to investigate crime within Eskom: police commissioner Fannie Masemola
The police have established a multi-disciplinary task team to investigate crimes committed at Eskom.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:33:46 +0200
Pit bull puppies being trained for fighting rescued by SPCA
The SPCA and the City of Cape Town’s animal control unit have rescued three pit bull terrier puppies that were being trained for fighting.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 10:16:51 +0200
Japanese mourn ex-PM Shinzo Abe a day after his assassination
A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 09:39:24 +0200
Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44bn deal
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44bn deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 08:30:00 +0200
UKRAINE UPDATES | Russian rockets hit apartment building in Ukraine's Donbas, US presses on diplomatic front
Ukraine updates.

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 08:25:00 +0200
West seeks to unblock Ukraine's grain ports, Putin warns of energy 'catastrophe'
Ukraine's Western allies on Friday urged Russia to allow Kyiv to ship grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far away from the battlefields.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 21:07:55 +0200
Ancient jawbone could give glimpse of Europe's earliest humans
Archaeologists in Spain said on Friday they had dug up an ancient jawbone that could help them look into the face of some of the earliest human ancestors in Europe.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:58:59 +0200
Four US border agency employees could face discipline over treatment of Haitian migrants
Four employees from US Customs and Border Protection have been referred for disciplinary review over their treatment of Haitian migrants who they sought to push back across the Rio Grande using horses last September, CBP officials said on Friday as t...

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:45:06 +0200
Biden signs executive order on abortion, declares Supreme Court 'out of control'
US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive order on Friday to help protect access to services to terminate pregnancies.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:33:52 +0200
Firefighters, aircraft fight blaze near France's Mediterranean coast
Airborne French firefighters and hundreds of emergency crew managed to bring a wildfire near the Mediterranean coast under control on Friday, although it will take days to extinguish the blaze, local authorities said.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:09:31 +0200
Zephany Nurse's kidnapper's parole to be reconsidered in July 2023
The Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) on Friday deemed it necessary for the woman who kidnapped Zephany Nurse to undergo further interventions as part of her rehabilitation.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:13:52 +0200
Sandton nightclub owner jailed for defrauding property traders
Sandton nightclub owner and convicted scammer Abdul Olatunji was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court on the same day he was charged with another fraud case.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:37:59 +0200
Businesses still not confident in KZN after July unrest: Durban Chamber CEO
One year after the July unrest investor confidence in the province of KwaZulu-Natal is yet to be restored with many businesses across the country weary of whether their money remains safe.

Fri, 08 Jul 2022 18:30:46 +0200
Former UK finance minister Sunak bids to replace PM Johnson
Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson after he announced the previous day he would stand down as prime minister .



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