The Drakensberg resembled a winter wonderland on Sunday morning as snow fell over some parts.

China has issued stark private warnings to the Biden administration about a possible trip to Taiwan in August by US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.

Ukraine was pressing ahead on Sunday with efforts to restart grain exports from Odesa and other Black Sea ports after a missile attack that cast doubt over whether Russia would honour a deal aimed at easing global food shortages caused by the war.

The rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak represents a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation's highest level of alert, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday.

Gus Thompson, the father of former South African Olympic-medallist rower James Thompson, was found dead on Chapmans Peak in Cape Town on Saturday, more than a week after he disappeared from a frail-care facility in Noordhoek.

The Hawks have seized counterfeit Ford and Volkswagen vehicle parts worth R150,000 in Gauteng.

Western Cape police have made a number of arrests over the past few days, with charges ranging from unlawful possession of firearms to organised crime.

Barely two days after family members buried 13 of 16 victims of a tavern shooting in Soweto, two more people were killed in a similar incident on Friday, this time in Ga-Rankuwa, northwest of Pretoria.

Lawyers for Human Rights has thrown cold water on a state oversight visit to the Eastern Cape to assess the living and working conditions of farmworkers, farm dwellers and tenants.

Three "illegal" scrap dealers have been arrested for the theft of a Transnet copper cable worth R1m in KwaZulu-Natal.

Three health department officials embroiled in the controversial R150m Digital Vibes communications contract have been found guilty.

Retailers should soon be allowed to set their own price for 93-octane petrol after minister of mineral resources and energy Gwede Mantashe published a gazette calling for public comment on this decision.

People in the Cape can start lighting their fireplaces and arranging extra blankets, with a cold front already moving over SA — and in parts of the Eastern Cape and Lesotho snow is expected to start falling by Saturday afternoon.

Some areas experience power cuts that last up to 48 hours

One of the men accused of brutally murdering e-hailing driver Abongile Mafalala applied for bail in the Wynberg magistrate’s court in Cape Town on Friday.

Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease an international food crisis while the US pledged more military support five months into the invasion.

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Kaizer Chiefs founder and chair Kaizer Motaung was on Friday conferred an honorary doctorate by the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Eight people have been arrested after a botched truck hijacking in Ekurhuleni on Friday, said Gauteng police.

Some of the children who died at the Enyobeni tavern last month were victims of theft as they lay dead on the tavern floor, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.

The state has notified the Pretoria high court it intends to lodge an "unreasonable delay" application in the R1.8bn Bosasa fraud and corruption case in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act.

Along a stretch of hundreds of kilometres of frontline that winds through the south and east of the country, lie ghost villages like Mala Tokmachka.

A resident in Crosby, Johannesburg, says he was given permission to flip a switch at the tripped substation where he sustained an electric shock on Wednesday.

The bail application of a farmer facing two counts of attempted murder and one of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm has been postponed to Tuesday while the Ermelo magistrate’s court waits for medical reports.

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Three suspects have been arrested and another detained for questioning in connection with the murder of Surprise Mkhwanazi.

Steve Bannon’s defense team was advised by a judge to not make a “political circus” out of his criminal contempt trial for refusing to cooperate with the House committee probing the Capitol riot.

US social-media companies are poised to see more than $76 billion wiped off their stock-market values Friday, after disappointing revenue from Snap Inc. and a lackluster report from Twitter Inc. raised concerns about the outlook for online advertisin...

The department said on Friday it had captured more than 165,000 grade 1 and 8 admission applications for next year by noon on Friday.

The trial of the three men accused of killing Hillary Gardee has been postponed to August 22 for preparation of the indictment.