A video of the former president dancing to music with children at his Nkandla homestead went viral this week.

What did two matric pupils do to deserve such brutal deaths? This is the question plaguing family members and friends of Nqobile Zulu and Minenhle Buthelezi, who were attacked in their rented cottage in southern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday night.

“It is a very unfortunate development in SA, but not a new one. SA is infested with a cancer of criminality from head to toe," Eswatini government spokesperson Alpheus Nxumalo said.

Social media used to be a source of light entertainment for Nora, a 47-year-old Zimbabwean domestic worker living in South Africa. But lately, it has become a source of fear.

Gauteng human settlements, urban planning and co-operative governance MEC Lebogang Maile is expected to visit Thembisa on Wednesday morning.

Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm to midnight on Wednesday and Thursday.

Yemen's warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years.

An Indigenous Australian parliamentarian was instructed to retake her oath of office on Monday after she changed it to label Britain's queen a coloniser.

The Law Society of SA’s National Wills Week campaign presents the ideal opportunity to have a basic will drafted.

Three-quarters of the global public are concerned about the cost of goods and services increasing over the next six months.

Africa is dealing with at least six significant disease outbreaks aside from Covid-19 and monkeypox, including the Marburg virus, Lassa fever, cholera, measles and wild polio, putting strain on often limited resources.

For Palestinians living on the crowded Gaza Strip, a searing summer heatwave has been made worse by power cuts that leave them without electricity for as much as 10 hours a day.

From the fourth year of schooling, most schools teach all subjects in English only.

Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Tuesday named a co-founder and spokesman of the Islamist al Shabaab as minister for religious affairs, a move that could either help strengthen the fight against the insurgents or provoke further clan clashes...

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

Jet fuel made from solar technology can help the aviation industry become carbon neutral, scientists say.

"There are external forces taking advantage of the situation. The same situation we saw in July last year when criminality took over real issues communities wanted to address," claimed the Ekurhuleni mayor.

Russia has accused the US of direct involvement in the Ukraine war, while the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow's invasion is due to be inspected in Turkey on Wednesday.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations will be forced to reconsider a peace plan agreed with Myanmar if the country's military rulers conduct more executions of prisoners, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday.

More than 37,000 vehicle licences have been renewed nationally through the SA Post Office's online system, most of them in Gauteng.

Speaking at the opening of Women's Month, the minister described the attacks as "despicable" and called for justice.

As of this week, the health department will publish Covid-19 surveillance data weekly.

A child who contracted the highly infectious Ebola-like Marburg virus in Ghana has died, a World Health Organization official said on Tuesday.

China furiously condemned the highest-level US visit to Taiwan in 25 years as House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the self-ruled island as "one of the freest societies in the world" in a speech to the parliament in Taipei on Wednesda...

Ukraine updates.

The Gauteng health department said on Tuesday no warning letter was given to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital clinician Dr Tim de Maayer.

Gauteng police on Tuesday arrested 46 more suspected illegal miners in the Krugersdorp area, west of Johannesburg

The city of Ekurhuleni says because of the protests in Thembisa over the past few days, burial services in the township have been cancelled

Experts are also concerned about availability of smallpox vaccines as rich nations position themselves to potentially hoard supplies

This week four people were killed and several buildings were gutted in service delivery protests in Thembisa