A former Red Cross Hospital employee and a service provider have been slapped with 10-year jail sentences for fraud.

An immigration official at Beitbridge home affairs has been handed a four-year jail sentence for taking a R300 bribe.

South Africans should brace themselves for a dark weekend after Eskom implemented stage 4 load-shedding.

The National Treasury has voiced its opposition to a campaign by the department of social development and civil rights groups for stipends to be paid to millions of the country’s poorest citizens on a permanent basis.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the nation’s army has recaptured “more than 30 settlements” in the Kharkiv region, with units of the National Police moving in as Russian forces are expelled.

The body of a four-year-old boy, Mpenduko Ngcukani, who was reported missing on July 30, was found next to the N11 road near Middelburg in Mpumalanga on Friday, about 5km from his home.

The second witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Sgt Patrick Mlungisi Mthethwa, on Friday said he did not find any evidence when police inspected the kitchen counter at the Vosloorus house where Meyiwa was shot in 2014.

The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) in KwaZulu-Natal attached a Pretoria property belonging to businesswoman Nandi Sakhile Msimang on Friday.

King Charles III pledged “lifelong service” to his subjects in his first televised address to the nation as monarch, in which he paid tribute to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II.

New York declared a state of emergency over polio in an effort to boost vaccination rates after evidence of the virus’s spread mounted when it was found in wastewater samples in Nassau County on Long Island.

R. Kelly was ordered to surrender nearly $28,000 in his prison inmate account to be applied towards $140,000 in unpaid criminal fines as well as possible restitution to his sexual-abuse victims.

Two suspects appeared in the Vosloorus magistrate’s court on Friday for their alleged role in a corrupt syndicate that duped unsuspecting land buyers in Ekurhuleni.

Media24 has confirmed the suspension of two senior journalists accused of extortion.

Poland is interested in buying power from Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi nuclear plant, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in Kyiv on Friday after talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Speech comes as Britain and the world mourn the loss of the globe’s oldest monarch

Acting Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka says the public protector's office was paying for the suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's legal fees.

Nigeria's crude oil production fell below 1 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, figures from its regulator show, as the nation grappled with rampant theft from its pipelines and years of underinvestment.

Some people with disabilities in Ukraine remain trapped in life-threatening situations and must be evacuated to ensure they can access basic needs like food and heating as winter approaches, the UN disability rights committee said on Friday.

EU imports of Ukrainian chicken soar after quota lifted, French group says

Britain's new monarch King Charles stopped to get out of his car while arriving at Buckingham Palace on Friday and shook hands with members of the public, after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth on Thursday.

The full bench of the Western Cape High Court on Friday declared invalid President Cyril Ramaphosa's suspension of public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane.

Catherine Dedman was having supper while on holiday in Margate on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast in 2014 when she received news that she had become a dame.

A KwaZulu-Natal principal has been fatally shot, allegedly when he tried to intervene in a dispute between a gunman and a teacher at his school on Thursday.

City Press has suspended two senior journalists following allegations of extortion.

Advocate Zandile Mshololo told Sgt Patrick Mlungisi Mthethwa at his cross-examination on Friday that had he not left the crime scene unprotected, it would not have been cleaned.

A look at the late Queen Elizabeth's complicated history with Zimbabwe.

A court interpreter's stand-off with a defence attorney in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial on Thursday has gone viral.

Images of spinning hole in ocean lead experts to speculate on the cause.

According to Sassa, among other reasons, payment delays were due to beneficiaries repeatedly changing their bank details.

More than a dozen school pupils were injured in a minibus taxi accident on the M19 near Reservoir Hills, Durban, at about 7am on Friday.