Acting public protector Kholeka Gcaleka has cleared public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan in the complaint by the EFF's Floyd Shivambu about the appointment of his chief of staff, Nthabiseng Borotho.

Multinational management consulting firm McKinsey & Co has been charged by the National Prosecuting Authority in connection with the R398.4m Transnet fraud case linked to state capture.

Heavy gunfire was heard coming from the main military camp and some residential areas of Burkina Faso's capital early on Friday morning, Reuters reporters said.

Two teenagers in Mpumalanga and a diver in the Western Cape drowned after experiencing difficulties on Thursday.

More hijackings are reported from Wednesdays and Fridays between 4pm and 8pm.

The opportunities are open to youth in all nine provinces, with vacancies at around 20,000 ordinary public schools and schools for pupils with special education needs.

Acting public protector Kholeka Gcaleka is expected to release finalised investigative reports on Friday.

One of Apple Inc’s most senior executives is leaving after he turned up in a viral video on TikTok making an off-colour joke that he fondles “big-breasted women” for a living.

Africa’s biggest retailer is pulling back after trying to build a continentwide operation.

A suicide attack at an education institute in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed 19 people and wounded dozens, police said on Friday, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley will deliver the 20th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on November 12 in solidarity with the people of KwaZulu-Natal after April's devastating floods.

Health minister Joe Phaahla is expected to brief the media on Friday about the impact of rolling blackouts on health services.

Prize-winning Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was found guilty of staging an anti-government protest and received a six-month suspended jail sentence and a fine, a court ruled on Thursday.

The Hawks have arrested eight people, including a former human settlements director and city manager in the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan municipality, in connection with a Covid-19 toilet tender.

Four years after Hartbeespoort businessman and lawyer Hartley Sandy Ngoato was assaulted and called the K-word while boating at the Hartbeespoort Schoemansville Oewer Club, the man responsible for the assault and using the swear word is serving time...

Hong Kong will give away 500,000 plane tickets to lure visitors back to the financial hub when the government removes all remaining restrictions on inbound arrivals, local media outlet Sing Tao reported in a column, citing people it didn’t identify...

Former Somerset College pupil accuses school of racial, Islamophobic and homophobic prejudice

Having grown up in a rural area, Lungile Hadebe made it her mission to find a cost-effective, safe solution for water purification

Parents complain of ‘dire’ state of Rosslyn Primary School but education department pours water on their claims

Department of arts and culture ignores court order to take contract staff into full-time employment

A grade 6 pupil from Mphe-Thuto Primary School in Ga-Mohale in Mogale City died on Thursday afternoon after falling under a moving scholar transport bus.

Cuba had begun to progressively restore power to the capital Havana by early on Thursday, according to Reuters witnesses and official reports, but vast swaths of the Caribbean island nation still remained in the dark following the passage of Hurrican...

Energy company workers in Peru discovered a dozen centuries-old tombs from pre-Inca cultures during the construction of a gas pipeline, according to the project's archaeologists, in the latest find from the South American country's rich ancient past.

A former US Army major and his anesthesiologist wife have been criminally charged for allegedly plotting to leak highly sensitive healthcare data about military patients to Russia, the Justice Department revealed on Thursday.

Germany's foreign minister said on Thursday she wanted the European Union to impose sanctions on Iran following the death of a young woman in police custody and the subsequent crackdown on protesters.

Wall Street tumbled on Thursday on worries of a global economic downturn from aggressive central bank policy and fears that a rout in global currency and debt markets could spillover to stocks.

President broke his silence on questions around his game farm

Global consultancy firm Bain & Co says it disagrees with a 10 year ban imposed on it by National Treasury from doing business with the state and said it was considering its options in response to this decision.

The Gauteng department of education is aware of the overcrowding at Lawley Secondary School in the south of Johannesburg which has resulted in learners attending school on a rotational basis.

The Nelspruit sexual offences court has sentenced a man who raped his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter in 2017  to 22 years’ imprisonment.