Protesters calling for the urgent decriminalisation of sex work to protect people in the sector gathered outside the Johannesburg magistrate's court on Tuesday.

Load-shedding in 2022 has surpassed anything South Africa has ever experienced, according to independent data specialists The Outlier.

A Lesotho party led by a diamond magnate won the most seats in last week's election, but fell short of an overall majority, the election commission said on Monday, raising the prospect of more political gridlock.

Panama's National Migration Service said on Monday that 151,582 migrants made the crossing between January and September, fleeing poverty and violence with the hope of reaching the US.

Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says there has been a decline in the number of applications approved for the R350 social relief of distress grant (SRD).

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.

New Zealand's conservation office on Tuesday said all 240 pilot whales stranded on the remote Pitt Island have died, just days after 215 whales died on a beach on nearby Chatham Island.

If his son was found guilty of the heinous crime he was accused of, the father said he should account for his actions.

Air Senegal will suspend flights on its Central Africa route serving Cotonou in Benin, Douala in Cameroon and Libreville from Oct. 30 due to lack of business, it said on Monday.

The Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat), which advocates for law reform of the sex work industry in South Africa, says it is aware of at least three sex workers who have been reported missing since July in the Johannesburg area.

Hong Kong leader John Lee said on Tuesday there was "no legal basis" for the city to act on Western sanctions, when asked about a Russian yacht berthed in the financial centre that belongs to a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

Western Cape judge president John Hlophe participated in Judicial Service Commission interviews for the Western Cape High Court on Monday - despite being recommended for suspension and being referred to parliament for possible impeachment for gross m...

Six people were killed and five injured in a collision between a bakkie and a car near Port Edward on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast on Monday afternoon.

Hundreds of Transnet workers downed tools and picketed outside the parastatal in Bluff, Durban, amid the negotiations deadlock.

Another arrest has been made in connection with the cooking oil stolen during an armed robbery at Willowton Group’s off-site warehouses in Kempton Park last Wednesday.

The Hawks arrested 20 suspects alleged to be involve in illegal mining activities in Stilfontein in the North West on Monday.

The 21-year-old man was arrested after the discovery of six bodies in central Johannesburg

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has been alerted to dubious health products being traded by an Indian company, Maiden Pharmaceuticals.

Johannesburg’s hot weather and load-shedding led to a drop in Johannesburg Water’s ability to fill reservoirs and towers, leaving residents in high-lying areas with low pressure and in some cases no water at all.

Eskom says the Lesedi local municipality in Gauteng has failed to honour its August account due on September 28, taking its debt to R112m.

Judge Tebogo Djaje gets the nod for North West deputy judge president from the Judicial Service Commission

While many taxpayers struggle to make ends meet, ministers and their deputies - who earn a salary of between R2.5 and R2m a year - do not pay anything for municipal services such as water and electricity at their official residences.

Germany said on Monday it aimed to urgently implement a 96-billion euro ($93bn) plan to ease pressure on consumers from surging gas prices as it was warned the supply situation heading into winter remained tense even with full reserves.

While the means test threshold to qualify to be a recipient of the social relief of distress grant has been increased from R350 to R624, social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says they may have to consider a further adjustment to the threshold to ...

President Vladimir Putin may meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan this week to discuss a Turkish proposal to host talks between Russia and the West on Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Applications by Karyn Maughan and Billy Downer, it emerged on Monday, will now be heard together in early December — and the private prosecution will be put on hold until the outcome of those, in early February.

Is it futuristic and funky, or a road sign gone wrong?

The six victims found dead at a building in a semi-industrial area of the Johannesburg city centre had been tied up, according to eyewitnesses.

Another heatwave can be expected in parts of the country this week.

Incessant rain lashed parts of northern India on Monday forcing schools to close in several cities as an unusually late rainy season prolonged havoc across the country, and killed 18 people over the past 24 hours.