While the prosecuting team in Jacob Zuma’s arms deal-related corruption and fraud trial says judge Piet Koen should continue to preside over the matter, the former president says he must go.

A group of 21 children who were abducted by gunmen last week from a farm in northwestern Nigeria's Katsina state were freed and reunited with their families on Saturday, police said.

Elon Musk said on Sunday Twitter users engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying it as a "parody" account will be permanently suspended without a warning.

Delegates at the the UN's COP27 climate summit in Egypt agreed to discuss whether rich nations should compensate poor countries most vulnerable to climate change for their suffering.

Eastern Cape police have launched a manhunt for suspects involved in the murder of two elderly women in Mqanduli at the weekend.

Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented daily from Monday from 4pm to 5am "until further notice", says Eskom.

The former president said the use of money to buy positions meant that Ramaphosa was not elected properly and democratically

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Two of the 12 inmates who escaped from custody at Komatipoort police station, Mpumalanga, on Saturday evening have been re-arrested at the Lebombo border while trying to cross into Mozambique.

An already record-breaking US Powerball jackpot grew to a whopping $1.9bn (about R34bn) after no one secured a winning ticket in Saturday night's drawing, according to lottery officials.

A Precision Air flight carrying 43 people made a crash landing into Lake Victoria on Sunday while attempting to reach a nearby airport in Tanzania, the airline said.

At least eleven people died in Gauteng from malaria between January and September.

Several matric pupils in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, the Eastern Cape, North West, Western Cape, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape were found with crib notes during examinations this week.

The North West department of community safety said it has spent R780,000 on acquiring 20 donkey carts which it has given to villagers in the Dibono and Manwana districts outside Mahikeng.

Eskom has suspended load-shedding from midday on Sunday.

Sudan's military leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan confirmed on Sunday that talks on a new political framework for the country were being held, but he warned the former ruling party in harsh words not to interfere with the military or in politics...

The KwaZulu-Natal provincial government on Sunday said it was roping in experts to understand the "minor earthquakes" which have reportedly shaken the province over the last two days.

Nearly 200 countries gathering for the UN climate conference in Egypt are expected to lock horns over whether rich nations should pay compensation to vulnerable states hit by climate-fuelled disasters.

A passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while attempting to land in stormy weather at an airport in the lakeside city of Bukoba, the state broadcaster said.

The bodies of three children who drowned in a river at Port St Johns have been recovered, Eastern Cape police said on Sunday.

Sri Lankan cricket authorities said on Sunday that Danushka Gunathilaka, a member of their team for the T20 World Cup tournament in Australia, had been arrested in Sydney over an alleged sexual assault.

The community of Mabopane outside Pretoria have carried out a citizen arrest and nabbed one of three men implicated in a house robbery and fatal shooting of a local police officer.

The United States is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war and did not seriously wish to engage in peace talks.

China on Sunday reported its highest number of new Covid-19 infections in six months, a day after health officials said they were sticking with strict coronavirus curbs, likely disappointing recent investor hopes for an easing.

Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru on Saturday to demand the resignation of embattled President Pedro Castillo, a leftist whose government is under investigation for corruption.

A total of 53 matric pupils in Gauteng could not write the economics paper 1 on Tuesday because of community protests.

Economic sanctions, the primary means the US has used for years to try to exert pressure on North Korea, have abjectly failed to halt its nuclear and missile programmes or to bring the reclusive northeast Asian state back to the negotiating table.