Prison cells housing more than 1,900 inmates, some serving multiple life sentences, were swept during a raid at St Albans Correctional Facility on Thursday night.

A Cape Town dance centre has added light to the gloomy times facing the country with its win at the 2022 Hip Hop Unite World Championships.

Leaders and heads of governments from the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have come to the Thai capital Bangkok for a meeting on Friday and Saturday.

Shell has completed a scheduled maintenance at its 200,000 barrels-per-day Bonga deep water storage and offloading vessel in Nigeria, a spokesperson said.

Police minister Bheki Cele said his phone has been ringing non-stop.

A Vietnamese court on Friday jailed a dissident for eight years for anti-state activities after he posted on social media commentary critical of the Communist Party and its handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Women and girls around the world will suffer a knock-on effect from the US decision to roll back abortion rights, experts say, predicting a global clampdown on hard-won female freedoms.

Meyiwa's long-time friend, Tumelo Madlala, is expected to take the stand this morning to continue with his cross-examination.

The World Cup enters its 92nd year when the Fifa tournament kicks off in Qatar this weekend.

Pope Francis reiterated on Friday the Vatican was ready to do anything possible to mediate and put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the pontiff said in an interview with Italian daily La Stampa.

Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for “long hours at high intensity,” or leave.

One person died and four others were injured when a truck crashed into a delivery vehicle that broke down in the emergency lane on Durban’s N2 freeway on Friday.

North Korea fired a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that Japanese officials said had sufficient range to reach the mainland of the United States and that landed just 200 kilometres (130 miles) off Japan.

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A pupil from Hoërskool Kriel in the Emalahleni municipality in Mpumalanga allegedly hanged himself inside the school premises.

Residents in the small village of Tantseka, in the Sithebe administrative area near Qunu in the Eastern Cape, have been left terrified after seven people died in a hail of bullets late on Wednesday.

"Let's admit it. South Africa under the ANC government is a 'World Cup of Crime'," said Mashaba.

Eskom on Friday announced it was implementing stage 4 load-shedding.

A form parents had to sign asked them to indicate whether their child was lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or intersex

Zandile Mshololo, advocate for one of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case, on Thursday continued to pour water on the testimony of Meyiwa’s best friend Tumelo Madlala that there were intruders who entered the Vosloorus home where Meyiwa was...

Rabbit owners should ensure their animals are secured and must prevent any contact with other rabbits or hares, either directly or indirectly through people or equipment.

Fifty-seven measles cases were reported in Limpopo and Mpumalanga between September 1 and November 16.

Pelosi has played a central role in getting Democratic President Joe Biden's legislative agenda through Congress, as she did previously for Democratic President Barack Obama.

A grade 11 pupil from Qalabotjha Secondary School in Vlakfontein, Lenasia South, was stabbed and later died on Thursday afternoon.

The KZN MEC for human settlements and public works said by next week the number of centres will have been further reduced

A SA Revenue Service employee Malatse Kolokoto was on Thursday sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment by the Palm Ridge magistrate’s court for accepting a bribe at the OR Tambo International Airport in August 2019.

Eight-year old Olebogeng Mosime was remembered by his teacher and school friends at Roseview Primary School in a memorial service on Thursday.

The matter of the second docket in the Senzo Meyiwa trial again caused an objection on Thursday morning during defence lawyer Zandile Mshololo's cross-examination of the state's first eyewitness, Meyiwa's friend Tumelo Madlala.

The convicted murderers of KwaZulu-Natal cattle farmers Glen Rafferty, 63, and Vida Homann Rafferty, 60, have each been sentenced to life and 21 years' imprisonment.

Its official: a basket of Woolworths groceries has cost a Durban man his Mercedes-Benz C300 coupé.