Episode 98 of 'True Crime South Africa' explores the tragic deaths of a loving mother and father whose greatest crime was trying too hard to guide their wayward child.

As final exams draw to an end, the education department in Mpumalanga has appealed to pupils to refrain from attending and hosting “pens down” parties.

Sabotage of Eskom equipment and coal syndicates are among the criminal activities contributing to one stage of load-shedding.

The Durban restaurant where Jacob Zuma was seen — wining and dining, and posing with his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik — is not named after him, says its owner David Manal.

A landslide in Cameroon's capital Yaounde on Sunday killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the region's governor said.

The high court in Gqeberha is on Monday hearing an application for leave to appeal by Shell, the minister of mineral resources & energy and Impact Africa.

While rain pounded on the N3 near the Mariannhill toll plaza in KwaZulu-Natal, motorists looted a truck that had overturned on Sunday night.

The Cape of Good Hope SPCA is offering a R5,000 reward for information that could lead to the identification, arrest and prosecution of the people involved in killing three pit bulls in Gatesville, Athlone.

As many as 36 police were injured in clashes with protesters in India's southern state of Kerala who were demanding the release of a person arrested during a demonstration against a $900-million port project of the Adani Group, officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia would certainly launch new missile attacks on his country and warned defence forces and citizens to prepare to withstand another week of strain on the power grid as snow fell in Kyiv.

The lawyer for a former US military pilot arrested in Australia and facing possible extradition to the US said his client was wrongly classified as an "extreme high risk" prisoner, and he had asked the attorney-general to release him.

A small plane crashed into high-voltage power lines about 30 miles north of Washington, DC, on Sunday, causing mass outages, with rescue services working into the night to rescue two people on board the aircraft still entangled in the cables.

A case of reckless and negligent driving is under investigation against the motorist, who was seriously hurt in the crash.

Uncovering the Bulgarian mafia in South Africa and a look at how an illegal drug operation blossomed into a huge smuggling syndicate.

The SA Post Office (Sapo) has encouraged motorists who live in remote areas or lead busy lives to make use of its online platform to renew their car licences.

Police spokesperson Col Malesela Ledwaba said preliminary investigations revealed the victim was part of a group of pupils participating in camping classes in preparation for the examinations.

While some applauded him for removing the post and owning up to a "mistake", others said he could not "apologise and then insult in the same sentence".

Suspected Al-Shabaab militants have attacked a hotel used by government officials in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, a police officer told Reuters on Sunday.

Despite small outbreaks, numbers remain stable ahead of festive season: expert

The Bulgarian mafia’s planted their roots in SA with an illegal drug operation in 2014

As boys, we dream of being protagonists in her novels. As men, most of us mature and move on. If we don’t, that’s a problem

Boitumelo Nkatlo, Edmund Wessels and Deon Neveling are the three SA nominees among 15 African pioneers

Digging up fields, recreation areas and yards is a lucrative business as the Eastern European country grapples with unemployment and energy shortages

The percentage of organisms lost is similar to these other events, including this ongoing one, paper says

Jan Karsten, one of the youngest contestants at the African Junior Champs, comes out on top without losing a single match

A 37-year-old Port Alfred woman was mauled to death on Sunday morning by dogs while on her way to work.

Eskom says load-shedding will be suspended at midnight on Sunday and resume at stage 1 on Monday from 5am to 4pm.

Violent crime has rocked Gauteng schools on five occasions so far during the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations.

The bodies of three men beaten to death were found inside an abandoned vehicle outside a former police training college in Limpopo.

Pakistan has halted payments for in-app purchases including online video games bought by local customers using airtime from telecommunications companies, the latest sign of distress caused by the country’s depleted foreign-exchange reserves.