Bribery money offered to police officers conducting a raid at a guest house in Ballito on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast has been forfeited to the state, the Hawks confirmed on Thursday.

A ruling this month by Uganda's Constitutional Court to water down a tough anti-LGBTQ+ law may have stemmed from concern to avoid further international sanctions over the controversial legislation, rights activists and analysts say.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven major democracies met on the Italian island of Capri on Wednesday for three days of talks overshadowed by expectations of an Israeli retaliation against Iran for missile and drone attacks.

Parts of eastern Pretoria have been without power since Wednesday evening after the Mooikloof substation caught fire and triggered a trip at Nyala in-feed station.

The US has barred four former officials of the Malawi government from entry because of their involvement in corruption, the state department said on Wednesday.

The case against a woman accused of defrauding the South African Social Security Agency of more than R100,000 while a company registered to her apparently scored SAPS tenders worth millions has been postponed to July.

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Iraqi and US companies signed a series of agreements on Wednesday to capture natural gas traditionally flared from Iraq's oilfields and use it to produce domestic power while reducing dependence on neighbouring Iran for energy.

EU leaders decided on Wednesday to step up sanctions against Iran after Tehran's missile and drone attack on Israel left world powers scrambling to prevent a wider conflict in the Middle East.

China and Indonesia have pledged to strengthen economic ties and maintain peace and stability in the region, China's foreign minister Wang Yi said on Thursday after a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart, Retno Marsudi, in Jakarta.

Oil prices were little changed after a 3% drop in the previous session as the market remains concerned about demand this year and on signs that a wider conflict in the key Middle East producing region could be avoided.

Finance leaders from the Group of Seven industrial democracies on Wednesday condemned Iran's attack on Israel and pledged to continue work on “all possible avenues” to harness frozen Russian sovereign assets to aid Ukraine.

An 44-year-old on-duty police sergeant was shot dead in Mamre in the Western Cape on Wednesday.

The NGO which hosted the camp where two pupils drowned said it would communicate with the school first before commenting on allegations of abuse

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Three suspects who were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the kidnapping of Chinese national Lu Xiao last week are expected to appear in the Uitenhage magistrate's court on Thursday.

Businessman Justin Peter King has been added as the 21st accused in the University of Fort Hare (UFH) fraud and corruption case.

The bail application for Pinetown soldier Lwanda Zungu, who is charged with shooting his wife Tania multiple times at their home in January, is pending to allow the magistrate to gain clarity on some technical issues.

Pictures of a firearm, a murder article and a lawyer's phone number were among the data extracted from the accused's cellphones.

Israel has clearly decided to retaliate against Iran for missile and drone attacks, Britain's foreign minister David Cameron said during a visit to Israel on Wednesday, the starkest warning yet of another volley coming in regional escalation.

The United Nations appealed on Wednesday for $2.8bn (R53.37bn) in funding to assist more than 3-million people in Gaza and the West Bank until the end of the year, to help ease food shortages and prevent looming famine in Gaza.

The US, South Korea and Japan are pushing for a new multinational panel of experts, possibly outside the UN, to ensure sanctions enforcement against North Korea after Russia and China thwarted monitoring activities at the world body, three sources sa...

Half of Denmark's Old Stock Exchange was completely burnt-out with only outer walls remaining after flames engulfed the building and caused the roof to collapse in Tuesday's devastating fire, Danish officials said on Wednesday.

At least eight people were were shot dead in three separate shootings in the early hours of Wednesday at Harare in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.

PetroSA expects the first flows of gas into the country from a deal with Mozambique's national energy company ENH later this year, officials said, amid efforts to shore up supplies ahead of a potentially crippling shortage.

North West police are mourning the loss of one of their own who was shot dead during a botched robbery.

Statistics South Africa says annual consumer price index (CPI) inflation dropped from 5.6% in February to 5.3% in March, returning to the level it settled at in January.

No-one from the Gauteng education department or district knew about the excursion where two pupils from Daveyton Skills School drowned on Monday afternoon.