City Power attributed the outage to the "after-effects" of extensive damage caused to power pylons by a falling tree.

One of Gauteng's most wanted alleged serial rapists was nabbed after he apparently returned to one of his victims, who he did not recognise as someone he had allegedly violated before.

Ace Magashule last year said the ANC was opposed to retrenchments at the public broadcaster.

Russia has registered the world’s first vaccine against Covid-19 for animals, the country’s agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said on Wednesday after tests showed it generated antibodies against the virus in dogs, cats, foxes and mink.

“You are the best. You served the nation, Africa and the world with distinction,” SABC's Sophie Mokoena tells axed colleagues.

Georgia overhauled a Civil War-era law Wednesday that allowed residents to arrest anyone they suspected of committing a crime — a “citizens arrest” law invoked by the defence of the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery last year.

Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has withdrawn his chancellorship of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, four months before his term is due to end.

The Eskom board offered a guarantee that Ishmael Semenya would be afforded any assistance he needed.

A Hong Kong court found seven prominent democrats guilty of unauthorised assembly charges, including 82-year-old barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, the latest blow to the city's beleaguered democracy movement.

The government gave the Land Bank a bailout of R3bn last year and R7bn last month while the bank negotiated with a consortium of its lenders on a "liability solution" to determine a new schedule of repayments.

YouTube stars Alan and Alex Stokes, twins known for provocative video gags, have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from two fake bank robberies they staged in California, one of which led to police drawing their guns on the brothers' unsuspecting Ub...

Several former and current SABC staff have reacted to the retrenchment of more than 600 employees at the broadcaster.

Doctors Without Borders said it had attended to a baby with a bullet wound and women who were "in shock, dehydrated and hadn't eaten for hours".

A black-owned company faces losing a multimillion-rand MultiChoice loan amid a legal dispute between its two founding partners.

The cause of Tiger Woods' February 23 car crash was determined, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced Wednesday, but the details weren't released publicly.

Bank scammers are likely to be on the prowl this Easter weekend, Standard Bank head of business risk and cybercrime, Carolina Reddy, has warned.

Myanmar Red Cross workers have been arrested, intimidated and injured on the front lines as they tried to treat mounting civilian casualties, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Thursday.

Chauvin, 45, and three other police officers arrested Floyd on suspicion he had used a fake $20 bill to buy cigarettes.

Police in the Californian city of Orange reported a shooting on Wednesday with “multiple victims at the scene including fatalities”, and local news media outlets said four people were killed before a suspect was arrested.

Arts organisation ASSITEJ South Africa has launched legal action against the National Arts Council over what it says is the maladministration of government's promised stimulus fund.

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SA recorded 1,422 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday.

Brazil has detected a new Covid-19 variant in Sao Paulo state that is similar to the one first seen in South Africa, the head of the state's Butantan biomedical institute said on Wednesday.

Eight CEOs of Gauteng health facilities have faced disciplinary charges for not complying with or overseeing health and safety measures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

StatsSA's annual "Non-financial Census of Municipalities" (NFCS) report for 2019 found that there were an estimated 2.9 million indigent households in SA.

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny declared a hunger strike on Wednesday in an attempt to force the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care for what he said was acute pain in his back and both legs.

Gunmen killed 30 people in an attack on a village in the west of the Ethiopian region of Oromiya late on Tuesday, witnesses said.

Princess Zenani Mandela-Dlamini says there will be no extravagant celebrations to mark the third anniversary of her mom's passing.