The Louisiana State Police unit involved in the deadly May 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene is under investigation over whether its officers are systematically targeting black motorists for abuse, AP reported on Wednesday.

The number of children involved in child labour has risen for the first time in 20 years, the UN said on Thursday, with one in 10 children in work worldwide and millions more at risk due to Covid-19.

The University of Pretoria’s swimming team as well as the elite athletes who train at its spotless facility are fortunate to have Abel Mokoena, who enables their dreams and carries them in his heart.

Police in China arrested more than 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder illegal proceeds from telephone and internet scams in a recent crackdown, the ministry of public security said.

A lion has been spotted roaming in the area of the Buffelsdrift Conservancy, which lies on the western boundary of the Dinokeng reserve, between the Roodeplaat Dam and the N1, north of Pretoria.

A few months ago it was a packed Covid-19 field hospital, and within weeks the Cape Town Internatioonal Convention Centre will be a mass vaccination centre capable of administering 4,000 jabs daily.

A 28-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man was handed down a 20-year jail sentence for the murder of his five-months pregnant girlfriend in December.

Heads are set to roll at the Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Umlazi, south of Durban, after the emergence of a video showing a patient at her home with a gaping open wound, after she was allegedly discharged from the public hospital.

Kaimu interrupted the host, saying: "No. We are not going to do that. You’re just going to greet me and say 'take it away'."

A group of 79 company bosses and investors managing $41 trillion issued separate calls on Thursday for world leaders to accelerate action on climate change by enacting more ambitious policies in areas including carbon pricing.

At least 11 people, including eight children, died after a Mumbai residential building collapsed on top of another building late on Wednesday, local officials said.

Social media firms wanting to operate in Nigeria must register a local entity and be licensed, the country's information minister said on Wednesday, the government's latest move since it banned Twitter last week.

According to the Institute for Security Studies, by the end of May this year, all nine provinces in the country had experienced a drought in 2021 while the Western Cape had also seen a series of devastating wildfires.

SA and India, backed by many emerging nations, have been pushing for eight months for a temporary waiver of IP rights on vaccines

The Indian-born brothers, who have repeatedly denied wrongdoing, are believed to be in Dubai where they own property and businesses.

Disgruntled community members this week torched five houses in a village in the Tshilwavhusiku area in Limpopo, police said.

A construction worker was left in a critical condition after being crushed by a tractor in eThekwini on Wednesday morning, paramedics said.

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TB Joshua, the popular Nigerian charismatic preacher and televangelist, who has died at the age of 57, left a conflicting legacy.

SA's most famous babies - the "Tembisa 10" - are in an undisclosed hospital in Pretoria "fighting for their lives".

Animal rights organisation Peta has called for an immediate investigation into what is says was a "botched" buffalo hunt at an Eastern Cape safari estate.

Power utility Eskom announced that load-shedding would be increased from stage 2 to stage 3 for most of Thursday.

Gauteng accounted for more than half (58%) of all the new cases recorded in the past 24 hours, says the NICD

The ‘ghost vending’ syndicates generate income of between R150,000 and R250,000 a day from the illicit sale of electricity, say police

Washington — President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a commerce department review of security concerns posed by those apps.

Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina confirmed on Wednesday that his office had met with the family of the woman who gave birth to 10 children this week.

Aubrey Manaka has pleaded guilty to the murder of 21-year-old Capricorn TVET college student Precious Ramabulana.

The "Nafiz Modack Enterprise" faces 3,121 criminal counts — including murder, extortion, intimidation, attempted murder and cellphone pinging.

Chants of "Hands off Jeremy Vearey now!" were heard outside parliament on Wednesday as church leaders, community workers and activists marched in support of Maj-Gen Jeremy Vearey.

Prof Linda-Gail Bekker, co-lead investigator on the Sisonke trial, has cautioned that we drop the ball on HIV and tuberculosis at our peril as we battle Covid-19.