Facebook Inc plans to create 10,000 jobs in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - an online world where people can use different devices to move and communicate in ...

Home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has approved the temporary extension of operating times at some of the department’s offices by two-and-a-half hours, to keep them open from 8am to 5.30pm.

Thousands of hectares of invasive pine trees are being painstakingly removed to ease Cape Town’s climate-induced water shortages.

The accused allegedly demanded money from the families of those held captive, in exchange for their release.

Rebellious Tigrayan forces accused the Ethiopian government of launching air strikes on the capital of Tigray region on Monday, and though a government official initially denied strikes, state-run media later reported the air force conducted an attac...

Africa's fabled eastern glaciers will vanish in two decades, 118-million poor people face imminent drought, floods or extreme heat, and climate change could also shave 3% off continental GDP by mid-century, the U.N. climate agency warned on Tuesday.

SA's two biggest mobile operators, MTN and Vodacom, have joined number three Telkom in a lawsuit to stop the regulator withdrawing temporary frequency spectrum assigned at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak.

The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds warned that the serious outbreak of Avian Influenza among wild seabirds in the Bergrivier Municipality on the West Coast, as well as the Walker Bay area in the Overberg of the prov...

Here's why Gauteng Premier David Makhura thinks the fourth wave is coming soon.

A US Christian aid organization on Sunday said a group of its missionaries had been kidnapped in Haiti, a further sign the Caribbean nation's gangs are growing increasingly brazen amid political and economic crises.

Former President Donald Trump on Monday sued the US congressional committee investigating the January 6 riot at the Capitol, claiming members made an illegal request for his White House records.

A Limpopo man who hanged his wife in their home in a staged suicide has been jailed for 15 years.

TimesLIVE understands that six leaders of the Black Axe organised crime group’s Cape Town chapter were arrested in a co-ordinated operation involving the Hawks and US law-enforcement authorities.

The accused wants the court to disregard the confession statement he made to police about the January 2018 abduction and killing, saying it was made under duress.

Affected areas include Robertsham, Booysens, Crown Gardens, Ridgeway, part of Mondeor, Gillview, Glenada, Ophirton, Evans Park, Ormonde, Winchester Hills, Southdale, Aeroton and Nasrec.

Richards Bay Bulk Terminal, Africa's largest coal export facility, is one of seven commercial ports that Transnet operates. Last Friday, it declared force majeure on its operations there after a second fire in a week.

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile off its east coast on Tuesday, pulling Japan's new prime minister off the campaign trail and overshadowing the opening of a major arms fair in Seoul.

Health minister Joe Phaahla said a single dose will be given because it is safest, while experts study reports of chest pains and temporary heart inflammation from mostly males in this age group who got the second jab.

"These sanctions are illegal and hurt the most vulnerable in our society," the presidency said.

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A mathematics prodigy in grade 11 has dazzled the South Africa Mathematics Olympiad (Samo) with his innovative approach to problem-solving.

One of the 11 Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) officers accused of assaulting three men with sjamboks has a previous conviction for assault, the Pretoria magistrate's court heard on Monday.

The National Treasury has ordered the disbandment of the newly established Mangaung Metro Police Services, referencing its precarious financial and service-delivery performance.

There were just 210 new Covid-19 cases and seven deaths recorded in SA in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Monday.

The high court in Johannesburg on Monday heard evidence about blood stains at the scene where Eldorado Park teenager Nathaniel Julies was shot near his home in August last year.

Three taxi drivers were arrested following a skirmish with Western Cape traffic officials on Monday morning.

The Solidarity Fund and the National Empowerment Fund have teamed up to offer R450m in financial assistance to businesses affected by the civil unrest that gripped KZN and Gauteng earlier this year.

A South African tourist was trampled to death by an elephant in front of his son at a wildlife park in Zimbabwe.