It is alleged the dog escaped from its enclosure and jumped over the fence into the neighbour's premises where the young boy was playing alone. It bit him severely on the neck and chest.

British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he will have to raise taxes in next week's budget plan in order to fix the public finances and soften a potentially long recession, a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday.

Democrats will hold onto control of the US Senate after Senator Catherine Cortez Masto won re-election in Nevada, Edison Research projected on Saturday, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden.

SAA on Sunday confirmed that one of its planes crashed into a stationary FlySafair aircraft at the OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg.

Two vintage military planes collided in midair on Saturday at a World War Two commemorative airshow in Dallas, federal officials said, crashing to the ground before exploding into flames.

“Those among us who do nothing to wipe out the scourge are just as guilty as the perpetrators.”

For the third consecutive year, words relating to the pandemic dominated English conversation, according to the US-based Global Language Monitor.

Britain and France are set to agree a deal, possibly as soon as Monday, to ramp up joint efforts to stop illegal migrants from making perilous crossings of the English Channel, a British newspaper reported on Saturday.

Communities across Africa are among the most vulnerable when it comes to the climate crisis, but those migrating are often the ones who are climate literate, according to a study published in the science journal Climatic Change..

China’s top health officials said a sweeping overhaul to its Covid Zero playbook was a refinement of rules and not a relaxation of controls, dismissing interpretations that the changes were a step toward living with the virus.

The Hawks have swooped on a "speeding" Sandton, Johannesburg, motorist, arresting him for alleged possession of drugs worth R700,000.

KwaZulu-Natal residents have shared money stolen from a post office after spotting the alleged thief hiding it in a bush.

Global warming could slash Africa’s economic growth by two thirds by the end of the century unless significant investment is made in climate adaptation, a new study shows.

AU chair and Senegal president Macky Sall plans to attend an upcoming G20 summit in Bali, two government officials said on Friday as Africa looks to hold wealthier nations to account for their climate pledges.

Two people have been killed in a collision between a double-cab bakkie and an SUV on the N1 North near Grasmere Plaza in Johannesburg.

Interest rate rise, high food and transport prices result in revenue decline

Jubilant residents welcomed Ukrainian troops arriving on Friday in the centre of the strategic city of Kherson after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion began in February.

Nine people, including four children, have died in a head-on collision in Limpopo.

A clerk at the high court in Gqeberha is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraud for duping people into paying her to expedite their cases.

The Unemployment Insurance Fund is worried about the safety of its employees after one was threatened with death while auditing a company that benefited from the Covid-19 Temporary Employer-Employee Relief Scheme.

Paramedics had to use the jaws of life to free the driver of an SUV who was involved in an accident with a delivery vehicle in Mbombela on Saturday.

Civil society organisations and students marched outside the Suncoast Casino in Durban on Friday calling for the protection of beaches.

The high court in Thohoyandou on Friday sentenced Given Maceke, 39, to 11 life terms after he was convicted of 11 counts of rape and eight counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances.

A woman who killed her grandmother in December 2019 and used her bank and Sassa cards for personal gain was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday.

Information technology company EOH said on Friday it has reached an agreement with the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the department of water & sanitation (DWS) to pay back R177m it irregularly received from its dealings with the department.

Deputy president David Mabuza has announced the military veterans pension fund has been approved and payments will be made as soon as December.

Elon Musk's Twitter Inc on Friday brought back the "official" badge to some accounts, just days after doing away with it, while several users reported the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared.

The product batch of XPOP Energy Cola Fizz lollipops which allegedly led to suspected food poisoning at a Verulam school was sent to an independent laboratory for chemical and microbiological testing on Friday.rnoon.

The wife of a businessman hijacked and kidnapped in Centurion last Thursday evening a few minutes away from his home says family members are devastated.

The commission of inquiry into alleged racism at Stellenbosch University relied heavily on the views of management and failed to reflect the "lived experience" of the affected community.