The rand was little changed in early trade on Friday as investors awaited clarity on a disputed national budget which has roiled domestic markets in recent weeks.

Threatened by armed conflict, volcanic activity and rampant deforestation, Africa's oldest national park is turning to a new product to raise its profile and boost conservation efforts: chocolate gorillas.

A 35-year-old scholar transporter was arrested on Thursday afternoon in Mafefe village, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo's Capricorn district, for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl.

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A 15-year-old boy killed a fellow pupil and wounded three others in a stabbing attack at a high school in the western French city of Nantes on Thursday before he was overpowered by teachers, police said.

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Bonobos share a syntactic capacity with humans, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Zurich.

Heavy rain led to flooded roads across Durban on Friday morning.

Alphabet's Waymo self-driving taxis may be available for people to own in the future, CEO Sundar Pichai said on Thursday as electric vehicle maker Tesla gears up to roll out robotaxis in the US this year.

The City of Tshwane has announced the Giant Stadium in Soshanguve will be renamed Amos Chando Mkhari Stadium in honour of the Tshwane soccer player.

China warned a G20 meeting that world economic growth was “insufficient” as tariff and trade wars exacerbated economic and financial instability and sapped growth momentum, its finance ministry and central bank said.

Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been admitted to hospital with a high fever after returning from a two-day visit to Cambodia, a government official said on Friday.

At four-and-a-half years old, Christopher Els heard the words no child or parent should ever hear: "Your son has acute lymphoblastic leukemia."

The US justice department is terminating $811m in grants, including some impacting victim service programmes ranging from trauma centres and sign language interpretation for domestic violence victims to police training, according to internal document...

Eskom says generation capacity is being boosted.

Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones, killing at least 12 people, in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year and drawing a rare rebuke from US President Donald Trump on Thursday, who told Vladimir Putin: “Vladimir, stop.”

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Teffo quit her job and left her family in pursuit of her dream

A situation where 60.2% of young people are unemployed and a high rate of poverty is a recipe for an uprising, Thulani Dlomo says

If the country loses all of its NIH funding, the country could lose 70% of its medical research capacity, Bhekisisa’s data team’s sums reveal

Gonondo Sheila Fihliwe Khama was announced as the chairperson when health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi appointed members of the Interim Traditional Health Practitioners Council of SA for the remainder of the 2023–26 term.

Cybercrime now ranks as the No 1 risk in South Africa, overtaking long-standing issues including load-shedding and political instability.

The cross-examination of Johannesburg advocate Ntu Hamilton Moloto, the key state witness in the Usindiso fire trial, continued in the Johannesburg high court on Thursday.

A serial rapist who preyed on young girls during a 13-year period was on Thursday sentenced to four life terms in the Mbombela high court on Thursday.

The Institute for Economic Justice has welcomed the decision to reverse the VAT hike, which it says is a regressive tax that would have disproportionately harmed the poor, low-income workers and the struggling middle class.

The Skukuza regional court on Thursday sentenced Mozambican Nelson Sandile Sambo to an effective 20 year jail term for poaching-related offences.

Four suspects linked to a spate of about 20 murders and robberies in crime-ridden Amaoti, north of Durban abandoned bail in the Ntuzuma magistrate’s court on Thursday.

The City of Cape Town on Thursday moved to assure irate ratepayers - fuming over steep new proposed property rates and infrastructure charges - their money would be spent on much needed services for all residents.

Zuma piggybacks on an application brought by Thales for a discharge of the charges based on the fact that two directors allegedly involved in the dodgy deals with Zuma had died