News South Africa

Four people have been arrested in connection with the human trafficking and kidnapping of five Bangladeshi nationals.

As MPs return to Westminster, the education secretary denies an operation to save the PM is in place.

Michael ‘Venom’ Page will fight for the Bellator welterweight title in London against champion Yaroslav Amosov.

The Free State disaster management team is assessing the damage that floods have caused in the province.

A number of ANC members are becoming clearer on their intentions to fight for the party’s deputy presidency ahead of its national conference this December.

Watch dramatic footage of the underwater volcano erupting the day before it triggered a tsunami.

US war pilot Charles McGee, who faced military segregation as he became a legendary member of the all-Black flying force known as the Tuskegee Airmen, died Sunday at age 102, officials said.

A video tweeted by Palermo police appears to show a 58-year-old woman draining syringes into tissues before sticking the needle into a patient’s arm.

The former prime minister is discussing terms which could see a dramatic end to his criminal trial.

Guinea-Bissau players were ‘lying on the floor in tears’ after their agonising 1-0 defeat by Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations.

Thousands have died in the fighting, while many more are facing starvation in Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region.

The Continent feels like an old-fashioned newspaper: catchy headlines, short stories and interviews freely available via WhatsApp.

Live coverage of Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations Group E game between Algeria and Equatorial Guinea (19:00 GMT).

The maker of Marmite and PG Tips says buying GlaxoSmithKline’s healthcare arm would be a “strong fit”.

The Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) has warned companies against introducing mandatory vaccination policies, which it says risks infringing the Constitutional rights of workers.

Most bourses elsewhere rose, with Turkey’s BIST index up for 11 straight sessions after a currency crisis-led slump.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa needs to protect the Constitution and the democratic state from anyone who wants to weaken it.

African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament Mervyn Dirks wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) in Parliament.

Alleged Parliament arsonist, Zandile Mafe, intends to plead not guilty to the charges against him relating to the fire that gutted the old and new National Assembly buildings earlier this month.

Weighing in on the possible outcomes of the ANC elective conference, Mokoena predicted court battles and an implosion of the ANC.

Prada listed some of Hollywood’s leading men for their Autumn/Winter 2022/23 collection co-designed by Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada.

A number of fashion houses at Paris menswear week will return to physical shows with Louis Vuitton showing Virgil Abloh’s final collection.

Behind any great live performance by artists, there is an exceptional and hard-working sound engineer lurking in the background making it all possible.

MSI recently unveiled its new laptops for gamers and content creators, which will be equipped with Intel 12th-gen processors.

A perfect storm of risk factors will result in global electronic component supply chain constraints lingering until 2023 and beyond, says ABI Research.

The extent of the Chinese tech stocks’ underperformance when compared to the US is astounding. By Anchor Capital’s Seleho Tsatsi.

The Department of Basic Education urges matric learners to register on its website to view their results when they become available on 21 January.

South Africa’s new-vehicle market is expected to continue its gradual recovery in 2022, but recurring issues including load shedding and global chip shortages will continue to bite.

Epidemiologist Professor Mike Tildesley says we could be seeing the Omicron wave turning around.

The Omicron coronavirus variant is moving much faster than researchers can, worsening a longstanding problem: The agency must make tough decisions with scant data.

More than half of schools had teachers absent due to Covid-19 during the first full week of term.

As the fast-spreading variant has blanketed the country, known cases and hospitalizations have surged, and officials warn of tough weeks ahead.

Fry Taylor founded the Green Salon Collective which is encouraging sustainable working practices in the hairdressing industry.

To ensure the promises of COP26 are kept, young campaigners are putting their faith in the courts.

Ernst Gotsch’s method of agriculture increases, rather than decreases, biodiversity and wildlife.

Around the US, an estimated three million oil wells have been abandoned. They’re more dangerous than we think.