News South Africa

A cash-in-transit van has been bombed, a security guard has been killed and three people have been injured in a robbery in Gugulethu, Cape Town.

The Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police chief and the officer who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a 20-year old Black man who struggled with police after a traffic stop, have both tendered their resignations.

The urn, made between 900 and 1600 AD, has been housed at Albion College, Michigan, since 1969.

La Soufriere, on the island of St Vincent, has been erupting for the past five days.

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) seized the ship as officials in the country seek compensation for damage done to the canal.

The blaze in Niamey engulfed straw classrooms and those in the nursery could not escape.

Restrictions to battle the pandemic offer ideal cover for authoritarian regimes to undermine and clamp down on opposition parties

Former Leicester City forward Ahmed Musa completes a short-term deal to play for Nigerian league side Kano Pillars.

South Africa’s Busiswa Gqulu is using her songs and poetry to overcome gender barriers in the music industry.

Employers and trade unions in the road passenger sector reached a wage increase agreement for the coming year.

Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has announced the extension of South Africa’s national state of disaster by a further month.

Sasol plans to develop the use of green hydrogen by fuel cell vehicles on a major South African freight route as the company examines ways to lower its own emissions.

A day after it suspended its rollout.

Ace Magashule tells provinces to add those accused, but not charged, to step-aside list

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has welcomed today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal confirming that former President Jacob Zuma must pay back the money spent by the State on his personal legal costs.

Under the new Political Party Funding Act, all political parties taking part in elections must now declare their donations above R100 000.

The court said the ‘funding tap’ for Zuma’s private legal matters had been turned on unlawfully

Cheetahs prop Charles Marais has called time on his professional rugby career.

It was all quiet at the press conference for Hubert Hurkacz when he wasn’t asked a single question after his 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Thomas Fabbiano at the Monte Carlo Masters.

SAFA has received up to 200 CVs for the vacant Bafana Bafana head coach role, said technical committee chairperson Jack Maluleke.

A group of Ndebele language and cultural organisations are marching to the SABC and department of communications offices today against the relocation of Ikwekwezi FM from Pretoria to Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Sasol and project partner Toyota will install hydrogen refuelling infrastructure along the N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban, CEO Fleetwood Grobler said in a statement on Wednesday.

VPN provider Surfshark has analysed the recently discovered Facebook data leak containing the data of 533 million users, and found that over 14 million of the leaked profiles were South African.

The venture capital firm says with the ongoing cyber threats to businesses, a safer and more secure e-mail ecosystem has been forged with the security start-up.

People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly.

It felt like the itch was coming from somehow under her skin. The cause ended up being even deeper.

Occupations in the industry are increasingly in demand because of an aging population and longer life spans.

Through open-records laws, Times reporters have acquired data on coronavirus cases that revealed racial inequalities, pinpointed hot spots and uncovered other critical facts.

Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.

The BBC speaks to the woman who, as a child, witnessed Yuri Gagarin’s return to Earth 60 years ago.

She told the BBC she was concerned about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on attendance at COP26.