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Staff and customers in shock as three women carry body bag into Capitec branch as ‘proof of death’

A shooting incident occurred at the home of Robert Mugabe’s son in Johannesburg’s Hyde Park, where a 23-year-old gardener was injured. Local residents reported hearing gunshots previously, and the police are investigating the event as an attempted murder, with significant focus on identifying the firearm and the shooter.

The actor, who also starred in HBO’s Euphoria, battled the most common form of motor neurone disease.

SANDF is the third largest army in Africa after the Egyptian and Algerian armies

A gardener was shot earlier in Hyde Park, north of Johannesburg and is in critical condition

Preliminary investigations indicate that the bus lost control along a curvy mountain pass.

The two men have been charged with attempted murder.

Venezuela’s acting president has signed into law an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of politicians, activists, lawyers and many others. The approval marks a stark turn for the nation.

Osaka’s mayor says he is ‘lost for words’ and that he has ‘nothing but appreciation’ for the gesture.

Recent deadly incidents in California and Europe are putting avalanches – and how to avoid them – in the spotlight.

NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Max Colchester about the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the new details that have emerged in the Epstein files.

The corridor is strategically significant given that Zambia, Angola and the DRC are home to some of the world’s most significant deposits of critical minerals

The gunmen launched simultaneous assaults on multiple communities in a remote border district, officials say.

Bellarmine Mugabe is in custody after he allegedly shot a security guard at a property in Johannesburg.

Officers in Kano search cafes and restaurants every year during Ramadan looking for Muslims breaking the fast.

Washington will set a 19% tariff on most Indonesian goods in exchange for lower trade barriers for US goods

The agency released a critical report that puts the Starliner incident at same mistake level assigned to the fatal Columbia and Challenger shuttle disasters.

The entertainment giant’s revenue surged last year as 159 million fans attended its concerts.

His associate said the music industry was “related to P”, a way Epstein apparently often referred to women.

Senior Democratic Alliance officials are backing Western Cape agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer to replace the party leader as agriculture minister after its April federal congress

Ramaphosa insists that success within the GNU must be owned collectively rather than politicised.

The president has pushed back against MPs claims’ that the successes outlined in his State of the Nation address should be credited to coalition partners

BBC Scotland looks at the fallout from Kasper Schmeichel’s performance in Celtic’ Stuttgart defeat.

Ukraine’s Winter Paralympics team will boycott the event’s opening ceremony next month after Russian and Belarusian athletes were invited to compete under their national flags.

USA come from behind to beat Canada 2-1 in overtime of the women’s ice hockey final at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina.

Watch the key turning points and how Great Britain’s curlers “raised their game” during their 8-5 over Switzerland in the men’s semi-final.

Political correspondent Alexandra Topping and special educational needs student Jake with his mum, Laura, explore the government’s controversial plans for reform

Next week, the government is expected to announce its education white paper. It is a moment, as political correspondent Alexandra Topping explains, of high political peril.

Part of the proposals will be reforms to special educational...

Children to get individual support directly from school instead of via council in attempt to curb spiralling costs

Children in England with special needs will receive individual support and therapy directly from their schools as part of the government’s overhaul of England’s special education provision.

Under the plans, mainstream schools will be given commissioning budgets to spend on...

Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has backed plans to build an N2 wall after another highway incident, this time outside Khayelitsha…

Notorious TikToker Maryke Erasmus – who Gayton McKenzie once threatened to sue for defamation – share her latest theory on Joslin Smith.

Minnie Dlamini and her friends immersed themselves in all things Galentine’s as they celebrated their friendship in Cape Town.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been under fire due to his links to Jeffrey Epstein.

Women contribute to building homes and sustaining families, yet when death occurs, these contributions are conveniently erased.

Employees and software using AI behind the scenes expose organisations to breaches, phishing, malware, and compliance failures.

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Documents say customs officers in the US Virgin Islands had friendly relationships with Epstein years after his 2008 conviction, showing how the infamous sex offender tried to cultivate allies.

Motorists in South Africa are spending considerably less on petrol than they were a few months ago.

SANRAL will raise fees across all its toll plazas in South Africa next month.

The cheapest Toyota Corolla Cross costs more than R400,000 in South Africa.

The household cat could hold the key to understanding certain types of cancer, such as breast cancer.