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Planned maintenance being conducted by Rand Water is due to be completed by 2 June.

Performers Young MC, Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer Martina McBride raised concerns the event will be political.

Freya Kemp makes 39 off 13 with the bat and takes 2-15 with the ball, as England beat India by 26-runs to level the women’s T20 international series 1-1 with a game to play.

Michael Dunlop says he has noticed his support from all over the world growing over recent years as he prepares to add to his record tally of 33 wins at the Isle of Man TT.

It is fashionable for South African props to be the main attraction, and so it proved once again at the Cape Town Stadium with a player-of-the-match performance by Stormers loosehead Ntuthuko Mchunu.

People have just begun returning to check on their homes in the block that was hit early on Friday morning.

Bevan French scores on his return from a hamstring injury as Wigan Warriors earn their 22nd Challenge Cup title by thrashing Hull KR at a sweltering Wembley Stadium.

Two women were also arrested in connection with the stolen vehicle and detained in Hermanus.

Veteran actor Sello Maake kaNcube has finally spoken out about receiving an honorary doctorate from a bogus college…

Freya Kemp breathes life into England’s preparations for the T20 World Cup as they level their series against India with a 26-run victory in Bristol.

Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova says she cannot “stay silent” as she continues to heavily criticise Russian players for not denouncing the war.

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Doctors have hailed “unprecedented” trial results that show a triple-action cancer jab can eradicate entire tumours in patients.

In an international trial spanning 11 countries, the injection was offered to patients whose cancer had spread or come back and whose...

Molosankwe was killed in a hail of bullets in Lomanyaneng Village in Mahikeng last week.

Médicins Sans Frontières says that never before has an Ebola outbreak recorded so many cases so soon after its declaration.