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The DA says it will investigate allegations that its Western Cape leader Bonginkosi Madikizela falsified qualifications, following a report that he does not have the BCom degree he claimed to have.

A user of video chat site Omegle says he was paired with a video bot of himself performing sexual acts.

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.

COMMENT: The AU has laid out a clear path for the continent to produce its own vaccines

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.

Tokyo stocks closed lower on Wednesday as a higher yen and worries over a rise in virus infections in Japan weighed on the market.

The airport says some travellers are facing waits of up to six hours.

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

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

The Bulls on Wednesday confirmed the signing of loose forward Jacques du Plessis from French club Montpellier.

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.

Our sceptical food editor puts the new Piece o’Cake Cheesecake Mix to the taste test and does the sums to find out which is more economical: readymade or homemade.

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 Ltd. 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.

The spectrum policy is impaired by fundamental failures, which will rob millions of South Africans of crucial digital services, says the Free Market Foundation.

In a record quarter for VC funding, California still takes the cake—further evidence that reports of the region’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

This year’s Oscar-nominated animated films have a uniformly safe, childish approach to death. But The Willoughbys—not nominated—will mess you up.

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.

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.

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.