Jan 8 (Reuters) – A US immigration agent shot and wounded a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon, authorities said on Thursday, leading local officials to call for calm given public outrage over the ICE shooting death of a Minnesota woman a day earlier.

The famous route is still regarded as the pinnacle achievement for sea swimmers in Cape Town – just don’t compare the depth of the challenge of a skins swim to that of a wetsuit attempt.

Just off St George’s Street, the main road that runs through Simon’s Town, lies an idyllic enclave that has thwarted the ambitions of developers for more than a decade. But now, despite a unified front between homeowners and the displaced Malay community – not to mention the archaeological value of the site as a former supply farm for the Dutch East India Company – a well-known...

Iran faces a nationwide internet blackout as anti-government protests over economic distress and inflation spread. Amid rising unrest, US President Donald Trump has warned against the use of force by security services.

The Kouga municipality has been rocked by devastating wildfires, leaving residents in a state of heartbreak as homes and farms are consumed within moments. Evacuations were ordered in multiple areas as the fire threatened local infrastructure.

An annual gathering at a Cape olive grove honouring those in the anti-apartheid church struggle is more than commemoration, it is an act of political recovery.

The SA Navy will join warships from China, Russia and Iran in practising maritime safety and protection operations.

Crimes committed against members of the LGBTQIA+ community, including the murder of the first openly gay imam Muhsin Hendricks (58), raise serious concerns about the persistent failure to adequately investigate and prosecute alleged hate crimes. Hendricks was murdered in February 2025, and to date, no arrests have been made, reinforcing fears that violence targeting LGBTQIA+ people continues to...

Artists selected for the sixth phase of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme have still not been paid.

Director-General for Basic Education Hubert Mathanzima Mweli responds to recent claims about the ‘political theatre’ surrounding the annual announcement of the matric pass rate, arguing that attempts to present a narrative of decline in education are ‘misleading’.

In the midst of the urban decay in Johannesburg’s inner-eastern suburbs, something remarkable is growing. A once-neglected field in Bez Valley has been transformed into a working, thoughtful and increasingly thriving urban farm known as Marais-BezValley-garden

The ease and accessibility of a variety of mountain bike trails is one of the reasons I can survive in and love Johannesburg. Here’s my A to T of trails, which hopefully will encourage you to get on your bike (or get a bike) and experience the trails for yourself.

The Nelson Mandela Bay Metro is scrambling to avert a refuse crisis after failing to advertise a key compaction truck tender on time. The metro has now moved to extend the lapsed contract for six months, despite warnings that such deviations contributed to the metro’s rising unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.

When a fire broke out at the busy Physician-on-Call section at Nelson Mandela Bay’s Livingstone Hospital, doctors and nurses discovered that neither the fire panels nor the alarms and smoke detectors were working – and the service dates of the fire extinguishers had expired.

In a chaotic turn of events, four suspects were arrested after a home invasion in Theescombe, with private security and the community potentially cracking a case linked to one of Nelson Mandela Bay’s most notorious robbery gangs.

If a quick check of your daily average screen time leaves you slightly concerned, know that you are among a very large group of people who spend too much time on their devices. And South Africans are doing it more than virtually anyone else.

A routine quality check in the Netherlands has spiralled into a global Nestlé product recall. That means South African parents need to return tins of contaminated NAN infant formula.

The Judicial Service Commission has recommended the initiation of removal proceedings against Judge Mushtak Parker following a finding of gross misconduct.

Russia on Thursday slammed a plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine as “dangerous” and dubbed Kyiv and its allies an “axis of war”, dousing hopes the plan could be a step towards ending the almost four-year-war.

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