French emergency services rescued 47 migrants from an attempt to cross the English Channel that left five people dead, including a 7-year-old girl, local official Jacques Billant told reporters.

The City of Tshwane has confirmed the death of former mayor Murunwa Makwarela.In a short video, speaker Mncedi Ndzwanana, said Makwarela died on Tuesday morning.

The investigator in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Sgt Batho Mogola, will continue giving testimony at the Pretoria high court on Tuesday.

The mother of comedian andDJ Peter “Mashata” Mabuse has told how her slain son always informed her about his gigs but, strangely, he did not mention the event at EpoziniLifestyle at the weekend.

Unionist Zwelinzima Vavi says he feels cheated after he learnt that the honorary doctorate he cherished for six years was conferred by an unregistered institution.

The ANC will appeal the Durban high court’s rejection of its bid to stop former president Jacob Zuma’s new party from using the Umkhonto we Sizwe name and logo.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the extensions of the employment of the South African National Defence Force in the Democratic Republic of Congo and for the maritime security strategy along the coast of the Indian Ocean.

Three people were killed and one person was injured in a light aircraft crash outside Emalahleni on Sunday.

PAC stalwart Motsoko Pheko has been described as invaluable contributor to human development, one who had unwavering commitment to the principles of freedom and human dignity and a father figure.

The ANC in Mpumalanga has dumped the traditional way of campaigning ahead of the general elections after  giving free haircuts and hairstyles to woo voters at the weekend.

Details of how slain popular DJ and comedian Peter “Mashata” Mabuse spent his last moments have emerged with a pub manager saying he had a good set and a friend telling police that he ran some errands on Saturday.

The family of popular DJ and comedian Peter “Mashata” Mabuse has asked for space as they mourn his death.

Minister of higher education Blade Nzimande says Trinity International Bible University which conferred an honorary doctorate to actor Sello Maake kaNcube is not registered and therefore has no authority to offer any qualifications.

At least two people are dead and six others injured in a shooting at a block party in Memphis, Tennessee, on Saturday, according to police.

Israel launched a strike on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest of the tit-for-tat exchanges between the regional arch foes whose long-running shadow war has broken into the open.

When Mariana Ubisi went into labour in her one-room home in rural South Africa, millions of black citizens were queuing to vote in the election that would bring Nelson Mandela to power.

A metro cop and his co-accused allegedly used their companies to siphon some of the R16,5m allegedly stolen from auditing firm KPMG and also tried to recruit others into the scheme.

A defence lawyer in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial maintains that his client was not close to some of his co-accused despite analyst reports and confessions linked and disclosed the role played by all of the accused in the murder.

“Andikwazi nokuthetha (I can’t even speak).”These are the words of a grieving mother who minutes after returning from working night shift on Tuesday, discovered that her 14-year-old daughter had been murdered and her body dumped near a butchery, some  150m away from their home in crime-ridden Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg.

Tshwane municipality says it’s shocked that one of its cop has appeared in court on KPMG money-laundering charges.

The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has called on parliament not to adopt a white paper overhauling the country’s immigration laws.