Emma chose the name change because Emily Stone – her real name – was taken by another actor.

News24 celebrated the birthday of Dorah Jones, who defied the odds after surviving a devastating fire in Johannesburg. Several donations were made to Children of Fire, an organisation that empowers young burns survivors.

All nine provinces adopted the Climate Change Bill without amendments on Thursday; all that remains is for the president to sign it into law.

It was an emotional and sombre moment for the community of Diphini Village in East London on Friday morning as they buried little Unecebo Mboteni, three, who drowned in a pit toilet last week.

Emma Hayes says Chelsea have to be “perfect” to be able to progress from their Women’s Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

The Litterboom Project operates on eight rivers in KwaZulu-Natal and two in Cape Town. It removes roughly 1.5 tonnes of waste per clean-up.

Eskom has not ruled out load shedding for winter, but said its base case would be limited to Stage 2.

Elliott Investment Management has built a roughly $1 billion (roughly R19 billion) stake in Anglo American, people with knowledge of the matter said, adding to the pressure on the UK-listed miner after it rejected a takeover approach from Australia’s BHP Group.

Travellers using the Cape Town International Airport may experience a disruption in e-hailing services and long waiting times due to an impending strike by e-hailing operators this weekend, says Airports Company South Africa.

The president of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, said the government was not using load shedding as a strategy to influence voter behaviour in the forthcoming elections.

South Africa’s energy crisis formed a golden thread through several concerns international human rights watchdog Amnesty International raised about the country in its latest report on the global state of human rights.

Eskom cancelled its controversial tender to appoint a service provider to build a new corporate identity for the Eskom group of companies in March. This included designing a new logo for the utility.

Gauteng health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko has welcomed the hefty jail term imposed on a member of a gang that hijacked, kidnapped, assaulted and robbed a Gauteng Emergency Medical Services crew in Pretoria last year.

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Seanego Attorneys in Midrand has been appointed to probe the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two pupils from Daveyton Skills School in Benoni on April 15 during a discipline camp in Centurion.

“We are on our own and that place is unsafe,” says one of the survivors of the fire at Usindiso building in Marshalltown, Joburg, who has been relocated with others to a shelter in Denver.

Copper hit $10,000 a ton for the first time in two years as speculation builds that the world’s mines will struggle to meet a coming wave of demand from green industries.

South African stocks touched their highest levels since January, eurobonds rose and the rand surged by the most this year after publication of an opinion poll was seen boosting the odds of a market-friendly coalition emerging from national elections next month.