The leader of an apostolic sect in Zimbabwe was charged with exploiting minors on Thursday after police said hundreds of children were abused at his church's farm.
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Extremely high fire danger conditions are expected in Northern Cape, Free State and Eastern Cape, with the South African Weather Service issuing Yellow Level 1 for severe thunderstorms resulting in heavy downpours in North West and Limpopo.
New legislation that will effectively end Eskom's monopoly on the production of electricity and establish a competitive electricity supply market was passed by the National Assembly on Thursday.
The top five municipal bill defaulting communities in the City of Tshwane, which owe hundreds of millions of rands, include affluent suburbs such as Waterkloof and Silverlakes.
About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink a herbal potion to prove they were not practising witchcraft, police and local officials said on Thursday.
Johannesburg Water has sent teams to the Randburg Water System to flush out a network of airlocks, which have resulted in poor water pressure in some of the suburbs.
A massive internet outage hit South Africa on Thursday, with internet users throughout the country reporting slow speeds or unresponsive pages.
Retail-focused landlord Resilient said its rollout of its own energy supply as well as less load shedding helped support it during its year to end-December, when it regardless took a blow from higher interest rates.
The Sharks rebuild continues as the coastal franchise has signed two more Springboks, Trevor Nyakane and Andre Esterhuizen.
Shipping companies using the Cape route for east-west trade have largely avoided having to restock and refuel at South Africa’s maritime hubs due to their inability to provide services.
Memorabilia of late president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Laurent-Désiré Kabila, computers, and phones belonging to a foundation dedicated to his legacy have been confiscated in a raid by the state in Kinshasa.
One of the five accused in the murder of rapper Kiernan "AKA" Forbes and his friend, businessman Tebello "Tibz" Motsoane, says he wants to be released on bail so that he can continue to help his wife pay off a loan she had taken for the completion of their home.
African Rainbow Capital Investments, the empowered investment company backed by Patrice Motsepe, said it got a boost from its two largest investees, Rain and TymeBank. It's hopeful their imminent profitability will help it tackle the discount at which its shares trade.
More than 1.7 million tourists visited Table Mountain National Park in December and January. Most of them visited Cape Point, Boulders Beach and the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway.
Convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester appears to have confirmed that he and Dr Nandipha Magudumana have broken up – by making cryptic references to "an accused person, namely my former girlfriend" in an urgent application against Showmax.
Professor Beter Peale has told the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg that he has always been in an excellent financial position, even after losing just over R1.5 million in what was described as the country's biggest Ponzi scheme.
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled that confession statements by two of the five men accused of murdering former Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa were made freely and voluntarily, and without coercion.
Some Johannesburg residents still have no water, 12 days after the first of several power outages at Rand Water's Eikenhof pump station.
Orlando Pirates have been the face of inconsistency this season, going from dazzling to disastrous in a transformation so fast and dramatic that even the best make-up artists would struggle to emulate it.
The IFP stunned the ANC by snatching three Newcastle wards, while the ruling party won only one of the four by-elections held in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.
While lower coal prices helped prompt a profit fall for Exxaro Resource in 2023, the coal miner said it had seen increased revenue and earnings contribution from its renewable energy business, at an impressive margin.
The ANC's Mdumiseni Ntuli responds to Renée Bonorchis, writing her analysis oversimplifies complex socioeconomic dynamics, ignores positive developments, and offers an imbalanced portrayal of a government grappling with multifaceted problems within a troubled global context.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his party may be in the steepest descent, but he remains the single most popular figure on the political landscape, writes Tony Leon.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has defended the nomination of provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo's wife, Nombuso Mtolo, to number four on the party's province-to-national list.
