South Africa is getting closer to publishing long-awaited changes to its financial rules and has earmarked over-the-counter derivatives for greater scrutiny, alongside unlisted financial market activity.
An oil spill from a shipwreck off the West Coast could endanger seabird colonies and other marine life, prompting the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds to prepare a rescue team.
A subcommittee has recommended that the energy regulator reject Eskom's bid to reserve grid space for public power projects, pointing to the need for a better way to ensure fair grid access, say industry players.
At around 21:15 on Monday, South African eyes will be on the Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis, where two of their swimming stars, Tatjana Smith and Pieter Coetzé, will fight for medals in their respective finals.
The mother of pop singer Grimes has claimed that Elon Musk is "withholding" the couple's children from seeing their ailing great-grandmother.
KwaZulu-Natal police have launched a manhunt for a group of armed robbers who shot and injured a police officer and a member of the public during an armed robbery at a jewellery store in Phoenix Plaza.
Mozambique on Monday "substantially" won its R57 billion lawsuit at London's High Court against Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest for allegedly paying bribes in relation to the decade-old "tuna bond" scandal.
PepsiCo South Africa is to sell its popular Marmite and Bovril brands, along with the business unit that produces them, to a privately owned Canadian-based company called Lallemand.
The health department has asked drugmakers to submit prices, and how much they can make, of the two-monthly anti-HIV jab, CAB-LA - 18 days after it accepted a donation of 231 000 doses from the US government.
Former president Jacob Zuma's MK Party has reacted with "shock" to his expulsion from the ANC over the weekend.
A fundamental part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission model was scrapped for Northern Ireland, but the concept could still appeal in the Middle East, writes Phillip de Wet.
Israel cannot continue on its current trajectory. It has to end, and a new modern democratic state must replace it, where all peoples, Arabs and Jews, live as equals before the law, writes Oscar van Heerden.
Nicolas Maduro was declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election Sunday but the opposition and key regional neighbours immediately rejected the official results.
Two gunmen shot a primary school teacher dead in full view of pupils and her colleagues at Phikiswayo Primary School in Ntuzuma, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
Puleng Phoofolo credits divine intervention for her miraculous survival in the devastating accident that resulted in the deaths of Malome Vector and two others.
The oil and gas giant will exit its major gas because it is "too challenging" to develop and monetise the finds for the country.
Eastern Cape police have launched a manhunt after a cash-in-transit (CIT) robbery left an unconfirmed number of guards injured on the N6 route in Macleantown, East London, on Monday morning.
Proteas Test captain Temba Bavuma has viewed the upcoming two-Test series against the West Indies as an opportunity for young players to stake their claim to be part of the team’s future plans.
Israeli troops backed by air strikes battled groups of Palestinian fighters around Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, as they continued a week-long operation they said was meant to clear Islamist Hamas militants.
Snow in high-lying areas of the Western and Northern Cape is likely on Monday, following yet another cold front.
Unesco has added to its World Heritage a list of South Africa's human rights and liberation struggle sites.
A police officer has allegedly killed two colleagues and wounded another former officer before turning his service pistol on himself.
Some parents do not appear too concerned about sending their children to study at universities in the UK, despite the astronomical cost, if enrolment figures are anything to go by.
As Paris hosts the 2024 Olympics, undocumented Chinese sex worker Hua says increased police patrols are threatening her livelihood.
The City of Joburg's plea to Stats SA to "correct" census figures has failed.
