Former Democratic Republic of Congo president Joseph Kabila was sentenced to death in absentia on Tuesday by a military court that convicted him of war crimes, treason, and crimes against humanity.

After nine days of testimony at the Madlanga Commission into police corruption, it is becoming increasingly clear that sidelined Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has some difficult questions to answer.

Former Bitou Municipality city manager Lonwabo Ngoqo was appointed as the Nelson Mandela Bay metro’s 18th acting city manager on Tuesday.

The recent debut of an AI-generated "actress" dubbed Tilly Norwood, and its producer's boasts of interest from studio executives, sparked a backlash on Tuesday from the SAG-AFTRA actors union, ...

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The U.S. lurched toward a government shutdown on Tuesday as a vote to extend funding past a midnight deadline failed in the U.S. Senate and President Donald Trump threatened to extend his purge of the ...

The Nelson Mandela Bay call centre has been out of service for a month, and councillors’ cellphones have been cut off amid myriad contract dramas and payment snags.

Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti and British MP Jeremy Corbyn have condemned US President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza, which would see a transitional international authority ...

Colleagues and friends of South Africa’s Ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa, are in mourning after the former Cabinet minister died at 58. French authorities are investigating, according to local ...

In Brixton, Mayfair and Vrededorp, water cuts are so routine they barely register. Streetlights lie in scrapyards, while water from tankers never reaches the elderly. Residents pay top rates but get ...

Eskom is entering a new era with new power providers on the scene and no further prospects of bailouts from the cash-strapped Treasury.

Top policeman Dumisani Khumalo has detailed to the Madlanga Commission how the Big Five drug trafficking cartel allegedly infiltrated political and law enforcement circles, as well as private security ...