South Africa on Friday filed a new application with the International Court of Justice seeking an order that Israel must halt its offensive in Rafah, and allow in journalists and fact-finding missions.
The death toll has risen to five after a retail shop wall collapsed in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, on Friday afternoon.
The Nelspruit Commercial Crimes Court discharged controversial former state security minister Bongani Bongo and seven of his co-accused of corruption and money laundering charges on Friday.
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande's scheduled meeting with the University of Fort Hare council in East London on Friday collapsed after disputes over the agenda.
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has asked South Africans to pray for the families of those who died in the George building collapse.
The South African Weather Service has forecast morning fog with isolated rain and cloudy conditions in some provinces.
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, visited Nigeria on Friday as part of his promotion of the Invictus Games, the sporting event he founded for wounded military veterans.
The South African National Space Agency has issued a severe space weather alert, warning of key grid asset trips and possible widespread voltage control problems as a solar storm heads to Earth.
Two students studying at the Africa Skills Private College in George were on-site when a five-storey building collapsed on Monday in Victoria Street, George.
The president of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, took his campaign to Atteridgeville in Tshwane, and promised to create jobs for unemployed people, including those over 35.
Civic group MyVoteCounts has launched an urgent court bid to overturn and declare unconstitutional the Electoral Matters Amendment Act, which effectively opens the gates for political parties to receive funding without disclosing its sources.
Western Cape police spokesperson Sergeant Wesley Twigg said a 29-year-old man was shot dead on the corner of Schaap Road and Middle Avenue in Philippi, Cape Town, on Thursday.
The Labour Court has thrown out former national police commissioner Khomotso Phahlane's attempt to challenge his dismissal.
The Kirsten Kluyts murder case took another dramatic turn on Friday as the legal parties argued outside the Alexandra Magistrate's Court over a postponement.
The United States added 37 Chinese entities to a trade blacklist Thursday, including some companies accused of supporting a suspected spy balloon that flew over US soil last year.
Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.
The massive search and rescue operation at the collapsed building construction site in George has reached 95 hours, and authorities are racing against time.
The City of Tshwane is in the process of relocating hundreds of households in Gomora informal settlement in Pretoria West, which has a history of violent service delivery protests.
Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says the government does not have the capacity to take over adoption services – a view that's in contrast with the direction Gauteng's social development department is taking.
Huawei's latest high-end phone features more Chinese suppliers, including a new flash memory storage chip and an improved chip processor, a teardown analysis showed, pointing to the progress China is making towards technology self-sufficiency.
When Northern Cape residents arrived at the Batlharos Sports Ground, where President Cyril Ramaphosa held an imbizo on Thursday, they were each welcomed with a food parcel.
Islamic State-linked insurgents attacked the town of Macomia in Mozambique’s gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in what is their boldest raid in more than three years.
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has paid tribute to former Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro for her contribution to South Africa's constitutional democracy.
Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.
South Africa’s energy ministry signalled it may grant fewer oil exploration permits to Shell over the company’s plans to exit the nation’s fuel-supply business.