An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
Melinda French Gates is leaving the charitable foundation she co-founded with former spouse Bill Gates more than 20 years ago and will get $12.5 billion for her own work to uplift women and families.
An inquest into the death of renowned anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Chief Albert Luthuli will be reopened.
"He said to me, 'This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women are going to hate me.'"
Zimbabwe will allow mobile money agents, once blamed for fueling the collapse of its now defunct Zimbabwean dollar, to operate again to boost the use of its new gold-backed currency.
Construction, infrastructure and materials group Raubex lifted almost 12% on Monday when it reported that a strong and growing order book has put it in a position to up its shareholder payout by more than a fifth.
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On 10 May, the Electoral Court in Bloemfontein ordered a number of political parties to pay administrative fines of either R10 000 or R40 000 for failing to provide audited financial statements to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in terms of the Political Parties Funding Act.
This weekend's extreme solar storm brought a rare aurora sighting to South Africa for the first time since 1989 - but also may have been the reason for an internet outage that hit SA and several east African countries on Sunday.
The Department of Health on Monday said a 35-year-old man, living in Gauteng, tested positive for the infectious disease on 9 May 2024.
Sharks coach John Plumtree was effusive in his praise of fullback Aphelele Fassi despite their narrow United Rugby Championship loss to Benetton on Saturday as he plans to ship most of his players to the UK for next week's Challenge Cup final.
The 57-year-old principal of Nelson Ngubeni Primary School in Mpumalanga was stabbed to death during a house robbery in Vosman on 8 May.
Service providers contracted to repair community halls damaged by the April 2022 floods in eThekwini invoiced the City before work was completed and even overbilled the municipality.
Telkom is investigating the cause of a massive service interruption affecting the company’s internet and phone call services.
The South African Weather Service has forecast cloudy conditions with cool to warm temperatures, but isolated rain and thunderstorms are expected in some provinces.
Numsa has announced its workers will receive a 7% wage increase for the 2024/25 financial year after reaching an agreement with employer association, Seifsa.
SA probably needs 100 000 new affordable residential units a year just to keep up with annual population growth of nearly half a million, says Calgro M3.
Glencore’s Astron Energy has struck a 10-year partnership extension with FreshStop at its forecourts, to continue a relationship that began in 2009 when the retail brand was first rolled out at Caltex stations.
The proposal values Anglo at R780 billion and still requires the SA assets to be spun out.
Facing their 14th Premier League defeat of the 2023/24 season was already a bitter pill to swallow for Manchester United on Sunday against rivals Arsenal. However, videos circulating of their iconic arena, Old Trafford, in a dire leaking state of disrepair only added insult to injury.
In recent statements, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leaders Visvin Reddy and Bonginkosi Khanyile were trying to say the party would "make sure" of an elections boycott if former president Jacob Zuma was not on ballot papers.
Rio Tinto said on Monday an autonomous train had derailed at its Western Australian iron ore operations overnight and that it was investigating the incident in which no one was hurt.
Three men charged with assisting Hong Kong's foreign intelligence service in Britain appeared in a London court on Monday after a series of arrests across England.
Nine policemen attached to the public-order policing unit in Faure were injured, two of them seriously, on Monday morning when the police vehicle, a Nyala they were travelling in, overturned on the N1 near the Okavango bridge in the direction of Paarl.
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) is expected to hear a DA appeal on Friday against the SABC's decision to ban its controversial "burning flag" advert.