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Hit musician Giboh Pearson survived the devastating floods in southern Malawi by climbing a mango tree....

Three Nigerian troops were killed and 11 other people, including seven civilians, were injured by a highway bomb in north-east Nigeria near the border with Cameroon, where jihadists are active, military and militia sources told AFP on Friday....

The World Health Organisation has commended Burundi's strong disease surveillance mechanism for the swift detection of an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2, the first in the country in over 30 years....

A subset of lower-income customers face a smaller increase...

JSE all share index is down more than 5% this week...

Putin is only the third serving president to have been issued an ICC arrest warrant, after Omar al-Bashir and Muammar Gaddafi...

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has joined the City of Cape Town's application for an urgent interdict against violence and damage to property during the EFF's shutdown...

Toyota is closing its Prospecton plant south of Durban on Monday - which only fully reopened in August after billions of rands in flood damage - due to the EFF's national shutdown....

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the EFF has not served the police with a notice to protest ahead of the party's planned national "shutdown" on Monday, which may lead to possible confrontation....

A school has been shut down in one of Zimbabwe's oldest towns due to environmental degradation by artisanal and illegal miners who continue to dig tunnels under roads, schools, and buildings in the central business district....

A photo newly leaked to GroundUp confirms that Dr Nandipha Magudumana accompanied a man resembling 'Facebook rapist' Thabo Bester to a Sandton shop in June last year, almost two months after a prison fire that was announced to have killed Bester....

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One vaccine was produced by France's Ceva Animal Health, the other by Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim...

Moscow has repeatedly denied its forces have committed atrocities during its one-year invasion...

South Africans need to reflect on whether the problem of corruption is confined to the ANC or has infiltrated society as a whole...

In a discussion with Reserve Bank head Lesetja Kganyago, economic historian Adam Tooze challenged the esteemed central banker's 'conservatism9;...

The utility's reasoning in papers before court showed, if true, that the timeframes in its Generation Recovery Plan cannot be met, applicants in a constitutional challenge say...

But community conservation leaders in Southern Africa say the bill undermines rural livelihoods and jeopardies wildlife conservation...

The utility says the energy availability at six power stations has picked up...

The Proteas women's team have had to contend with yet another retirement after stalwart Trisha Chetty called it a day....

Accountability Now's advocate Paul Hoffman SC is continuing with his crusade for the establishment of a Chapter 9 institution tasked with investigating and prosecuting serious corruption....

ActionSA has terminated two councillors' membership in Tshwane after they allegedly supported candidates backed by the EFF and ANC in the municipality's elections for speaker and mayor....

The concessionaires complain that their permits/licenses issued at different times between 1995 and 2014 were unceremoniously brought to an end and a new investor was brought in....

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa has confirmed an increase of 18.65% for Eskom's standard tariff customers and 18.49% for municipalities....

SVB was the biggest bank to fail in more than a decade, with about $209bn in total assets as of the end of 2022, the FDIC said...

The EFF is opposing the application...

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The International Committee of the Red Cross is debating deep cuts to its budget for frontline emergencies....

A North West farmer has lost 21 cows after they were killed by lightning. Eleven of the cows were pregnant....

Allegations of payments for services not rendered and irregular appointments of companies tipped off the initial corruption investigations into Zandile Gumede and her co-accused....

City of Cape Town law enforcement officers have removed hundreds of tyres placed in strategic areas across the city, allegedly ahead of the EFF's planned nationwide shutdown....

A 20-year-old Grade 9 pupil at a Free State school has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a 17-year-old Grade 8 schoolmate....

A bid to hold three ex-partners of fallen PR giant Bell Pottinger liable for its disastrous campaign for the Gupta family in SA has collapsed....

The life of award-winning rapper Costa Titch, who was laid to rest earlier in the week, will be celebrated at two memorial services....

The Airports Company South Africa says it has "contingency plans in place to mitigate any disruptions" during the EFF's shutdown protest on Monday....

Police Minister Bheki Cele has asked his officers to show bravery when dealing with those who break the law during next week's planned shutdown....

St. Louis City SC sporting director Lutz Pfannenstiel has responded to comments made by Bafana boss Hugo Broos surrounding the unavailability of Njabulo Blom for his country....

Engineers at the eThekwini Municipality have raised the alarm about the poor state of the city's sewer infrastructure, arguing should maintenance not be done urgently, the system faces a 'high risk' of collapsing completely....

The City of Tshwane has approached the Hawks to probe its former mayor, Murunwa Makwarela, for fraud, after it was revealed that he had produced a fake insolvency rehabilitation certificate....

France, like most of Europe, is in the grip of a winter drought that is prompting growing concerns over water security across the continent....

The gentle and uber-cute French bulldog has claimed the title of most popular dog in the United States, ending the Labrador retriever's 31-year reign as king of the purebreds in the American Kennel Club's 2022 rankings....

Popular products such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word will begin using OpenAI's new GPT-4 platform...

New Zealand said on Friday it would ban TikTok on devices with access to the country's parliamentary network due to cybersecurity concerns....

Australian police are investigating a former British military pilot suspected of involvement in the training of Chinese People's Liberation Army pilots at a flying school in South Africa, a Sydney court was told on Friday....

The Johannesburg Magistrate's Court has heard how six men, including two Ethiopians, allegedly kidnapped a businessman and demanded a R3 million ransom....

Proteas ODI skipper Temba Bavuma said moving on from a successful Test series to ODI cricket isn't the easiest of transitions as the Proteas face the West Indies on Saturday after Thursday's washout....

Inspired by a whale shark's wide mouth, Richard Hardiman's company Ran Marine created the WasteShark, an autonomous machine that scoops up pollution out of water on the surface level...