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The death of an unarmed African-American man shot by an off-duty white police officer under mysterious circumstances has fueled outrage in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where relatives of the victim are calling for protests Thursday....

A former policeman has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for defrauding the police's finance department of more than R1.7 million....

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Thursday for a suspension of rules preventing the use of money in Afghanistan to save lives....

The Indian team was left furious when Proteas skipper Dean Elgar survived a DRS decision on day three of the third and final Test at Newlands on Thursday....

Poor countries refused to take around 100 million donated Covid-19 vaccine doses in December alone, chiefly due to their short shelf life, the United Nations said Thursday....

Queen's son is facing a US civil lawsuit alleging sex abuse linked to Epstein...

Hosts roar back after going a goal down to hit four past Ethiopia and put one foot in the next round...

A City of Johannesburg council sitting has descended into chaos after EFF and ANC councillors launched into a sing-off....

Deputy Justice and Constitutional Development Minister John Jeffery was left disappointed by conditions during an unannounced visit to the Cape Town Master's Office....

Budget deficits limit the South African National Defence Force's ability to supply more aircraft for logistical support, attacks and evacuation The post Soldiers plead for more air support in Mozambique's battle against insurgents appeared first o...

US Capitol Police have arrested a Michigan woman who was illegally parked in front of their headquarters with a loaded shotgun and three other weapons, police said on Thursday....

Citizen Lab watchdog says Israeli NSO Group's Pegasus spyware used by operator working in country since early 2020....

Russia said on Thursday it was hitting a dead end in its efforts to persuade the West to bar Ukraine from joining NATO and roll back decades of alliance expansion in Europe, and threatened unspecified consequences in response....

Brakes put on the system the government hopes will reduce road accidents and Road Accident Fund claims...

Minerals & energy minister insists on its continued use and says phase-out must be systematic...

Investment will enable sports nutrition maker to focus on product development...

General Council of the Bar supports acting chief justice's criticism of it as an 'insult' to African judges...

Consistent December rainfall has resulted in a significant improvement in dam levels in the Chris Hani District Municipality....

Botswana's Independent Electoral Commission will for the next three months conduct a supplementary voter registration exercise....

Rishabh Pant's 100* was thrilling to watch, and an innings of the highest quality, but the Proteas have clawed their way back into contention in the third and final Test against India....

Russian air strikes in desert areas of eastern Syria have killed 11 suspected members of the Islamic State group, following deadly attacks by the jihadists, a war monitor reported Thursday....

Africa's top public health body said it was in talks with Pfizer about securing supplies of itsantiviral Covid-19 pills for the continent, the latest to join the race for a drug seen as a potential game changer in fighting the virus....

British security services have warned MPs that a suspected Chinese agent "knowingly engaged in political interference activities" inside parliament, authorities said Thursday....

Burkina Faso's revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara, who was gunned down during a coup in 1987, was shot at least seven times by assassins using tracer rounds, experts have told a long-awaited trial into his killing....

Concerns abound about the parliament fire, with insiders saying the timing was suspicious and the truth may never come out, while intelligence and security clusters are worried. The post Whispers of insurgency add up to a murky national security situation...

Eskom, parliament, constitutional court, looting could all be linked. 'We smell a rat', says Blade Nzimande The post Timeline: state security-compromising attacks appeared first on The Mail & Guardian ....

SA need 111 runs to win match and series...

The healthcare company saw a surprise board shake-up in December and has also struck a new deal with lenders...

Arrangements are being made for alternative space so that MPs can start work, house of committee chairperson Cedric Frolick says...

Over 55,000 smallholder farmers will be affected by the withdrawal as the government probes challenges in the system...

The Zondo report fleshes out some interesting details about how the process occurred...

Scientists are divided on whether Covid-19 has reached endemic stage...

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An alleged drug dealing offender will have to stay in prison for nearly three months after she was denied bail....

One woman was killed and another critically injured after a deadly shooting in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, on Thursday afternoon....

Gunmen attacked a mainly Christian village in a volatile Nigeria state, killing as many as 18 people and burning down two dozen homes, a community leader, a resident and local authorities said on Wednesday....

Lindiwe Sisulu's broadside isn't the only attack on SA's supreme law. The post Viva Rastazeneca, viva! appeared first on The Mail & Guardian ....

In a hived-off section of the Beijing airport, arrivals for next month's Winter Olympics are met by staff in white protective suits and undergo COVID-19 tests and swabs of luggage before being whisked in police-escorted buses to fe...

Manchester United striker keeps fingers crossed he can return to action...

Groups won case against Shell to halt earlier seismic study...

Soaring consumer prices in the world's leading economy has fuelled expectations of multiple rate hikes...

US airlines expects rapidly spreading Omicron to delay recovery in air travel by two months...

The Biden administration on Wednesday imposed its first sanctions over North Korea's weapons programmes following a series of North Korean missile launches, including two since last week....

Tens of thousands of French teachers walked off the job over what they say is the government's failure to adopt a coherent policy for schools to manage the pandemic, while the White House said US schools should receive the first additional rapid tests...

King Khoisan SA, who has been staging a sit-in protest at the Union Buildings for more than three years, believes his arrest is a ploy to remove him from the national key point and silence his protest....

Novak Djokovic had put the Australian Open at risk and made other tennis players "look like fools" after travelling to Australia unvaccinated, world number four Stefanos Tsitsipas said on Thursday....

The Pretoria High Court has ruled that the AARTO Act and its amendment are unconstitutional and invalid....

The outcome might have major ramifications for the autonomy of all private religious schools The post Private religious schools' beliefs in the balance as landmark case goes to court appeared first on The Mail & Guardian ....