Scorpions investigator Ivor Powell walked free on Monday after charges against him of drunken driving and reckless driving were struck off the roll in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court.
Hamas’s exiled political chief, Khaled Meshaal, said his Palestinian Islamist movement was ready for dialogue with its rivals in Fatah during a meeting on Monday with Syria’s foreign minister.
A man who killed centenarian Herbert (Bob) Downs by stabbing him six times in Downs’ home in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal, was jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
Electricity authorities on Monday called for action to deal with a R25-billion maintenance backlog that could further stifle economic growth.
United Nations inspectors set to examine a Syrian site for signs of a secret nuclear reactor project may find little in part because of tardy intelligence-sharing by Washington.
ANC MP Rose Sonto, also the head of the South African National Civic Organisation in the Western Cape, this week repeated unsubstantiated allegations that foreigners are buying government-subsidised houses and forcing South Africans to live in shacks.
Chinese troops are carving a third drainage channel into the unstable dam holding back a big ”quake lake”, as water levels rise and aftershocks send more debris tumbling into the water, state media reported on Monday.
The 25-year-old man arrested on Sunday for stabbing seven people to death on a Tokyo street warned that he was about to kill indiscriminately in messages to an online notice board.
A group of Khutsong pupils allegedly set a classroom and storeroom alight after dissatisfaction over the exam timetable, North West police said on Monday.
A United Nations-led peace initiative for Somalia appears to have failed, with government and opposition delegations refusing to meet face-to-face in Djibouti to try to end 18 years of conflict.