A Cairo court has sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to three years in jail after finding them guilty of "aiding a terrorist organisation". Egyptian Baher Mohamed, Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Australian Peter Greste were all handed three year jail sentences when the court delivered the verdict today.

38 young Swazi girls have been killed and 20 others critically injured while on their way to cut reeds for the Umhlanga Reed Dance in Swaziland. According to Eyewitness News reports say the girls were travelling in an open truck along the Mbabane Manzini highway last night when their vehicle hit a car.

A state of emergency was declared for the southern US state of Florida yesterday, as tropical storm Erika took aim at the United States after leaving a least 35 people dead on the Caribbean island of Dominica.

A colourful new bird species has fluttered its way into the birding community. This past week a striking new bird species was discovered near Mapungubwe region in the Limpopo Province.

South Africa’s Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies yesterday approved recommendations to impose a 10-percent import tariff on some Chinese steel imports. The steel industry and trade unions have pressed the government to impose tariffs on steel imports from China so as to lessen the effect of a surge in imports.

Yesterday, cabinet announced it had appointed former Eskom chief executive officer Tshediso Matona to the National Planning Commission (NPC).

69 cents less per litre is what motorists in the country will be paying for all grades of petrol from next Wednesday.

Oxford Dictionaries announced its latest additions on Wednesday, highlighting the things we were talking about in the last few months — like angry Internet commenters, gender identity and what a sweet time of day “beer o’clock” is. 

Drie mense is in Hongarye in hegtenis geneem nadat die lyke van 71 mense in ’n vragmotor gekry is.

Die LUR vir onderwys in die Noord-Kaap, Grizelda Cjiekella-Lecholo wat Donderdagaand in ‘n hospitaal in Kimberley oorlede is, was vir net meer as ‘n jaar getroud. Dit is volgens Noord-Kaap Premier Sylvia Lucus.

'n Opwekkingseenheid by die Koeberg-kragstasie word na verwagting môre afgeskakel na ’n eenheid van die nuwe Medupi-kragstasie amptelik by die nasionale netwerk gevoeg word. Netwerk24 berig Pres. Jacob Zuma koppel amptelik môre eenheid 6 van Medupi in Lephalale in Limpopo, aan die nasionale kragnetwerk

Volgens Netwerk24 blyk dit of die getal leerders wat wiskunde in matriek neem die afgelope paar jaar afgeneem het.

Die demokratiese alliansie se leier, Mmusi Maimane, toer die naweek deur Noordwes as deel van die party se nasionale Vision 2029-toer.

Dit was dom van die regering om 'n Gupta-vliegtuig te huur, gegewe die omstredenheid van die familie en vorige bevraagtekende onderhandelings tussen hulle en die regering. Dit is die opinie van die politieke ontleder, André Duvenhage.