An eyewitness has told how the door of a Cape Town train opened unexpectedly while travelling at full speed, sucking a 2-year-old girl and her older sister out.

Two trials have found that vaginal rings containing antiretroviral dapavirine could lower HIV infections in women by over 50% if used correctly.

A 51-year-old woman is expected to return to the Western Cape High Court to face charges that she kidnapped a newborn baby girl from Groote Schuur Hospital 19 years ago.

The sentencing of Czech fugitive and convicted drug dealer, Radovan Krejcir, is due to continue after a bomb scare disrupted proceedings on Monday.

President Jacob Zuma has said that David “Des” van Rooyen was the most “highly qualified” finance minister he had ever appointed.

An Uber driver who may have picked up fares during an alleged weekend killing spree was headed to court yesterday facing charges of murdering six people in the northern state of Michigan.

Chapter One: In a box buried deep in an archive in The Netherlands, Mark Sijlmans stumbled on a surprising discovery.

The Mtolos were a family in turmoil. A month after Sijlmans found the identification pass, they received news from a man that he had found their grandfather’s grave in a far-off land.

Gauteng is to prioritise early childhood development and the provision of schools for special-needs children.

Men who keep their cellphones in their pockets could be “cooking their sperm”, a study shows.

It has long been suspected that Hitler’s conquest of Europe was an attempt to compensate for a lack of potency elsewhere.

The lives of millions of jobless South Africans are being determined in a court challenge by a non-government organisation demanding changes to the law.

Bring in the army to deal with humanitarian crises, get help from overseas, take emergency measures for water and food relief.

Cosatu has called for the government to maintain or increase spending on infrastructure development to get the economy growing again.

Only five Republicans are left in the race for the White House, and frontrunner Donald Trump is hammering home the idea that he is the only one who could defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton in November.

Police arrested Uganda’s main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, for the fourth time in eight days yesterday, after an election that the US and EU have criticised and the opposition have rejected as fraudulent.

Three people were killed in gun and grenade attacks in Burundi, officials said yesterday, just hours before the arrival of UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, who is trying to end the bloodshed over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s disputed re-elec…

South African women have new hope they will not contract HIV, after two trials of vaginal rings that secrete an ARV drug protected one in three women from the virus.

The annual Mobile World Congress stops over in Barcelona today where the globe’s biggest operators will attempt to seal lucrative deals, woo influential policymakers and prove they are further ahead of the technological curve than their rivals…

Over the course of a decade, they became the most famous, well-paid and perfectly groomed group of actors on television.

Academic activities at the University of the Free State have been suspended after a video was taken that reportedly showed rugby players and supporters assaulting protesters who had disrupted a Varsity Cup game.

An alleged house robber was shot in the head, dying instantly, after a police chase in Brakpan that involved a dog unit and a helicopter.