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Judgment in the bail application of the corruption-accused leader of one of the factions of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, Mike Sandlana, will be handed down next Monday.

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi refused to continue testifying at the inquiry into South Gauteng director of prosecutions Andrew Chauke’s fitness to hold office on Monday, saying she needed to obtain proper legal counsel.

Van der Merwe was shot dead in what police have described as a cold-blooded killing in his driveway.

More than 20 years after two doctors fought to save her life, Dr Jana Campbell walked the graduation stage as a newly qualified medical doctor.

The Canadian government has warned its citizens to exercise a high degree of caution when travelling to South Africa, citing the country’s high levels of violent and petty crime.

Australia signalled plans for tougher gun laws on Monday as the country began mourning victims of its worst mass shooting in almost 30 years, in which a father and son duo killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

The men were allegedly led to believe they would participate in a short-term military school training programme in Russia.

The Economic Community of West African States rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau’s military rulers and demanded a swift return to constitutional order, warning of targeted sanctions against those obstructing the process.

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At least 21 people were killed in flash floods triggered by torrential rains on Sunday in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330km south of Rabat, Moroccan authorities said.

José Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidential election on Sunday, leveraging voter fears over rising crime and migration to steer the country in its sharpest rightward shift since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990.

Hong Kong’s high court has found media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai guilty of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.

Radiology emeritus professor Jan Lotz has obtained his PhD in applied ethics from Stellenbosch University at the age of 78.

Three people died and five others were injured after lightning struck a church service in Radimana village in Limpopo in the early hours on Sunday.

Police in Giyani, Limpopo, are investigating the murder of an 80-year-old traditional healer.