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JOHANNESBURG: Two bar shootings, one in a township close to Johannesburg and another in eastern South Africa, left 19 dead, police said on Sunday.

Two bar shootings, one in a township close to Johannesburg and another in eastern South Africa, left 19 dead, police said on Sunday.

Around the middle of 2013 a series of stories appeared in the South African press about a new phenomenon called ‘plasma gangs’, presented as the latest iteration of the country’s crime crisis. Journalists, broadcasters, police and government spokespeople, social media users and local residents shared tales online and in mainstream…

Test cricket in this English summer seems to have gone bonkers. Indian captain Jasprit Bumrah, known more for his penetrative seam bowling, smashed the batting record owned by a certain Brian Charles Lara of hitting the most runs in an over. Lara had carted South African left-arm-spinner Robin Peterson for…

Qantas will launch direct flights from Perth to Johannesburg and Jakarta as Western Australia continues its reopening after years of border closures.

People living in South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg have been subject to pungent smells in the air similar to rotten eggs. It’s not the first time citizens have complained about the smell which is related to polluted air. We asked Rebecca Garland an expert in air quality and climate change…

On the morning of Wednesday, 16 June 1976, young students from schools across Soweto set out on a march through the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. The march was to amplify their opposition to the apartheid government’s new school-language policy that would see Afrikaans replace English as their main medium…

EFF rallied with survivors of Marikana shooting in Johannesburg where a lawsuit against the president is being heard.

JOHANNESBURG: Backing David Miller to carry his confidence from the IPL to the away series against India, South Africa white-ball skipper Temba Bavuma said he is open to having a conversation with the southpaw regarding his batting position in the national T20 team.