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Shanawaaz Asghar. Picture: Kensington Community Policing Forum

CT boy (6) Shanawaaz Asghar reunited with family after abduction

  • Deputy President David Mabuza. Picture: @DDMabuza/Twitter

    Mabuza: SA has the tools to make Eskom fully functional

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    Politics
  • A crime scene in Mexico. Picture: AFP

    Truth commission faults Mexico military over 43 missing students

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  • North-Korean leader Kim Jong Un  (2011). © acceptphoto/123rf.com

    N Korea rejects Seoul's aid-for-denuclearisation offer

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  • South Africa's fullback Damian Willemse (C) runs with the ball during the Rugby Championship international rugby match between South Africa and New Zealand at Emirates Airline Park in Johannesburg on 13 August 2022. Picture: PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP

    World Cup title-holders South Africa are set to arrive in Australia on Friday for two Rugby Championship matches, seeking consistency after erratic early-season form.

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  • FILE: Russia's Daniil Medvedev celebrates after winning a match against Maxime Cressy of the US during their men's singles match on day eight of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on 24 January 2022. Picture: MICHAEL ERREY/AFP

    Top seed Medvedvev kept Denis Shapovalov winless against world number ones with a 7-5, 7-5 victory while Poland's Swiatek lost 6-3, 6-4 to 2019 Cincinnati champion Keys, who needed five match points to finish off the shock triumph.

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    No.1 Medvedev advances while No.1 Swiatek sinks in Cincy

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  • FILE: The scoreboard displays the 0-5 scoreline late on during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on 24 October 2021. Picture: Oli SCARFF / AFP

    Always one of the biggest clashes in the English football calendar, Liverpool's visit to Old Trafford has taken on even more importance after a difficult few weeks for both clubs.

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    By AFP

    Liverpool clash threatens more misery for Man Utd

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  • South Africa's Marco Jansen hits a boundary during play on day 2 of the first Test match between England and South Africa at the Lord's cricket ground in London on 18 August 2022. Picture: Adrian DENNIS / AFP

    Marco Jansen and Keshav Maharaj took South Africa into a first-innings lead of more than a hundred runs in the first Test against England at Lord's on Thursday following a fine fifty from Sarel Erwee.

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    By AFP

    South Africa's Jansen and Maharaj punish England in 1st Test

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    The Children's Health Defense (CHD), which has been a critic of COVID vaccines, immediately accused Meta of stifling its free speech rights.

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    Facebook bans major US anti-vaccine group

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  • Hadi Matar, the man accused in the attempted murder of British author Salman Rushdie, appears in court for a procedural hearing at Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York on 18 August 2022. Picture: ANGELA WEISS / AFP

    Following the attack, Rushdie was airlifted to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery. His condition remains serious but the 75-year-old has shown signs of improvement, and he has been taken off a ventilator.

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    By AFP

    Rushdie stabbing suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder

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  • This handout picture taken on 17 August 2022 by local media outlet Andrew App and released on 18 August shows a flood-inundated car and homes from the overflowing Maitai River in central Nelson on New Zealand's South Island. Picture: Sara HOLLYMAN / ANDREW APP / AFP

    The Pacific nation has been lashed by wild weather with the Nelson-Tasman district on the South Island bearing the brunt after 75 centimetres (29 inches) of rain reportedly fell over three days.

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    By AFP

    New Zealand flood recovery estimated to take 'years'

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  • Prince Buzabazi kaZwelithini. Picture: Screenshot

    Prince Buzabazi is the third born son of the late King Goodwill Zwelithini and Queen Buhle Mathe of Kwadlamahlahla Royal House in Nongoma.

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    By Veronica Mokhoali

    Senior AmaZulu royal family members announce Prince Buzabazi as preferred king

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Local

  • Deputy President David Mabuza during a question and answer session in the National Assembly on 9 December 2021. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter

    Mabuza: Load shedding a major problem, but privatising Eskom not an option

    11 hours ago
  • FILE: South African musician Tokollo Tshabalala. Picture: Facebook

    Late TKZee member Tokollo ‘Magesh’ Tshabalala to be laid to rest on Fri

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  • FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: @PublicProtector/Twitter.

    Mkhwebane: Vrede farm draft report ‘implicating politicians’ does not exist

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  • FILE: Former ANC deputy president Kgalema Mothlanthe at the party's sixth policy conference in Nasrec on Saturday, 30 July 2022. Credit: Xanderleigh Dookey-Makhaza.

    ANC’s Motlanthe: It’s all systems go for nominations for December conference

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  • FILE: The bail application for two of the four accused returns to the Nelspuit Magistrates Court on 2 September. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Hillary Gardee murder: Fourth suspect allegedly confessed on FB he acted alone

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  • FILE: Rioters loot the Jabulani Mall in Soweto on 12 July 2021. South Africa's army said Monday it was deploying troops to two provinces, including its economic hub of Johannesburg, to help police tackle deadly violence and looting as unrest sparked by the jailing of ex-president Jacob Zuma entered its fourth day. Picture: Luca Sola/AFP

    July unrest: Eight more alleged instigators arrested, bringing total to 34

    15 hours ago
  • Shanawaaz Asghar. Picture: Kensington Community Policing Forum

    Search for Shanawaaz Asgar abducted outside home in Kensington continues

    16 hours ago
  • Cosatu members marching in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday, 7 October 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News.

    Cosatu to embark on national strike as SA's economy struggles to create jobs

    16 hours ago
  • Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on 22 July 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News

    Mkhwebane wanted to avoid adverse findings in Vrede farm probe, Parly hears

    17 hours ago

Videos

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  • Through the lens: The Marikana story from the journalists who covered it

  • Marikana community: Nothing has changed since the massacre

Opinion

  • Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Commissioner Teboho Maruping, Sandton, 12 April 2022. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News

    TEBOHO MARUPING: We need business to step up and help UIF train and employ youth

    3 days ago
  • Army and police have been deployed in Marikana as more workers are expected to return to work on 14 May 2014 after months of strike. Picture: Vumani Mkhize/EWN.

    [OPINION] Worker insurgency and the future of mining: Lessons from Marikana

    a week ago
  • Local residents and anti-GBV activists gathered at the Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court on 1 August 2022 where more than 80 people, who were arrested in connection with the mass rape and robbery of eight women, made their first appearance. Picture: Bernadette Wicks/Eyewitness News

    Rape is endemic in South Africa. Why the ANC government keeps missing the mark

    9 days ago
  • Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands President Cyril Ramaphosa the final part of his report into state capture on Wednesday, 22 June 2022. Picture: GCIS

    CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: We must celebrate the achievements of South African women

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    HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Have a hobby: Even grownups have room to grow

    14 days ago
  • Delegates on day three of the ANC policy conference in Johannesburg on 31 July 2022. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter

    YANGA MALOTANA: ANC policy conference 2022: A festival of old ideas

    15 days ago

Politics

  • FILE: City of Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams. Picture: @CityTshwane/Twitter

    ANC: Williams lobbied some of our Tshwane councillors to support R26bn tender

    12 hours ago
  • Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams delivered his State of the City Address at the Tshwane House Council Chambers on 22 April 2022. Picture: @CityTshwane/Twitter

    ActionSA to lodge complaint against Tshwane Mayor Williams with PP’s office

    16 hours ago
  • FILE: Siviwe Gwarube. Picture: @Siviwe_G/Twitter

    DA switches up its parliamentary caucus, appoints Gwarube as new chief whip

    18 hours ago

Business

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    ‘It’s economic suicide!’ Turkey cuts interest rate despite 80% inflation

    8 hours ago
  • A police officer talks to a commuter at the shuttered entrance to Victoria underground tube station in London on 6 June 2022, during a 24-hour strike by nearly 4,000 London Underground station staff. Picture: Hollie Adams/AFP

    UK rail workers strike again as decades-high inflation intensifies crisis

    18 hours ago
  • An ANC flag at Luthuli House. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    FSCA warns ANC of consequences over provident fund contributions

    23 hours ago

Africa

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    26 dead as forest fires spread in north Algeria

    one day ago
  • Grain. Picture: freeimages.com

    UN ship with grain for Africa leaves Ukraine: ministry

    2 days ago
  • Supporters of Kenya's Azimio La Umoja Party (One Kenya Coalition Party) presidential candidate Raila Odinga react during a protest against the results of Kenya's general election in Kibera, Nairobi, western Kenya on 15 August 2022. Picture: GORDWIN ODHIAMBO/AFP

    Kenya on edge as election outcome sparks protests

    3 days ago

World

  • Contender to become the country's next prime minister and leader of the Conservative party British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks during a Conservative Party Hustings event in Belfast, on 17 August 2022. Picture: Paul Faith/AFP

    Poll points to victory for UK PM hopeful Truss

    18 hours ago
  • Salman Rushdie. Picture: Salman Rushdie/Facebook

    Rushdie attacker says 'surprised' author survived: NY Post

    one day ago
  • This handout picture taken on 17 August 2022 by local media outlet Andrew App and released on 18 August shows a flood-inundated car and homes from the overflowing Maitai River in central Nelson on New Zealand's South Island. Picture: Sara HOLLYMAN / ANDREW APP / AFP

    Hundreds evacuated as 'frightening' floods hit New Zealand

    one day ago

Sport

  • Rafael Nadal of Spain acknowledges the crowd as he leaves the court after losing to Borna Coric of Croatia during the Western & Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center on 17 August 2022 in Mason, Ohio. Picture: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP

    Coric crashes Nadal's Cincinnati welcome back party

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  • A view of Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium in Manchester, northwest England on 21 April 2021. Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP

    Ineos billionaire Ratcliffe 'potential buyer' of Man Utd

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  • South Africa's Kagiso Rabada (R) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of England's Zak Crawley during play on the opening day of the first Test match between England and South Africa at the Lord's cricket ground in London on 17 August 2022. Picture: Adrian DENNIS/AFP

    South Africa's Rabada and Nortje rock England in first Test

    one day ago

Lifestyle

  • FILE: If cosplay is your thing you can register and stand a chance to show off your talents on an international stage. Picture: Supplied

    Embrace your creativity with Comic Con Africa's cosplay championship

    15 hours ago
  • FILE: This handout picture made available by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivering remarks following the speech of US President's chief medical adviser during a World Health Organization (WHO) executive board meeting on 21 January 2021 in Geneva. Picture: AFP

    WHO fears repeat of vaccine inequity with monkeypox outbreak

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