The UN says about 3,000 people died in the recent fighting in the eastern DRC

The university town has the most tech-related job vacancies in South Africa

The world’s biggest iceberg is heading straight for South Georgia

It seems ‘No place too unusual’ will soon become the motto of the Checkers Sixty60 delivery service

Brain rot? Demure? No, in the age of Trump, there can be only one word of the year: kakistocracy

The pre-eminent Afrikaans poet shares his final resting place in Paris with many other legends

The carmaker has scrapped the badge, known as ‘the growler’, that adorned the grille, bonnet and steering wheel for decades

Even great white ones will avoid a surfboard or kayak that is fitted with LED lights, a biologist says

An emperor penguin from Antarctica unexpectedly landed in Australia, a 3,400km swim from its native shores

And strangely enough, there is not a single baker from northern Italy, home of this Christmas treat, in the panettone world cup this year

A R9.7m tender for 124 pistols values each one at about R78,000

It seems the Cubans can now learn a thing or two from Eskom

To quote The Economist: ‘Far too much of this reads like the work of a schoolboy’

For 10 years the French held the world record for the most people performing the fearsome Maori war dance — but no more

Parisian council workers are revolting and Aussies bring see-through solar to South Africa

President Putin wants a South African teacher for his boys — just don’t end up in the Gulag