South Africa

Two patients have been diagnosed with the South African Covid-19 variant in India. Government is not prepared to authorize boosters.

A man reportedly decapitated a 6-year-old girl after a heated confrontation with the victim's uncle.

Studies are being conducted to determine if the variant is vaccine-resistant. Travel restrictions are being imposed as WHO has named it a variant of concern along with variants like Delta.

A man who was arrested after human remains were found in his refrigerator reportedly attempted suicide to evade court.

A hungry girlfriend who was searching for food at her boyfriend's apartment reportedly found human remains inside his refrigerator.

A popular fitness trainer was gunned down by a burglar, all of which were caught on camera in South Africa because he was in the middle of an online class at the time.

A man from the Netherlands ended up getting bitten by a snout cobra in South Africa, leaving him with plenty of health complications after getting bitten at his private part.

A South African judge has sentenced a serial killer female cop to six life sentences and 95 years behind bars on Friday for the murders of her ex-flame and five relatives in a chilling scheme to cash in insurance claims.

A suspected elephant poacher was found dead on Thursday in the Kruger National Park in South Africa after he was reportedly stomped to death by an elephant.

Three young women were shot in the head in South Africa as gender violence rages in the country.

An unidentified teenager's body was reportedly discovered buried in a shallow grave with his heart and genitals missing.

A 23-year-old woman was hammered to death by his boyfriend in South Africa with the motive yet to be revealed.

A 42-year-old woman confessed to killing and cutting up his husband to pieces after she had sleepless nights being haunted by her late hubby.

South African scientists have issued a stern warning as a new coronavirus variant has been detected, noting it can be worse than the already highly transmissible Delta virus strain that's currently wreaking havoc across the globe.

A 24-year-old woman is charged with the murder of his 36-year-old boyfriend. she allegedly killed with a broken beer bottle after finding him with another woman.

A man has been sentenced for fatally shooting his partner at the school where she was working at the time of the incident.

Men in South Africa can already take multiple wives, soon women may be legally able to take multiple husbands. The proposal has been met with objections.

South African brothers are now being hunted down after disappearing with close to $3.6 billion worth of bitcoins after the value rose in April. Both are still at large.

A Siberian tiger fatally mauled a zookeeper after it climbed over an electric fence while the power was down. It also killed another male tiger by climbing into its enclosure during the incident.

A young African lesbian was allegedly raped and murdered by a man in an apparent hate crime in South Africa.

Gosiame Thamara Sithole reported that she underwent a lot of pain and had “extreme morning sickness early on, and leg pains as the bump got bigger.”

Victims and their families wept in relief as Pretoria High Court ordered the convicted man to serve five life sentences for raping multiple women.

A mother who allegedly sold her 13-year-old daughter with Down syndrome and her 15-year-old son for sexual exploitation has been arrested along with the two shopkeepers to who she sold them.

A 21-year-old Lampopo man has been sentenced for raping his 62-year-old aunt in 2017 despite claiming it was consensual sex.

Moderna claims that their booster has proven effective against the new COVID-19 strains which reportedly originated from Brazil and South Africa.

A 28-year-old woman survived when the vehicle she was riding overturned. However, she was hit by another vehicle as she was looking for her phone and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Four bodies were found burned to death while two others were discovered hanging at a forest in South Africa. A seventh victim also died from injuries at the hospital. The case is still under investigation.

South African police have been able to arrest a man suspected of the horrific murder of a woman and her teenage daughter last year.

In a bizarre ritual in South Africa, a pastor sits on the faces of devotees and farts to ‘heal’ them.

Roughly 60 people that included foreigners are still missing following attacks made by Islamic military on civilians trying to flee the Hotel Amurala.