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Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa won a second term in office, election officials said Saturday, but the opposition rejected the result of a vote that international observers said fell short of democratic standards. Mnangagwa, 80, won 52.6 percent of the ballots against 44 percent for the main challenger, Nelson Chamisa, 45, according to official results announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).

The Department of Defence has welcomed the arrest of a soldier for allegedly stealing firearms and ammunition from the Tempe Military Base.

Two suspects are due appear in court in Kwazulu Natal this week in connection with an attack that left a local government councillor dead.

Two people have died while two others sustained injuries when their vehicle lost control and overturned on the R61 road at Beyele location between Engcobo and Cofimvaba. The incident occurred during the early hours of Saturday morning at around 3am.

The NSPCA has welcomed the fine imposed on a Roodepoort pitbull breeder seven years after it laid charges of animal cruelty against him.

Eastern Cape police are investigating a dramatic cash-in-transit heist on the N2 near Komga outside East London on Thursday.

Six countries have been added to the BRICS bloc of nations, namely Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Statistics South Africa says that an estimated 1.6 million incidents of housebreaking occurred in the 2022/23 financial year, impacting 1.1 million households.

Limpopo police have condemned the brutal killing of two men in a vigilante attack on Wednesday in a rural village outside Tzaneen.