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A suspect has been arrested for the kidnapping of a Portuguese businessman. The businessman was abducted on Tuesday, shortly after dropping off an employee in Rewlatch, south of Johannesburg.

Lando Norris kept his cool in a rain-hit and incident-packed season-opening Australian Grand Prix to edge world champion Max Verstappen.

A pair of astronauts stranded for more than nine months on the International Space Station were a step closer to returning home Sunday after a replacement crew docked with the orbital outpost. The astronauts were shown on live TV embracing and hugging their counterparts in zero gravity on the space station shortly after their SpaceX Crew Dragon arrived at 0545 GMT.

The United States' decision to expel South Africa's ambassador was "regrettable", the Office of the President said Saturday, urging "diplomatic decorum" between the two nations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was no longer welcome in the United States because he was "a race-baiting politician" who hates US President Donald Trump.

The United States is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday, accusing the envoy of hating the country and President Donald Trump. "South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country," Rubio posted on X.

Facebook parent company Meta is seeking to silence a former employee who has made scandalous allegations in a new tell-all book, obtaining a ruling to temporarily bar her from promoting the memoir or bad-mouthing the tech giant. In "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism," released on Tuesday, Sarah Wynn-Williams recounts working at the tech titan from 2011 to 2017.

The man who allegedly raped Gauteng woman Andy Kawa took to the stand in his own defence in the Gqeberha High Court on Friday.

The Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters have welcomed the Southern African Development Community’s decision to withdraw troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The decision was announced on Thursday after an extraordinary summit of the heads of state and governments of SADC to deliberate on the security situation in the DRC.

Former Bay school teacher Reinhardt Leach has been sentenced to an effective 25 years in prison for his role in the murder of Vicki Terblanche. Acting Judge Samson Dunywa delivered sentence in the Gqeberha High Court on Friday morning.