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A businesswoman who took all her savings to start up a clothing brand to better her life and create jobs is now facing a bleak future after her goods were burnt down during the recent unrest.

It is a cold, windy Saturday morning as mechanic Benson Nkuna walks through the debris of what used to be his car repair workshop in Johannesburg, six days after it was looted and set alight amid the violent protests against the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma.

Family and friends have described veteran journalist Saint P Molakeng as a skilled writer who embodied intelligence and love for his family.

A Gauteng financial adviser who was kidnapped by four men who demanded his bitcoin expressed relief after escaping the ordeal.

As the news of looting and vandalism of business spread throughout Soweto on Sunday night last week, Thabang Madikila was alerted just before his bedtime that his small business was also not spared.

Thandi Johnson is in deep emotional anguish after seeing her life’s work destroyed by the looting that ravaged her store in Diepkloof, Soweto, last week.

The digital age has made the world smaller. Consumers can now buy things directly from the country that manufactures them. This is a convenient way of shopping but what many consumers don’t take into account is how their consumer rights might be affected, and whether they even have any rights?

Zodwa Hlongwa felt like her life had come to an end when she realised that her bed store was ransacked by hordes of people who left nothing but destruction in their wake.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) has urged South Africans to heed the call by the UN to champion for peace, vaccination equality and the struggle against poverty in order to grow the legacy of the former statesman.

Nigeria has put six states on red alert after seeing a "worrisome" rise in COVID-19 infections, a government official said, urging people to curb gatherings and hold prayers outside mosques during this week's Muslim festival Eid-el-Kabir.

Repeated attacks and the torching of a new warehouse in KwaZulu-Natal's Umhlanga area have sparked concerns of air pollution and toxic spills in the area.

During a week of unprecedented violence and chaos since the advent of democracy, South Africans tasted the “bitter fruits of a counterrevolutionary insurgency” that has been “germinating in the bowels of state capture”.