No fewer than 63 people have died in a fire incident that occurred in a multi-story building in Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, emergency services said.Emergency Management Services said another 43 people were injured in the blaze, which broke out early on Thursday.The building has been evacuated, and spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi said a search and recovery operation was underway. It was likely the death toll would rise, he said, and it was not immediately...

It was a shocking experience for many South Africans as a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Johannesburg, waking up people and causing damage to some buildings, seismologists and residents say. Shaking was widely felt across the city and the region as a whole.The earthquake happened at 2:38 a.m. on Sunday and was centered just 6 kilometers south of Alberton, or roughly 16 kilometers southeast of central Johannesburg, according to seismologists.The U.S. Geo...

A woman and her Nigerian boyfriend were arrested with drugs by members of the East London Tactical Response Team (TRT) in Eastern Cape, South Africa.The provincial spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks), Captain Yolisa Mgolodela, in a statement on Wednesday, March 22, said Promise Uchechukwu, 29, and his girlfriend, Anihle Sikade, 27, were arrested on Saturday, March 18.He said after the TRT’s R75 000 drug bust, the investigation w...