The SA Liquor Brand owners Association has warned the public to avoid illicit booze after an armed robbery at the company’s production facility in Durban.

Consumer pressure, driven by environmental concerns, forced the hospitality industry to rethink the plastic straw - but another form of single-use plastic is still being served up in massive numbers daily.

A Durban community organisation set up a 20-bed treatment area on the grounds of an overwhelmed private hospital in eight hours after the facility appealed for help.

Yaganathan Pillay, commonly known as Teddy Mafia, was shot dead at his home in Shallcross on Monday.

There is a possibility of additional money laundering and fraud charges being brought against three men who were arrested on charges of dealing in precious metals and contravening the Customs Act.

Hundreds of children formed an orderly queue that snaked through Nairobi's biggest slum Kibera on Monday, waiting to enter classrooms for the first time since March, when the government closed schools after Kenya reported its first Covid-19 case.

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A Pretoria man allegedly stabbed to death an 11-year-old girl after her mother refused to hear a “message from God” he had for her.

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera has won five more years in power by securing more than 53% of votes in an election that was marred by violence, according to provisional results

Matric marking centres opened their doors on Monday as marking of the 2020 final exam papers is set to start by Thursday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to try to slow a surge in Covid-19 cases that threatens to overwhelm parts of the health system before a vaccine programme reaches a critical mass.

The EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi says he doesn't trust Bill Gates whose foundation has donated millions to coronavirus vaccine and treatment research.

Health minister Zweli Mkhize says the government is committed to rolling out vaccines with urgency to establish herd immunity against Covid-19.

Free State police are searching for a group of armed robbers after a "cross-pavement" robbery that claimed the life of a G4S security guard.

The government will appeal the Western Cape high court judgment that the ban on the trade of tobacco products during the hard lockdown - aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 - was unnecessary.

SA recorded 12,601 new cases of Covid-19, along with 434 deaths, in the past 24 hours.

One woman was killed and at least 20 others injured when a truck transporting female farmworkers crashed on the N1 in the Western Cape on Monday.

Alleged Durban gang boss Teddy Mafia is shot twice in the head, after which the two men responsible are butchered

A politician and a group of scientists have thrown their weight behind a call for an anti-parasitic drug to be studied and considered for human consumption in SA.

Suspected drug kingpin Yaganathan Pillay, commonly known as Teddy Mafia, has been shot dead.

Insurance giant Santam announced on Monday that it will start assessing claims for those of its clients who had been paying for hospitality and leisure policies, which include business interruption.

The SANParks chief pilot has come to the defence of the organisation's airman who crashed a helicopter at the Cape Town International Airport on Saturday.

A leaky steam generator has prompted Eskom to temporarily shut down one of Koeberg’s two pressurised water nuclear reactors.

The government's official Twitter account confirmed her passing on Monday afternoon

Angry members of a community in northern KwaZulu-Natal allegedly beat six men — one to death — and set two vehicles alight after a robbery at a primary school in Jozini on Sunday night.

Scientists are not fully confident that Covid-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV's political editor said on Monday, citing an unidentified scientific adviser to the British government.

A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying law, saying his mental health problems meant he would be at risk of suicide.

SA's plan to acquire an initial supply of Covid-19 vaccine by February is improbable and not feasible, say health experts.

A stowaway who hid in the undercarriage of a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to London and survived, after months in hospital, will speak about his harrowing ordeal and new life in a TV documentary on Monday.

Kenya is extending its nightly curfew to March 12 as part of measures aimed at taming the spread of Covid-19, President Uhuru Kenyatta's office said on Sunday.