Former cabinet minister Malusi Gigaba says deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo has instructed him to appear before the state capture commission of inquiry next month.

More than 50 intern and community service doctors who were not paid salaries for January will get their money by February 22, Gauteng's health department said on Thursday.

When a new chair of finance was appointed to the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the organisation’s vice-president allegedly tried to bribe him with R100,000 to sign off on two falsified invoices.

School is about to start and children must take off clothes and swim to cross the river.

Eastern Cape schools are going to extreme lengths to be ready for the reopening of schools on Monday because they have received little to no assistance from the provincial education department.

The Pretoria high court has set aside Nomachule "Norma" Mngoma’s arrest and found the decision to confiscate her cellphones and laptops was unlawful, saying the Hawks had acted “with malice”.

A group of South African medical practitioners has launched an urgent court application seeking wide-ranging orders to enable them to personally use, and prescribe to their patients, ivermectin.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday people who have been given full doses of the coronavirus vaccine no longer need to quarantine after an exposure to someone with the Covid-19 disease.

Malaysia will extend its free Covid-19 vaccination programme to all foreigners residing in the country, including students, refugees and undocumented migrants, the government said on Thursday.

The latest report by the presidency details the progress made in the implementation of the presidential employment stimulus.

Health authorities in Australia's Victoria state ramped up contact tracing and prepared for more mass testing of residents in Melbourne on Thursday as the number of infections in a new Covid-19 cluster linked to a quarantine hotel rose to ten.

Zimbabwe has purchased 600,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm, in addition to 200,000 China has donated, its information minister said on Wednesday, adding these were due to arrive in Zimbabwe by the start of March.

SA aims to immunise between 350,000 and 500,000 health workers with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine in an "implementation study" to further evaluate the shot, the president of the Medical Research Council said.

The cabinet has approved the extension of the national state of disaster until March 15.

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The department of water & sanitation (DWS) will open sluice gates to releaseing water from the Vaal Dam on Thursday

Vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, is critical for saving SA's economy, businesses, and livelihoods - all while boosting social development.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Wednesday night that 3,159 new Covid-19 cases had been recorded in the past 24 hours.

AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective and should be deployed widely, including in countries where the South African variant of the coronavirus may reduce its efficacy, a World Health Organisation panel said on Wednesday.

A construction worker was killed on Wednesday afternoon when a structure at a residence in Boskruin, north of Johannesburg, collapsed on him.

'The fact that they had traditional muthi with them made them believe that they were invincible.'

Police had to use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Esikhaleni in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday.

A 39-year-old information technology executive at mobile operator Cell C has been arrested for his alleged part in fraud and corruption involving about R130m.

“I heard the granny screaming in the bushy area, already inside the river asking for help.”

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The Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by a businessman arrested in SA who is contesting the lawfulness of his detention pending an extradition request by Botswana.

The Integrated Vaal River System looks set to hit the 100% mark as heavy downpours continue to fall throughout the country, with major dams within the Vaal system rapidly rising to full capacity.

A SIU investigation into the procurement of water tanks for schools has found no wrongdoing on the part of the KwaZulu-Natal education department.

Employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi has announced that the national minimum wage for each ordinary hour worked will, as of March 2021, increase from R20.76 to R21.69.

French nun Sister Andre showed no symptoms of Covid-19 and didn’t know she had tested positive for the virus.