A concerned citizen found the three children in a terrible state without parental care.

Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said the sale of the Astra Zeneca vaccine ensured that SA would "not incur fruitless and wasteful expenditure".

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Africa has secured 400 million doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccines — enough to vaccinate more than half its target of 750 million people — as it edges towards the third wave of infections, the CDC said.

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ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said two boys, believed to be 15 and 16, were killed and two others were injured in a shooting on Pollock Street.

SA has recorded another positive development in the fight against Covid-19, as Sahpra approved the Johnson & Johnson vaccine - albeit with some conditions.

A number of states in Brazil are in critical condition and hospitals are overwhelmed by the Covid-19 pandemic, World Health Organisation epidemiologist Maria van Kerkhove told a briefing on Thursday.

The shooting in Orange, California, that killed four people including a 9-year-old boy on Wednesday was carried out by a 44-year-old man who knew the victims, police said on Thursday as they ruled out the shooting as a random act.

SA recorded 1,294 new Covid-19 infections and 51 fatalities in the past 24 hours, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Thursday night.

Cogta minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma had it wrong when she said on Thursday that the transporting of alcohol this weekend would be illegal.

George Floyd's girlfriend smiled through tears as she told a jury on Thursday how they first met when he offered to pray with her, less than three years before his deadly arrest, and described how they both struggled with opioid addiction.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that a race inequality review commissioned by his government, which concluded there was no longer institutional racism in Britain, was stimulating but more needed to be done to tackle the issue.

Goitse Konopi started a 100% black-owned company that produces medical cannabis for export because of his mother's illness.

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa hosted his Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi in Harare as AU Commission chair Moussa Faki Mahamat issued a statement urging action.

The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) confirmed Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine had been registered when called by Reuters and said more details would follow in a statement.

According to a preliminary SA Civil Aviation Authority report, the collective lever - responsible for up and down movements of the helicopter - suddenly shot up, causing the pilot to lose control.

A criminal charge against prominent journalist Jacques Pauw has been withdrawn.

Freedom Under Law has welcomed the ConCourt order directing Cash Paymaster Services and auditing firms KPMG and Mazars to provide documents to verify the service provider’s profits.

Gumtree SA has warned South Africans looking for last-minute Easter holiday deals to be aware of scams.

Provincial finance and economic opportunities MEC David Maynier said the Western Cape expects high numbers of travellers after a quiet festive season.

Mpumalanga’s acting NPA head, a top provincial official and a Hawks commander accused of corruption were granted bail of R20,000 each on Thursday.

A pensioner who raped a young girl in 2017 was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment by the Butterworth regional court this week.

The SA Reserve Bank has seized R19.7m from the Gupta-owned Sahara Computers’ SA bank account.

Aid workers were at the crowded port to give food to the approximately 1,200 people disembarking.

Cash Paymaster Services allegedly under-declared its profits by about R800m.

Reuters reports the companies said their vaccine was around 91% effective at preventing the disease.

The SA Union of Students on Thursday confirmed it has ended the national shutdown at universities across the country after the higher education ministry accepted some of their demands.

One of the men accused of the brutal murder of 16-year-old KwaZulu-Natal teen Andile 'Bobo' Mbuthu was shot dead in Tongaat, north of Durban, on Thursday.

The killing of three female polio vaccine providers in Afghanistan this week has forced aid agencies and the government to reassess field postings for thousands of female medics at a time when nearly 10 million Afghan children need polio drops.