KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala said the province is not in the third wave of Covid-19 infections yet, but warned against complacency which could lead to a surge in infections.

As Covid-19 infections are again on the rise, the SA Medical Association on Monday called for the government to impose stronger lockdown regulations.

Former Blue Bulls rugby player Joseph Ntshongwana, who was sentenced in 2014 to five life terms for four murders and a rape, has failed in his bid for freedom.

About 36 people were killed and 32 wounded in clashes in Sudan’s state of South Darfur, Reuters reports.

Researchers at an eastern Congolese volcano observatory on Saturday said they could have predicted the deadly eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in May if their work had not been impeded by alleged mismanagement and embezzlement.

The government will now screen initiation school operators for criminal records and discourage the use of alcohol on the mountain, while imposing stiffer sentences on illegal operators.

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, was dead.

The economic toll from the Covid-19 pandemic has left more than 25 million people in Africa and Asia unable to afford electricity, threatening a global goal to provide power to everyone by 2030, international agencies warned on Monday.

A collision between two passenger express trains in southern Pakistan killed at least 30 people on Monday, and the death toll was likely to rise as rescuers were still trying to access several mangled coaches, a police official told media.

An Ekurhuleni family is in shock after the assassination-style murder of Teboho Makhoa by unknown men who fired 28 bullets into his vehicle.

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A male biker was killed after he lost control of his motorbike on the N4 before falling over the barrier onto Pretoria Road in Silverton on Sunday afternoon.

A former Mpumalanga police officer is set to appear in the Standerton magistrate’s court on Monday after he handed himself over to police and allegedly confessed to murdering his 34-year-old girlfriend.

A father and son died in a weekend blaze in Bethelsdorp, said Eastern Cape police.

Communicare, a non-profit organisation that manages social housing projects, expressed concern about an increase in hijackings of properties it owns.

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Police in KwaZulu-Natal have arrested four suspected members of a gang terrorising residents of Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas.

An independent probe has recommended that two staff members of the Robben Island Museum (RIM) face a disciplinary hearing.

Twelve people were injured, five of whom are in a serious condition, after a taxi crashed into a wall in Randburg, Johannesburg, on Sunday afternoon.

"The fact that Salga continues to draw a line in the negotiations, insisting on a below-inflation increase and a total freeze on workers' benefits, is indication that parties in the bargaining council are far apart from each other," says Samwu.

KwaZulu-Natal has vaccinated 360,451 people in the province and it plans to begin the vaccination of teachers from Wednesday, premier Sihle Zikalala said on Sunday.

Teboho Makhoa and his colleagues were "working tirelessly to allocate the rightful beneficiaries into their RDP houses, remove illegal occupants from occupied RDP houses and prevent future occurrences of land and house invasions in the region," said ...

A row has erupted at the Khanyisa School for the Blind in KwaDwesi, Gqeberha, as the cook allegedly keeps burning the food, which pupils refuse to eat.

Authorities are dealing with an underground phenomenon that has the potential to “totally destabilise the Zimbabwean economy,” deputy finance minister Clemence Chiduwa said

Two opposition parties in Somalia's breakaway Somaliland region won a majority of seats in the region's first parliamentary election in 16 years, the National Electoral Commission said on Sunday.

Police caught a suspect in a knife attack that killed six people and injured 14 on Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Anqing, local authorities said on Sunday.

Police in KwaZulu-Natal are investigating a case of malicious damage to property after heavy machinery was allegedly set alight at Richards Bay Minerals (RBM).

There are 3,062 people in hospital for Covid-19 in Gauteng, the health department said on Sunday.