"The failure of Piet Rampedi and Independent Media to do basic fact-checking and verify grandiose statements before publication has undermined and damaged the entire journalistic profession."

Like many other twenty-somethings in India, Beverly Coutinho kept postponing buying a life insurance policy, until a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths made her confront her own mortality.

My matric year was really tough but it was an interesting journey, writes Thobeka Mkonza from Bergville in KZN, who is now studying physiotherapy at Wits University in Johannesburg.

Nothing is stopping me from getting what's mine, writes Etaine Wilson, who didn't pass matric in 2020 but is determined to continue her studies next year.

It’s different now that I'm living on my own, writes Nomathamsanqa Tamara Khwaza, currently studying at the University of the Western Cape.

Advocate Tarisai Mchuchu is protecting the next generation while doing everything in her power to make women safe.

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President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday moved the country to lockdown level 3 amid a surge of Covid-19 cases, particularly in Gauteng.

"Any ordinary person can change people's lives. Hector was a nobody but he managed to change people's lives", said Hector Pieterson's sister Antoinette Sithole.

Youth Day on Wednesday marks 45 years since the Soweto uprising against Afrikaans as a medium of instruction and the Bantu education system.

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), there were 157 in-hospital deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 58,041.

The mother of SA's alleged “Thembisa 10" decuplets, Gosiame Sithole, has accused the family of the children's dad of wanting to benefit financially from public donations after the birth.

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The Tsotetsi family said in a statement on Tuesday night that the - "Thembisa 10" did not exist - "until proven otherwise".

Twenty bodies — believed to be those of illegal miners — were discovered just outside Klerksdorp in the North West on Monday and Tuesday afternoon, police said.

'The higher the rate of infection, the higher the chance of tighter restrictions,' Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer warned on Tuesday.

Conservationists are using penguin "dummies" and fake penguin broadcasts in an attempt to convince African penguins to settle at De Hoop Nature Reserve in the southern Cape.

Egypt's highest civilian court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 senior Muslim Brotherhood figures over a 2013 sit-in which ended with security forces killing hundreds of protesters, judicial sources said.

The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a disaster that killed as many as one million people.

Zambia's former president Kenneth Kaunda, 97, is being treated for pneumonia at a military hospital in the capital Lusaka, his office said on Tuesday.

The National Conventional Arms Control Committee has been ordered to provide a list of SA arms companies that have permits to export arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

“It’s not that there are no beds — it is you have to plan to have enough beds,” says Prof Salim Abdool Karim.

As tributes poured in for the two police dogs killed in a shoot-out with suspected cop murderers on Monday, a third canine officer was recovering at an animal hospital outside Pietermaritzburg.

From June 23 to June 30, Sotheby’s will auction the 9,555 lines of source code that form the basis of the World Wide Web.

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The KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board lifted the ban on bathing at 11 beaches along the south coast on Tuesday which was implemented to accommodate the annual sardine run.

We are not taking the third wave of Covid-19 infections seriously enough, warns a doctor in Gauteng.

Turkish jeweller Mehmet Yuksel's cash register is guarded by a staunch, lion-hearted squirrel named Memocan.

Two men were due to appear in the Durban magistrate's courts on Tuesday after they were allegedly found with 888kg of electric cables belonging to Transnet and Eskom.