In a last-ditch attempt to save himself from prison, former president Jacob Zuma will file court papers at the Constitutional Court on Friday.

Departmental acting spokesperson Musa Zondi said the advertisement promises job seekers a stipend of R5,000 per month and asks them to forward their CVs to the department.

Data has come to light that the J&J vaccine works better against the Delta variant than against the Beta variant.

China will provide funding to build new institutions and infrastructure to fight infectious diseases and improve healthcare, the state planning body said in a “five-year plan” for the sector.

Australia will halve the number of arrivals from overseas as its coronavirus hotel quarantine system creaks under pressure from outbreaks of the highly transmissible Delta variant, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday.

Despite taking a knock due to the Covid-19 pandemic last year, SA's economy is already showing “encouraging” signs of recovery, says Sars commissioner Edward Kieswetter.

A man who shot dead his ex-girlfriend in front of shocked colleagues at the school at which she was working is going to prison.

American troops on Friday vacated one of the biggest military bases in Afghanistan, said a senior US defence official as part of the peace agreement with the Taliban.

The Nigerian government refused on Thursday to disclose any details on the re-arrest of separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, amid mounting speculation over which other countries were involved in his capture after he went on the run four years ago.

The gunmen who tried to kill a Ugandan minister last month trained in an Islamist rebel camp in Democratic Republic of Congo, police said on Thursday.

Rescue-and-recovery teams resumed picking through the rubble of a partially collapsed Florida condominium complex on Thursday, nearly 15 hours after the search for scores of victims believed buried in the rubble a week ago was suspended for safety co...

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson will travel to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc's test flight on July 11, Branson's space tourism firm said on Thursday, beating out fellow aspiring billionaire astronaut Jeff Bezos.

Bill Cosby's surprise release from prison stirred concern among women's advocates that it will erode recent gains in Hollywood and beyond to hold men accountable for harassment and abuse.

Donald Trump's namesake company and longtime financial chief pleaded not guilty on Thursday to what a New York prosecutor called a "sweeping and audacious" tax fraud, arising from a probe into the former US president's business and its practices.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that obliges foreign social media giants to open offices in Russia, a document published by the government on Thursday showed, the latest move by Moscow to exert greater control over Big Tech.

Ethiopia's government urged Tigrayan rebels to join a unilateral ceasefire in their conflict on Thursday as aid agencies struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of people facing famine.

At least 10 people were killed overnight in a raid on the city of Beni in eastern Congo, witnesses said, and a civil society group and a monitoring body said Islamist militants were suspected of being behind the attack.

A worker was trapped and several people were injured on Thursday when a building under construction collapsed in Washington, fire officials said.

Former president Jacob Zuma will wear orange overalls in jail, like every other prisoner.

Johnson & Johnson said late Thursday that its single-shot Covid-19 vaccine showed strong promise against the Delta variant and other emerging strains and also provided durable protection against the infection more broadly.

Church leaders have described Gauteng health department senior official Dumisani Malele as a humble leader and teacher who loved his family.

Acting health minister Mmamoloko Kubayi will on Friday give an update on the government's Covid-19 response as well as the vaccination rollout programme.

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The Supreme Court of Appeal on Thursday overturned a high court ruling that the country’s lockdown rules were unconstitutional.