More than 2,000 police officers have been vaccinated through the vaccination programme, the ministry said on Wednesday.

Advocate Dali Mpofu’s arguments on behalf of former president Jacob Zuma saw him top the Twitter trends list on Tuesday.

All eyes will be on the police on Wednesday, with a Constitutional Court-imposed deadline to arrest former president Jacob Zuma by midnight still in place.

Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizeable asteroid — a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision course with Earth.

Malian authorities have sought an international arrest warrant for the son of ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, two legal sources in Mali said on Tuesday, in a case linked to the disappearance of a journalist in 2016.

Hurricane Elsa lurked off the Tampa Bay area Tuesday night, threatening the northern Gulf Coast of Florida ahead of its expected landfall on Wednesday morning, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Zimbabwe will start circulating a new 50 Zimbabwe dollar note from Wednesday, central bank governor John Mangudya said, as authorities gradually introduce higher denominations in a country still haunted by memories of ruinous hyperinflation.

Yusuf Lado had not yet learned to read or write when his school closed for fear of attacks by armed gangs, which have been snatching students across northwest Nigeria in hopes of lucrative ransom payouts.

At first, 5-year-old Msto Pushen's family thought his fever and malaise could be remedied by giving him some local herbs.

Belgium's Africa Museum, once a celebration of the country's colonial rule, will begin a multiyear process of returning stolen art to Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Belgian government said on Tuesday.

Three billionaire entrepreneurs - Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson - are each vying to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.

Russia discriminated against a transgender mother and violated her right to family life by denying her any contact with her children, Europe's top human rights court ruled on Tuesday.

Hundreds of opposition supporters marched through the streets of Ghana's capital Accra on Tuesday morning, demonstrating against what they described as rising insecurity and lawlessness since President Nana Akufo-Addo came to power in 2017.

Search and rescue teams pulled the remains of eight more victims from the ruins of a Florida condominium tower on Tuesday, able to penetrate deeper into the site after demolition of a fragile section that had remained standing.

More than 180,000 children tested positive for Covid-19 in SA since March last year.

Crimes under investigation include international public corruption, cyber fraud and money laundering.

The Western Cape high court on Tuesday struck off the roll an urgent application from Letlhogonolo Modisane Maimane to stop Parliament continuing with fsteps to appoint a new seven-member board for the National Youth Development Agency.

SA’s state-owned rail company Transnet is repairing a main line used to export coal and investigating whether recent derailments benefited suppliers.

The Apartheid Victim Families Group (AVFG) took issue with the FW de Klerk Foundation for suggesting that there was a promise of a perpetual free pass to perpetrators of crimes of the past who were not granted amnesty by the TRC.

The wine industry's court application against government's 14-day lockdown level 4 booze ban has been postponed again.

The ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19 warns that because vaccines do not kick in immediately after they are administered, people can get infected after getting the jab.

Disoufeng, an African cuisine eatery in Meadowlands, had to adapt to stay relevant to its market while also sticking to lockdown level 4 rules.

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The police ministry says it will wait for a directive from the Constitutional Court on whether to arrest former president Jacob Zuma.

Municipal officials in the Western Cape town of George are hunkering down as the town reels under a third wave of Covid-19 infections.

Former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi’s failing health may force court to try him separately from co-accused Vincent Smith

The H5N1 strain has been detected in sick and dead wild birds, CapeNature said on Tuesday - with the vulnerable great white pelican hit hard.