Premier David Makhura said the province will now aim for a new ambitious target of 100,000 vaccines daily to give the rollout much-needed momentum.

Thousands of notes are removed from Jerusalem's Western Wall to make room for new prayers as part of a clean-up that happens twice a year.

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday will seek to reset the tone of US-Israeli relations in their first White House meeting and find common ground on Iran despite differences on how to deal with its nuclear progr...

Uganda on Wednesday received 51 people evacuated from Afghanistan after the Taliban swept back into power, but officials said they would stay temporarily until resettled by the US and other nations.

"Mjolo (dating) slaps better when protected," reads the Limpopo department of health's latest campaign urging people to get vaccinated.

Moderna Inc said on Wednesday it has withheld supply of about 1.63 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in Japan after a report of contamination of vials with particulate matter, which it suspects involves a production line in Spain.

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Nigeria and Russia have signed a military co-operation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday.

Equipment failures at a water plant in Tshwane have led to a deterioration in the quality of water in parts of the city.

A 33-year-old man was arrested after he was found in possession of crystal meth worth more than R7m at the Lebombo border post in Mpumalanga, the Hawks said.

Comair, which operates kulula.com and British Airways in SA, announced on Wednesday that it will be back in the skies from September 1.

"The perpetrators need to pay for destroying our family."

Five classrooms were destroyed by fire in a village in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape this week, police said.

Cigarette smoking increases the risk of more severe illness from Covid-19, which could result in hospitalisation, the need for intensive care, or even death.

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Zenka Yodice from Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu-Natal, serves with the US Navy's Patrol Squadron Five, a high-tech maritime patrol and reconnaissance squadron tasked with monitoring the world’s oceans.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan discussed Afghanistan in a phone call and formation of a government, which would take into account the interests of all groups in the population, the Kremlin said on Wednesday.

A US appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction and death sentence of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine Black people at a South Carolina church in 2015, court documents showed.

A congressional committee investigating the deadly January 6 attack on the US Capitol issued its first demands for documents from government agencies on Wednesday, including communications involving some of former President Donald Trump's closest adv...

In an order issued by the court on Wednesday, Lamola made an undertaking that Chang would not be extradited until judgment in the application is handed down.

OnlyFans, an online subscription platform known for adult content, on Wednesday scrapped its planned policy that would have prohibited users from posting any material containing "sexually explicit conduct."

Police confiscated abalone worth an estimated street value of R1.2m in a vehicle on the N2 near Caledon in the Western Cape on Wednesday morning.

The royal family has been in turmoil since the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu earlier this year, with disputes over his successor being taken to court.

To date, 80,469 people have been confirmed to have died from Covid-19 related complications, latest statistics show.

The need to clean up and bolster crime intelligence - which has been "eroded and hollowed out" over the years - has never been more important and more urgent, police minister Bheki Cele said.

This will be the first time in South Africa’s post-1994 history that the JSC has made such a recommendation.

'SAA will as an initial phase operate flights from Johannesburg to Cape Town, Accra, Kinshasa, Harare, Lusaka and Maputo,' says interim CEO Thomas Kgokolo.

The report follows the circulation of a video on social media in May in which school principal Dorothy Mabaso was violently thrown out of her office, allegedly by a group of parents.