There is cautious optimism that this year's matric exams, which begin on Wednesday, will not be as affected by Covid-19 challenges as last year.

A high-end luxury vehicle peppered with bullets rammed into a gate to business premises in La Lucia, north of Durban, on Tuesday morning.

Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020, the UN weather agency said on Monday, warning that the world was “way off track” for capping rising temperatures.

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A man who held five employees hostage at an insurance company, demanding his pension be paid out immediately, has been arrested by a police tactical response team in the Free State.

China is the world's biggest poultry producer and top producer of ducks, which act as a reservoir for flu viruses.

European gas prices have hit record highs in autumn and remained at lofty levels, prompting most EU countries to respond with emergency measures like price caps and subsidies to help trim consumer energy bills.

Sassa has warned grant recipients about a fake poster doing the rounds on social media, misleading people about applying for free clothing vouchers at PEP stores.

Armed men on motorbikes killed at least 18 people at a mosque in Niger state in northern Nigeria, two residents told Reuters on Monday.

An explosion on a bus on Monday killed at least two people in the Ugandan town of Lungala, two days after a bombing in the capital Kampala, police said.

The drama of the "Thembisa 10" babies will once again play out in the public domain when Independent Media releases its investigation into its reporting on the saga.

The NICD said it's normal to get symptoms after vaccination.This response means the immune system is responding to the vaccine in a way that will protect against the virus.

Truck drivers are obstructing the N3 toll route in both directions near Montrose.

Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 9am on Tuesday until 5am on Saturday.

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Market research conducted by outsourcing company Outsized suggested that up to 30% of future staff complements in SA businesses may be hired hands.

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Sudan's military seized power from a transitional government on Monday and soldiers killed at least three people and wounded 80 as street protests broke out against the coup.

The Estate Agency Affairs Board said it would launch an investigation into a complaint involving a Cape Town real estate company that allegedly allowed the landlord of a Cape Town CBD apartment to decline a rental applicant based on his race.

None of the country's nine provinces recorded more than 50 new Covid-19 cases in the past day, the latest NICD statistics showed.

Business for SA health working group chairperson Stavros Nicolaou said the organisation was “entirely aligned” with Busa’s position. “There’s been too much focus on individuals’ rights,” he said. “What about other people's rights?”

Load-shedding will start at 6pm on Monday instead of 9pm, embattled power utility Eskom confirmed.

Eskom needs to add thousands of megawatts to SA's power grid in the next two years, just to keep up with the country's needs, says Eskom COO Jan Oberholzer.

SA's Aspen Pharmacare is aiming to ramp up its Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing capacity to 1.3-billion doses a year by February 2024, up from a current annual output of about 250-million doses, the company's CEO said on Monday.

The first tournaments in this awesome new series kick off this Sunday, 24th October 2021.

From 7 to 17 October 2021, we saw the best Dota 2 teams in the world compete at The International 10.

Public transport by bus and bulk waste collection for businesses in the CBD were disrupted on Monday in Tshwane due to an ongoing strike by employees affiliated to the SA Municipal Workers' Union.

The department of correctional services has expressed confidence in the 211 prisoners who will be writing their matric exams this year.

Many were up in arms after claims the iconic Eyethu Cinema would soon be no more.