Load-shedding has caused sewage to flow into the Durban harbour while large parts of the city and surrounds battle water disruptions.

Walter Sisulu University and North West University have been granted R3.5m to support locally made candidate vaccines, including one for Covid-19.

Growing up under the care of his grandmother in rural eastern Kenya, Dysmus Kisilu saw how hard farmers worked - and, often, how little they earned.

TimesLIVE readers expressed their opinions on whether Oscar Pistorius should remain behind bars.

Over the past two years, we’ve lost many people. Jobs have been lost. The economy has nosedived. Our lifestyles have been altered forever.

Ipsos researchers have found that at least two-thirds of stores in four hotspot provinces are selling cigarettes below the minimum collectible tax level of R21.60. That number rises to three in four stores in the Free State and the Western Cape.

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Twitter Inc added a warning label on Tuesday to an anime video shared by US Republican lawmaker Paul Gosar, depicting him swinging swords at President Joe Biden and killing Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

"Is there any lawyers that can help us sue Eskom? I want to be reimbursed for losses because they think we think this is normal. It's not," said one social media user.

Rand Water's 54-hour planned water shutdown will see reduced supply to large parts of Johannesburg next week, the city says.

The African Union and the United States see a small window of opportunity to end fighting in Ethiopia, they said on Monday

Consumers are assured that bananas on sale in SA are safe to eat, with claims of the yellow superfood "containing helicobacter imported from Somalia" denounced as fake news.

An estimated 541kg of cocaine with a street value of R200m was stolen from the Hawks' offices in Port Shepstone, KwaZulu-Natal.

Five suspected gang members were arrested on Monday in Bedfordview, east of Johannesburg, while on their way to allegedly commit robbery, police said.

New Zealand beefed up security measures at its parliament on Tuesday as thousands of people gathered to protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandates and government lockdowns aimed at controlling the pandemic.

The department of international relations and co-operation (Dirco) says its working with relevant authorities to investigate a video circulating on social media purporting to show South African students in Cuba being confronted by men in uniform.

'There was no linen in my mother’s ward and no nighties or gowns.'

What started out as a humble florist has transformed into a budding empire as a Soweto couple's tombstone business turns heads.

There is no chance of contracting Covid-19 while swimming because "the Covid-19 virus does not transmit through water while swimming".

Four of 40 infants in the newborn-care unit of a government hospital died in central India when a fire swept through the unit late on Monday, government officials said, the latest in a string of hospital fires in the country this year that have kille...

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The founder of the ‘naked hike’ concept on Monday said the hike was about much more than stripping naked. It was also about stripping down emotional scars and baggage that many carried.

A grade 3 pupil from a Free State school died on Monday after being struck by lightning.

The Black Business Council has called for Eskom boss Andre de Ruyter and the parastatal's directors to step down as load-shedding continues to leave SA in the dark.

The NICD said on Monday that only three of SA's province's recorded double-figure increases - Gauteng, with 38 cases, KwaZulu-Natal with 23 and the Western Cape with 15.

Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane faces impeachment on grounds of alleged misconduct and incompetence – based on a number of judgments in which she was heavily criticised by the courts.

Train set 1 of the Blue Train will continue operating and servicing customers in the coming months, Transnet said on Monday.

Blade Runner’s parole date has been postponed to allow a victim-offender dialogue to take place