Eskom disconnected homes that were illegally connected to the grid in the Northern Cape this week.

While Cape Town grapples with a housing backlog, the city spends a significant amount of money fixing vandalised rental flats.

A leading hotelier has hit out at scientists for announcing the new Covid-19 variant without first establishing if vaccines are effective against it.

The Hawks have recovered hundreds of rounds of ammunition assumed to have been looted during the civil unrest in KwaZulu-Natal in July.

Australia imposed new restrictions on Saturday on people who have been to nine Southern African countries, as the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 raises concerns about another wave of the pandemic.

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SA has said that the travel ban is unjustified, and Britain did not engage with the country before introducing the flight ban.

US President Joe Biden will restrict travel to the United States US from eight Southern African countries effective Monday over concerns about a new Covid-19 variant found in SA, a senior administration official said on Friday.

The University of Witwatersrand has made it mandatory for everyone entering its campuses from next year to produce evidence of vaccination

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday designated a new Covid-19 variant detected in SA with a large number of mutations as being “of concern”, the fifth variant to be given the designation.

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has issued a warning on a structural road collapse on Kare and Fawcus Streets, in Jeppestown, Johannesburg on Friday.

"It will be necessary to take some precautions. As to exactly what nature and to what extent, that is to be discussed," said health minister Dr Joseph Phaahla.

South Africans living in the Netherlands hope that the UK's decision to place SA on its travel red list after the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant will be lifted soon so they can spend Christmas with their loved ones.

Early indications are that the Covid-19 vaccines are effective against the new variant, ministerial advisory committee member Prof Ian Sanne said.

Protesters wearing Jeffery Bezos masks railed against a planned office precinct development that will house Amazon's African headquarters

Icasa has awarded temporary spectrum licences to six companies to continue delivering faster connectivity to customers.

The number of hospital admissions for Covid-19 is rising in Gauteng in the wake of the new coronavirus variant.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in Thaba Nchu in the Free State, police said.

The SA National Editors’ Forum says the ANC’s head of elections Fikile Mbalula should immediately stop his personal attack on SABC head of news and current affairs Phatiswa Magopeni.

Fears about the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus as well as cold and rainy weather were not enough to keep shoppers away from various Gauteng malls on Black Friday.

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Street vendors in Johannesburg struggle to make sales as they compete with shopping centres on Black Friday deals.

SA’s borders remain open and the country is ready to welcome leisure tourists and business delegates from all over the world.

The SABC has charged the head of news Phathiswa Magopeni for negligence and bringing the public broadcaster into disrepute.

“The police still have to tell us who was orchestrating the violence,” Makhura said.

A 48-year-old police sergeant was shot dead and his colleague wounded during a shoot-out with a gang of robbers in Cape Town on Friday.

Handfuls of bargain hunters braved the gloomy weather and rain to take advantage of Black Friday specials in Durban.

President Cyril Ramaphosa will chair a meeting of the national coronavirus command council on Sunday to discuss the discovery of a new Covid-19 variant in SA.

Health minister Joe Phaahla said the Tshwane metro in Gauteng had registered the highest number of infections, with other parts of the province likely to see a rise in cases.

Shell has finally spoken – but only after being dumped by leading Eastern Cape supplier Express Petroleum.