Lobby group Business for SA (B4SA) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's move to consider mandatory vaccinations, suggesting that a vaccine mandate be urgently implemented in workplaces.

The actuarial science graduate accused of murder will have to wait until Friday to have his application for a mental evaluation submitted after he failed to pay his lawyer.

The police did not have any intelligence on the July unrest before widespread looting and riots hit Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, says national commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole.

From the Huawei Free Fire Showdown week 2 qualifier to the All Stars Underground League of Legends tournament, Mettlestate brings it to the table.

Another week, and another line-up of cash cups and cash series qualifiers with South African tournament organizer African Cyber Gaming League (ACGL).

The emergence of a new Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529, named Omicron by the World Health Organisation, has rattled many people as the world battles an ongoing pandemic.

Constant Mbedzi wanted to see with her own eyes that childhood friend and neighbour Flavio Hlabangwane gets his day in court.

Each beneficiary is assigned a payment date depending on their ID number.

The Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which provides the latest unemployment figures, is being released by Stats SA on Tuesday. These are for the 3rd quarter of 2021.

Police have resumed their search for a young Johannesburg man who was caught in a rip current while swimming at a KwaZulu-Natal south coast beach on Monday.

The SA Medical Association has called for the establishment of specialised medical courts where trained medical practitioners would be called to scrutinise decisions made by doctors.

The SRC called on the university to lobby students and staff to vaccinate through persuasion rather than "coercion" which would only cause resistance towards vaccination.

With cyber attacks on the increase, the SA Insurance Association has warned consumers to exercise "extreme caution" while shopping online during the festive season.

About 300,000 children were infected with HIV in 2020, roughly one child every two minutes, Unicef said in a report on Monday.

Prof Salim Abdool Karim raised concerns over the increasing Covid-19 cases, saying indoor events should only be allowed to be attended by vaccinated people.

National police commissioner Gen Khehla Sitole and KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi are scheduled to testify on Tuesday.

A burst pipe has led to flooding at Johannesburg's Charlotte Maxeke hospital.

Impala Platinum Mine on Tuesday said three of the five missing mineworkers trapped underground after a mudslide at its Rustenburg operations have been found dead.

Masimbulele Buso, MD of the foundation, says the council was to have been set up in 2020 but this had not materialised. Buso said the foundation was given a deadline of December 2021.

Barbados ditched Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic on Tuesday with its first-ever president and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island...

Opting out of ethical duty would be the equivalent of deliberately defining yourself outside of community. Society itself would collapse if each one of us were that egotistical, argues Eusebius McKaiser.

Sex workers are facing abuse, violence and other forms of exploitation which may be economic and gender-based violence (GBV) in nature.

On a frigid Chicago night in January 2019, actor Jussie Smollett, a star on the TV drama "Empire," reported that he was the victim of a hate-motivated street attack, but police later accused him of staging the whole affair as a publicity stunt.

The list of countries that have banned SA travellers continues to grow due to the new Covid-19 variant Omicron.

RoboDog, the beloved robotic dog at Sci-Bono Discovery centre in Newtown, Johannesburg, has returned to the science centre.

Dorsey, who cofounded Twitter in 2006, is leaving after overseeing the launch of new ways to create content through newsletters or audio conversations while simultaneously serving as CEO of his payments processing company Square Inc.

In a mammoth effort, 30 rhino have been moved from SA to Rwanda in the biggest ever single translocation of the species.

Latest fuel price hike will see petrol breach R20 per litre from December, with a call for government to soften the blow by reducing levies.

Data so far suggest transmissibility of Omicron is increased and is being driven by younger people, say experts

It was a narrow escape for wildlife guide students on Sunday when a bull elephant in musth charged their vehicle.