[allAfrica.com] Johannesburg -- The media has power to influence, spreads information and messages across countries and across the entire world, it is the most powerful sector that serves to inform, to influence and to entertain. As the world conclud...

[GroundUp] Villagers in the King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality have been walking at least a kilometre to fetch dirty water from a spring. Meanwhile the municipality is among several in the OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape where water operators ...

[The Conversation Africa] Gauteng is the smallest of South Africa's nine provinces but home to a quarter of the country's population. It is also the country's economic power house. These factors have contributed to it becoming the epicentre of the CO...

[The Conversation Africa] The global COVID pandemic not only heightened interest in the field of disaster risk management, but in several instances required the use and implementation of emergency laws. South Africa was no exception.

[spotlight] The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) this week gave the green light to a third dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to people who had received their second dose of the same vaccine six or more months earlier. No su...

[SAnews.gov.za] Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Ronald Lamola, says government and society must remain unapologetic in the pursuance and protection of the ideals laid out in the Constitution.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Health said the rolling out of the second dose of the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine to children got off to a good start on Thursday.

[Govt of SA] President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Sunday, 12 December 2021, deliver the eulogy at the State Memorial Service for the late Former Deputy President, Mr Frederik Willem de Klerk.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- South Africa's health minister has confirmed omicron is the most transmissible coronavirus variant yet but does not appear as severe. The minister, Dr. Joe Phaala, says previous concerns that omicron was hospitalizing more child...

[GroundUp] Residents of Ethembeni informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Cape Town have decided to demolish empty shacks themselves, to prevent them being used by criminals.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Department of Health has announced that the first recipients of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster shot will likely get it in January.

[UCT] Trailblazing his own path, choosing not to follow the crowd and being brave has brought University of Cape Town (UCT) medical student Timothy de Wet benchmark-setting academic achievement: he will graduate with a PhD this December, and is set t...

[East African] While South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) remains largely a political archrival of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, there are instances when they seemed to budge their radical stances and agree on...

[The Conversation Africa] Hybrid warfare is gaining traction globally as the preferred option for conducting malicious statecraft in the grey zone between peace and war. There is a growing international trend in attacking a nation's specific vulnerab...

[Premium Times] Indeed, closer attention to people-to-people relations is critical.

[Daily Maverick] In real life, Professor Balthazar is one of South Africa's foremost legal minds. He chooses to remain anonymous, so it doesn't interfere with his daily duties.

[VOA] Johannesburg -- As cases of COVID-19 caused by the omicron variant soar in South Africa, hospital officials monitoring the outbreak say patient reports offer compelling evidence the variant causes illness that is less severe than previous forms...

[The Conversation Africa] The planned seismic survey off South Africa's Wild Coast by energy company Shell has unleashed public outrage in the country and beyond. The survey's aim is to search for oil and gas deposits. Environmental and human rights ...

[CPJ] On October 21, 2021, in the lead up to South Africa's municipal elections on November 1, supporters of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) held a news team from the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) against their will for two...

[Daily Maverick] About 50 families of police officials are facing eviction in Cape Town because of the police service's internal housing policies. Now their partners are taking up the matter.

[Daily Maverick] Another difficult year for SA Rugby became harder with the news that chief executive Jurie Roux must pay back R37m to Stellenbosch University.

[Daily Maverick] Four rhinos were killed by poachers in a private game reserve just outside of Cape Town - highlighting government inaction in dealing with rhino conservation.

[WHO-AFRO] Brazzaville -- The Omicron variant is reaching more countries in Africa and weekly COVID-19 cases in the continent surged by 93%. However, there are signs of hope as preliminary data indicates that hospitalizations across South Africa rema...

[VOA] Johannesburg -- South Africa recorded more than 20,000 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, nearly double the number from one week earlier. The government is making a renewed push for people to get vaccinated, but so far is avoiding new lockdown me...

[SAnews.gov.za] Minister in the Presidency, Mondli Gungubele, says the importance of whistle blowers in the fight against corruption cannot be underestimated.

[SAnews.gov.za] A recent survey shows that half of the adults polled support compulsory workplace COVID-19 vaccination and a vaccine passport, while approval drops significantly by vaccination status and levels of vaccine hesitancy.

[New Zimbabwe] A ZIMBABWEAN man, Eric Mpofu (29) was arrested last Friday in Botswana while attempting to smuggle seven children into South Africa.

[New Frame] While the government fails to adhere to its own deadlines, the clock is ticking for a group of Black people who were evicted from their land in the decade before apartheid ended.

[Govt of SA] The Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, has received a new request from the African Transformation Movement (ATM) for a motion of no confidence in the President of the Republic to be conducted by way of a secret...

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Vaccines against the virus that causes Covid-19 may provide less immunity to the Omicron variant than to other major versions of Covid-19, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa.