According to some definitions, but not all, SA is officially entering the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections. Either way, two things have caught scientists by surprise: the timing of the wave and what’s driving it.

A blindfold calms the large black and white augur buzzard as two men glue a prosthetic leg into an insert on her body to replace the one that she lost.

Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Elias Mawela said early on Friday he did not yet know why an advocate representing four of the accused in the Senzo Meyiwa trial was arrested on Thursday.

Eleven Durban children were injured when a taxi transporting them to school collided with another vehicle on Friday morning.

Mzi Malunga has been appointed as Group CEO of Arena Holdings.

British trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said all women working in parliament had been subject to sexist language or inappropriate touching and advised her male colleagues to keep their hands in their pockets.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is on Friday attending the funeral of former Kenyan president Emilio Mwai Stanley Kibaki, who died on April 21 at the age of 90.

Malnourished children are flooding into the paediatric ward of the main hospital in Ethiopia's Gode city as the worst drought for 40 years has forced many families to leave their homes to search for aid.

The Ethiopian government said on Thursday that rebellious Tigrayan forces are still in the neighbouring region of Afar, despite a spokesman for the Tigrayan forces announcing their withdrawal days earlier.

Advocate Malesela Teffo was arrested inside the Pretoria high court on Thursday, apparently for failure to appear in court in Hillbrow for a separate matter.

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

Health minister Joe Phaahla will on Friday brief the media on Covid-19 and the country's vaccination programme.

News, facts, figures, interviews, views and analysis of the impact of the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape floods

The charred bodies of 15 month-old twins were identified after they died in a shack fire in Windmill Park, Boksburg.

Advocate Malesela Teffo was removed from a high court case last month after he allegedly disrespected judge Winston Msimeki in a Johannesburg high court matter. He reportedly told Msimeki he was old and should have retired.

During the Covid-19 pandemic hospices saw a spike in admissions as hospitals buckled under pressure due to rising numbers of patients.

As we navigate flu season, how can we best protect ourselves?

Ukraine updates.

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The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority has come under pressure this week to have a clear directive concerning single-use medical devices as more voices join the call for regulation of these apparatuses.

In this episode, the team breaks down The Family Table and what the viewers can expect in future

The lawyer representing four of the five men accused of murdering Bafana Bafana player Senzo Meyiwa alleged in court that the crime scene was contaminated and staged as a result of a meeting that was had with senior officials at the house.

Police minister Bheki Cele said he had nothing to do with the arrest of Malesela Teffo, the advocate who is representing four of the five men accused of murdering former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa.

City Power on Thursday said it was pleased to have recovered scores of its stolen copper cables from a scrapyard in Devland, near Soweto.

Newly appointed chief justice Raymond Zondo is talking about the state of the judiciary and various other issues.

Health minister Joe Phaahla says his department will have to pay close to R190m to fix health infrastructure that was damaged in the KwaZulu-Natal floods.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and counterpart President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau have tasked their ministers to delve deeper into various key sectors such as health, defence, mineral resources and broader diplomatic relations.

Nato says it's ready to back Kyiv for years in war against Russia.

The lawyer representing four of the five men accused of murdering Bafana Bafana player Senzo Meyiwa was arrested in the high court in Pretoria on Thursday.

The lawyer representing four of the five men accused of murdering Bafana Bafana player Senzo Meyiwa on Thursday questioned the time of his death, alleging it happened earlier than a state witness had testified.