"Taking this step will reinforce our other interventions aimed at protecting public assets and making theft of our cables and other metals less lucrative,” said Fikile Mbalula.

The mining industry gives insight into what the future of mining will look like in years to come.

China's tough zero-Covid measures remain essential to defeat the pandemic and buy time to improve vaccination rates and develop new treatments, senior health advisers wrote in recently published reports.

Residents in two North West municipalities are without electricity on Tuesday due to cable theft.

Japan's household spending fell in March for the first time in three months, though the 2.3% drop was smaller than expected, as consumers remained cautious despite some easing of Covid-19 curbs.

The World Health Organization is calling for governments to integrate comprehensive restrictions or bans on alcohol marketing as digital marketing, across borders target the young and heavy drinkers with "sophisticated" online marketing.

The sentencing proceedings in the case of Ntuthuko Shoba, who was last month found guilty of murdering Tshegofatso Pule, are expected to begin in the high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

A woman died after her policeman son allegedly savagely assaulted her and locked her in her Clermont township house, west of Durban, over the weekend.

As rising temperatures drive increasingly destructive storms and floods, Zimbabwe is rewriting the rules on how and where homes should be built to help rural communities get through the worst of the weather.

"The civic pride shown here encourages us as a city to also continue to work hard to ensure that our city is repaired and services are restored."

Streets were calm on Tuesday in the Sri Lankan commercial capital of Colombo, after a day of clashes that killed seven people and injured more than 200, police said, in violence that prompted Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to resign.

The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Monday approved a three-year, $456 million extended credit facility arrangement for Mozambique, with about $91 million available for immediate disbursement, the Fund said.

Cuban rescue workers combed through vast piles of rubble from the Hotel Saratoga in the early hours of Monday, uncovering four more bodies overnight after the hotel was hit by an explosion and bringing the death toll to at least 31, a local official ...

Paramedics in England are being trained to use 3D-printed jet suits to reach stranded casualties.

Ukraine's president said on Monday that trade at the country's ports was at a standstill and urged the international community to take immediate steps to end a Russian blockade to allow wheat shipments and prevent a global food crisis.

The sentencing proceedings of Ntuthuko Shoba, the man who was found guilty of murdering Tshegofatso Pule, are expected to begin in the high court in Johannesburg on Tuesday.

Music and singing-based activities can help improve health-related quality of life for people with long-term Covid-19 and breathlessness.

In another case in the Northern Cape, a man who raped a 12-year-old girl was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.

A court in El Salvador jailed a woman for 30 years on Monday for killing her unborn baby daughter even though she had been suffering what she said was an obstetric emergency, an organization dedicated to decriminalizing abortion said.

An unmanned Chinese cargo spacecraft successfully docked with an orbiting space station module on Tuesday in the sixth of 11 missions needed to finish building China's first space station by the end of the year.

'Warm bodyguards' and surveillance cameras rather than security gates; emergency phones that connect automatically to a control centre; fire doors that block smoke and heat and all staff trained in firefighting.'

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

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

Zimbabwe's decision to suspend bank lending in a desperate bid to arrest the rapid devaluation of its currency will worsen the economic crisis and expose borrowers to predatory loans, the country's business chamber said.

The koeksister and the koesister are 'remarkably different', a new study has found.

Ukraine updates.

Judge Lebogang Modiba has been named president of the Special Tribunal.

Last week's sting operation not only saved a young female Temminck's pangolin from the clutches of poachers, but her unborn pangopup too.

A 26-year-old man who raped a 12-year-old girl in 2016 was on Monday sentenced to a 20 years in jail by the Olifantshoek regional court in the Northern Cape on Monday.

New infections bring the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases in SA to 3,844,625.