Medical experts have urged the government to enforce the regulations, as this is the only tool the state has to halt the spike in daily Covid-19 infections.

“Families are not disclosing that their loved ones died of complications associated with Covid-19. They are busy serving you tea while they know they are close contacts of the deceased."

The similarities of what befell the characters in a book, discovered in Matthew’s room only recently, and what the Ingram siblings experienced seven decades later, is frightening - but for their grieving parents the nightmare is far from over.

Because of traditional and religious beliefs, some Eastern Cape families are defying regulations by exhuming the corpses of people who died after contracting the coronavirus.

The Malawian fugitive has hinted at an extension of his church’s “spiritual territories”, including declarations that millions will be “unlocked” for some followers after he prayed for them and declared 2021 “a year of miracles”.

However, the agency's CEO Busisiwe Memela says the claims are untrue - it is simply cutting off payments to people whose disabilities were temporary.

Hundreds of Chatsworth households woke to dry taps on Monday as technicians attempted to repair a water pump in Northdene.

An Eastern Cape health worker was nabbed at the weekend for allegedly attempting to steal eight boxes of personal protective equipment.

The South African Municipal Workers' Union has called for the Amathole District Municipality in Eastern Cape to be placed under administration.

Police and sea rescue officials made a grisly discovery on Sunday when a woman’s body was found floating in the surf in Sea Point, Cape Town.

Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of about 250 people who had gathered for a church service in Sebokeng Zone 7 in the Vaal area on Sunday.

The Amathole municipality will not be able to pay salaries to councillors, traditional leaders and all staff for four months beginning in February due to strained financial resources.

SA recorded 339 deaths related to Covid-19 on Sunday night, bringing the total death toll to 33,163.

Seven people were killed after a collision between a truck, a Kombi and a Pajero on the N3, Harrismith, on Sunday evening.

It has been five days since President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the NCCC to discuss the Covid-19 risk-adjusted strategy, will there be a family meeting before the end of this week?

SA Breweries has defended its decision to campaign on social media against government's alcohol ban.

Pretoria's Steve Biko Academic Hospital is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 patients, which has been noted since December, says the Gauteng health department.

Correctional services officials are ramping up efforts to contain Covid-19 after an alarming increase in positive cases at its Helderstroom facility in the Overberg town of Caledon.

The KwaZulu-Natal government has committed to working with Durban's Hilton Hotel in an attempt to ensure it reopens its doors soon.

Five men have been arrested after a 14-year-old girl was gang-raped and fatally stabbed in Port Elizabeth.

Police have arrested a suspected drug dealer for travelling on a taxi with 160kg of dagga.

When a wife was not seen the day after neighbours heard an argument the previous evening, their suspicions were aroused.

South African scientists are testing whether vaccines will be less effective against a Covid-19 variant first detected locally and hope for initial results within two weeks, a professor at the national communicable disease institute said.

Brazilian researchers have identified the concerning new coronavirus variant first discovered in SA in a woman who contracted Covid-19 for the second time, and said it was the first such case reported in the world.

Indonesia detected signals on Sunday that could come from a flight recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the sea after taking off from the capital Jakarta, as human body parts and suspected pieces of the plane were retrieved.

Federal agents arrested two more Capitol Hill rioters whose images had gone viral, of one carrying off the House speaker's lectern and another who wore horns and a fur pelt, while a top Democratic lawmaker called on mobile carriers to preserve social...

Iran will expel UN nuclear watchdog inspectors unless US sanctions are lifted by a February 21 deadline set by the hardline-dominated parliament, a lawmaker said on Saturday.

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National crime intelligence boss Lt-Gen Peter Jacobs and five other senior crime intelligence officers will have to foot their legal bills after they lost a high court bid to have their suspensions overturned.

A matric marker in KwaZulu-Natal died on Saturday after being rushed to hospital from a marking centre.