A man allegedly attempting to hijack a Porsche Cayenne died in a shooting on Old Johannesburg Road near the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria on Thursday.

Hospitals in Brazil's northern state of Amazonas ran short of oxygen and made an urgent call for help from the US on Thursday, as Britain slapped a ban on new arrivals from Brazil over fears of a new home-grown coronavirus variant.

Uganda's opposition front-runner in this week's presidential election said on Friday he rejected early preliminary results released by the electoral commission.

France has announced that people travelling from non-EU countries will no longer be able to get into the country by presenting a negative result from a quick, readily-available Covid-19 test.

Talk about a snowball superspreader!

It appears unlikely private schools will be allowed to open earlier than public schools, as was the case last year.

South Africans will have to continue applying Covid-19 preventive measures even after the targeted 67% of the population has been vaccinated, says health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.

More than 100 temporary disability grant beneficiaries have been sleeping outside the SA Social Security Agency offices in Bellville, Cape Town since Monday.

The basic education department on Friday confirmed the reopening of schools has been postponed to February 15.

Agricultural association Free State Agriculture has asked the province's police, roads and transport department to ensure that the province's roads are repaired after flooding in the past two weeks.

The SA Revenue Service (SARS) said it was not blindsided by the sudden dysfunction of Adobe Flash on its website that caused frustration among clients who submit documents electronically.

Japan's Hiroshima prefecture said on Friday it will carry out large-scale polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing to curb the spread of coronavirus, a rarity in a nation that lags far behind many other countries in the number of tests conducted.

India will treat a domestic Covid-19 vaccine "equally" with a prominent global one, even though the homegrown drug's efficacy has not been proven, and people will have no choice which one they get, a top government vaccine official told Reuters.

Parliament's portfolio committee on health has expressed concern at the insufficient oxygen supply for Covid-19 patients in hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo.

The US Supreme Court rejected on Thursday night a lower court's ruling that the final two scheduled federal executions of President Donald Trump's administration be delayed to allow the condemned men to recover from Covid-19.

Police in the Free State have launched an investigation after the body of a woman was found on her kitchen floor with multiple stab wounds on Thursday.

A 23-year-old new mother, whose baby fell while she was giving birth, and who was allegedly assaulted by hospital security, says she is still traumatised by the ordeal.

Users of popular messaging app WhatsApp continue to seek answers regarding the extent to which it will share their data.

Losing the PGA championship, and the millions of dollars it would bring, is akin to plunging a dagger in Donald Trump's heart, and a transgression he will never forget.

Strong aftershocks could follow a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island early on Friday morning.

Covid-19 patients in need of oxygen in Zimbabwe are in a dire situation as the country’s hospitals run critically short of medical oxygen.

A rehearsal for US President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration scheduled for Sunday has been postponed because of security concerns, Politico reported late on Thursday, citing two people with knowledge of the decision.

Health experts have called on Gauteng residents to put themselves voluntarily into lockdown level five, warning that the peak of the second wave was still to come.

A Johannesburg-born woman who was conceived via in vitro fertilisation (IVF) has embarked on a mission to donate her eggs to help other women who want to be mothers to fulfil their dreams.

South Africa has recorded its three most deadly Covid-19 days on consecutive days this week, as the number of confirmed fatalities climbed on Thursday to 35,852.

Now is the time to restore the Pan Africanist Congress to its former glory, said national organiser Chris Sankara.

Nokuthula "Matu" Sikhakhane was "the epitome of a complete revolutionary", and "hated violence against women and children".

A Johannesburg woman has opened assault and negligence charges after she was allegedly assaulted at a hospital in the city just hours before she gave birth.

A JMPD officer is in hospital after being assaulted by people who were attending an "after tears" gathering of a prominent pub owner in Protea Glen, Soweto.

A police officer has been bust moving liquor in a cop van, in direct defiance of lockdown laws.