SA scientists have discovered chemical compounds in TB and cancer that could potentially be used for a new line of drugs to treat malaria and even kill the parasite in its infectious stage, which most available drugs don't do.

Britain's GlaxoSmithKline and German biotech firm CureVac have teamed up in a 150 million euro ($180 million) deal to develop a Covid-19 vaccine from next year that could target several variants with one shot.

A gunman shot several people before he turned the gun on himself at a petrol station in the Vaal Triangle on Tuesday evening, Gauteng police said.

China's foreign ministry on Wednesday rejected the suggestion that it supported or gave tacit consent to Monday's military coup in neighbouring Myanmar.

Former president Jacob Zuma will on Wednesday visit #FeesMustFall activist Bonginkosi Khanyile at his home in Umlazi, south of Durban, where he is currently under house arrest.

Alert members of the national traffic police thwarted the hijacking and robbery of a truck in Tshwane, says the Road Traffic Management Corporation.

South African Airways may exit administration at the end of February and a decision on an equity partner for it could be made by the end of March, the department of public enterprises said on Wednesday.

Premier Alan Winde says more vaccinators will enter the database of the health department as the Covid-19 vaccination programme expands from the first phase to the third.

The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine may be less able to protect against infection with a South African variant of the virus that has a worrying mutation, according to results of a British study released on Tuesday.

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela says Africa is "settling for being a market for other continents".

With the launch of the electronic vaccine data system on Wednesday morning, health minister Zweli Mkhize said his department would do its best to make the vaccines available.

Mexican officials have arrested a dozen police officers for suspected involvement in the massacre of 19 people in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas last month, state prosecutors said on Tuesday.

As SA bleeds jobs, four new companies are investing a combined R49m at the Coega industrial development zone in Nelson Mandela Bay and creating employment for at least 100 people.

Two Covid-19 vaccines from Chinese companies, including Sinopharm, triggered immunity against a highly transmissible coronavirus variant first found in SA, but their effect appeared weaker, a small sample lab study showed.

The SA Post Office has warned the public about e-mails meant to convince the receiver to pay money into the accounts of fraudsters.

The International Monetary Fund last week sent $350 million in cash to the Myanmar government, part of a no-strings-attached emergency aid package to help the country battle the coronavirus pandemic.

The electronic vaccine data system self-registration portal is now up and running with more than 34,000 health-care workers already registering for the vaccine.

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca has 76% efficacy against symptomatic infection for three months after a single dose, with greater effectiveness when a second is given later

US firefighters battled crumbling ice in Long Island Sound to rescue two people trapped after a truck broke through and sank in the frigid waters beneath, authorities said on Tuesday.

KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala said the province is ready to receive its share of  Covid-19 vaccines on February 14, and 91 public hospitals and community health centres have been selected as vaccination sites.

Four people, among them three elderly citizens, were found butchered to death in their homes in Zangqokweni locality in Lady Frere, Eastern Cape police said on Tuesday.

1,318,504 recoveries had now been recorded, at a recovery rate of 90%.

Five former employees of the uMngeni licensing office in Howick, near Pietermaritzburg, will have their fate determined by the court on Wednesday when they appear on graft and corruption-related charges.

The state capture inquiry will open a criminal case against former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear before it last month, and will consider further action should he fail to appear again in two weeks' time.

There was mostly good news about the country’s battle against the coronavirus on Tuesday, with health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize saying the positivity rate for new daily  infections had dropped below the 10% benchmark.

Less than 24 hours after the arrival of the first million Covid-19 vaccines on South African shores, the government’s Electronic Vaccination Data System officially went online.

Alleged Cape Town gang leader William "Red" Steven was killed in an apparent hit on Tuesday.

SA Police Union (Sapu) chair Mpho Kwinika has been given the boot from the police service.

Mpumalanga premier Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane dismissed claims on Tuesday that a family member owned a company awarded a tender to distribute Covid-19 vaccines as "fake news".

Freedom Under Law says former president Jacob Zuma has gone too far in his defiance of the Constitutional Court order that he must appear before the state capture commission.