South Africans have paid tribute to Prof Salim Abdool Karim, who has stepped down as the co-chair of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19.

When the president extended the country’s first hard lockdown, a pastor had to rely on handouts and reprieve on his rent to survive, while a salon owner was forced to retrench all 29 of her employees and close shop.

The mother of a grade 11 pupil who is being sought by gangsters told how she watched helplessly as her son was nearly killed by the group that stormed a Mpumalanga school, forcing it to shut down last week.

In the vote, 98% of trade union members present supported the motion, while 2% abstained.

Reuters reports the University of Southern California has reached a record $852m (about R12.8bn) settlement with more than 700 women who accused an ex-gynaecologist on campus of sexually abusing them as patients and the prestigious school of trying ...

Myanmar's security forces have killed more than 300 people in attempts to crush opposition to a February 1 coup, with nearly 90% of victims shot dead and a quarter of them shot in the head, according to data from an advocacy group and local media.

Prof Koleka Mlisana has been appointed to replace Prof Salim Abdool Karim as co-chair of the ministerial advisory committee (MAC) on Covid-19 after his one-year term came to an end this week.

Ntuthuko Shoba, the man accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of his eight-month pregnant lover Tshegofatso Pule, has made startling claims in his bid for bail.

A cargo ship owned by an Israeli company was damaged by a missile in the Arabian Sea on Thursday in what was suspected to be an Iranian attack, an Israeli security official told Reuters.

More than 500 rape cases have been reported to five clinics in Ethiopia's Tigray region, the UN said on Thursday, according to a Reuters report.

Reuters reports several powerful tornadoes tore through northern Alabama in the US on Thursday, killing at least five people, injuring dozens of others and destroying entire neighborhoods.

North Korea's claim on Friday that it had launched a new type of tactical short-range ballistic missile highlighted military advances by the nuclear-armed state and propelled it to the top of new US President Joe Biden's foreign policy agenda, report...

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Reuters reports that New Zealand's Catholic Church formally apologised on Friday to the survivors of abuse within the church and said its systems and culture must change.

"They can put my physical body behind prison doors. However, my spirit is free to speak against the injustice of the imprisonment," said former president Jacob Zuma

Former president Jacob Zuma says he will not subject himself to "an oppressive and unjust court system".

In this week's edition of 'Vrye Weekblad': At a time when the crime statistics paint a bleak picture of the insecure and unsafe lives led by ordinary South Africans, the police seem in more disarray than ever.

The BeyondCovid Business Survey found that 26% of SMMEs reported being forced to close their doors, 7% of them permanently.

Ndebele activist and author Thando Mahlangu says he doesn't only wait for Heritage Day to publicly demonstrate his culture, but that means he constantly has to explain why he dresses the way he does.

There have been 52,535 total fatalities recorded across SA and 1,541,563 confirmed cases since Covid-19 first came to the country.

The city of Cape Town has requested a meeting with the National Ports Authority to discuss the city's proposal to investigate and consider alternative options for a container port in the region.

Zambia announced plans on Thursday to vaccinate all people over 18, or 46% of the 18.3 million population, against Covid-19 as it prepares for a third wave of the pandemic.

Ipid says it was forced to take the body of a man who was allegedly killed by the police in Tsolo to Mthatha, and then to Makhanda, for a third postmortem.

More than two-thirds of diabetics in the Western Cape's biggest township have Covid-19 antibodies, the provincial government said on Thursday.

According to the HSRC, 81% of black South Africans were willing to give up their rights in order to stop the spread of Covid-19.

On March 25 2021, the Constitutional Court heard an application by the state capture commission for former president Jacob Zuma to be jailed for two years if he is found guilty of contempt of court. Zuma was given until March 8 to file his replying a...

In Morocco, 91% of the people surveyed were interested in receiving a Covid-19 vaccine, while Tunisia and Cameroon had the lowest interest at 35%.

Prof Hlonipha Mokoena speaks to Sunday Times reporter Tanya Farber about ways in which the South African and global psyche has changed since a pandemic swept across the globe.

A man who hit his mother over the head with a beer bottle has had his conviction and prison sentence scrapped after a slew of errors in his trial.

The National Treasury has set aside R10.3bn for vaccines over the next three years, with another R9bn available in an emergency fund.